The brewer was one of only eight stocks to end in positive territory as the FTSE 100 suffered its worst run in six months, falling below the 5,000 level ...

Many investors use directors’ share trades as a signal for their own trading decisions, but managers are not always the smartest investors ...

Canberra is to demand positions be disclosed to the corporate regulator within one day of trading, but the proposals have been cautiously welcomed by the hedge fund industry ...

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1 EUR buys 1.4539 US dollar (USD) - The reference exchange rates are published both by electronic market information providers and on the ECB’s website shortly after the concertation procedure has been completed. Reference rates are published according to the same calendar as the TARGET system. ...

1. Flickr comes from Yahoo. 2. Yahoo used to be a source of innovation. These days –> not so much. 3. Twitter defines realtime. 4. Twitter doesn’t do pictures. 5. Flickr is all about pictures. 6. Flickr already supports RSS, nicely. 7. RSS lets anyone play realtime. 8. Flickr gets to do it more openly than Twitter. 9. With pictures. ...

You can’t spend any time on Twitter without geeks lusting after Google Wave . Here’s my quick take…it has as much chance catching on as RSS did. I have had a Google Wave sandbox account since late July. It’s slick to be sure. However, what I keep asking myself is this: what problem does it solve? In many ways it’s over...

I’ve used Google Reader religiously since it launched. I’m a few days away from quitting it forever. Pretty much every blog I read tweets the titles of their posts along with a link. Better yet, the people I follow retweet their favorite links, providing a very efficient way for me to discover new articles to read and publishers to follow. Sour...

If you were affected by the ho-hum availability of the FeedBlitz RSS service recently (we’re A-OK now, by the way), here’s why: Traffic jumped by a factor of 17 over this time last week and it took us too long to get to grips with it, for which I apologize. I hope this post will help explain why that happened, what we did and didn’...