2007 November:   Business
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Carbon(see also in Climate) last  down  top   on  back

Business call for plan on climate, BBC, 2007 Nov. 30 (firms such as Nike, Tesco and Nokia call for a legally binding international deal on climate change)
Mark Milner, UK steelmakers lobby for opt out on tougher emission limits, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 19 (Britain's steelmakers are lobbying the government and the European commission for the industry to be given special treatment within the European Union's emissions trading scheme)
David Smith, Illuminating carbon's unified energy, The Age, 2007 Nov. 19 (arguments about striving for a carbon-free economy are ignorant)
Dan Milmo, We'll fight you all the way, airlines warn EU over carbon-trading plans, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 19 (aviation industry says 170 countries oppose move; US threatens trade dispute and backs role of UN body)
Philip Hopkins, Carbon-credit forestry companies fears, The Age, 2007 Nov. 19 (planting trees to cut carbon is good science but there are risks)
Climate change: Green protectionism, Economist, 2007 Nov. 17 (a dangerous flaw in a bill to control carbon emissions; a provision that would turn the fight against climate change into a tool for protectionists)
Nick Rowley, Imperative for a coherent, global climate policy, The Age, 2007 Nov. 16 (policies must be guided by a clear, scientifically based emissions target)
Power plants' CO2 levels revealed, BBC, 2007 Nov. 14 (a website offering the first global inventory of CO2 emissions from 50,000 power stations goes online)
John Vidal, Big food companies accused of risking climate catastrophe, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 8 (rush to palm oil and biofuels threatens to release 14 billion tonnes of carbon from Indonesia's peatlands)
Climate bill's 60% emission cut, BBC, 2007 Nov. 6 (Gordon Brown commits the UK to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 60% before 2050 to help tackle climate change)
Competition and Free Trade(see also Marketing) up  down  top   on  back

Naomi Klein, Comment: Forget the green technology - the hot money is in guns, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 30 (far from saving us from catastrophe, the market is developing fortresses to shield the haves from the victims of the future)
Probe into chocolate price fixing, BBC, 2007 Nov. 28 (Canadian regulators launch an investigation into allegations of price fixing in the chocolate bar market)
Price-fixing glass makers fined, BBC, 2007 Nov. 28 (four big makers of flat glass are fined a total of €486.9m for illegally co-ordinating price rises)
Bloomberg, Philips is targeted in investigation, IHT, 2007 Nov. 21 (Philips Electronics, the largest maker of consumer electronics in Europe, said Wednesday that it had been included in investigations into possible anti-competitive activities in the glass-tube display industry)
Will Hutton, Comment: The worst crisis I've seen in 30 years, Observer, 2007 Nov. 4 (the latest financial downturn is the final nail in the coffin of the conservative free-market world-view)
Competition in retailing: A Tesco in every town, Economist, 2007 Nov. 3 (Britain's small shopkeepers rue the day they called for a probe of retailing)
Consumerism(see also Social and in Social) up  down  top   on  back

PA, Elderly worried about money at Christmas, Observer, 2007 Nov. 25 (a quarter of older people are worried about the pressure to spend money over Christmas, a survey shows)
Sam Jones, How to do without almost everything (except a pet rabbit), Guardian, 2007 Nov. 24 (small band of 'compacters' is taking the fight against consumerism to a new level)
Susan Stellin, Catering to the plugged-in customer, IHT, 2007 Nov. 20 (hotels and airports are gradually catching on to the fact that mobile workers need more help getting their jobs done on the road)
Brooks Barnes, Web-era Amway makes Hollywood debut, IHT, 2007 Nov. 20 (the owners of Amway are pouring millions of dollars into a new online store called Fanista; the Web site, set to make its public debut this week, will initially sell DVDs and CDs)
Veronica Horwell, Buy, buy to all that, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 10 (Horwell turns gloomy after reading a history of women's devotion to temples of expenditure, The Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping)
John Feeney, Humanity is the greatest challenge, BBC, 2007 Nov. 5 (it is time to take radical action to curb rising population and consumption levels, or face "unspeakable consequences")
Copyright and Trademarks(see also in Internet and Technology) up  down  top   on  back

AP, Publishers seek to block Internet search engines from additional content, IHT, 2007 Nov. 29 (seeking greater control of their content, leading news organizations and other publishers said Thursday they would push for a revision to technology that controls access to their content by search engines)
Victor Keegan, Comment: How long should copyright last?, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 29 (in the internet age we should be shortening copyright not extending it)
Stuart Jeffries, Weekend: Inside the tomb of tomes, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 24 (this warehouse is being built to house the books and journals that no one wants; with the British Library's UK collection growing at a rate of 12.5km of shelf space a year, is the notion of the copyright library really sustainable?)
Prince sites face legal threats, BBC, 2007 Nov. 7 (pop star Prince is demanding that his song lyrics and photographs are removed from fan-run websites)
Mark Ward, Copyright law scuppers fan film, BBC, 2007 Nov. 6 (a copyright row means that one of the most ambitious fan films ever made may never be shown to an audience thanks to German copyright law)
Michael Geist, The day the music died, BBC, 2007 Nov. 2 (internet law professor Geist looks at a copyright clash that could re-write the laws of online life)
Charles Arthur, The realpolitik of selling hard drives to store films, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 1 (retailers advertise drives in terms of how many movies they can store, but it's illegal to backup a DVD film)
Cory Doctorow, Digital rights, digital wrongs: Policing the net will never work, Guardian, 2007 Oct. 30 (it's all the rage these days: crackpot proposals to automatically police the internet for copyright violations, stopping them even before they occur)
Economics and Policy(see also Money) up  down  top   on  back

Heather Connon, America flirts with dreaded D-word, Observer, 2007 Nov. 25 (it would be wise to plan for a slowdown, then pray that policy-makers can head off a slide)
Ross Gittins, Surpluses need to be spent on infrastructure that, in turn, provide services, The Age, 2007 Nov. 24 (there are myths about surpluses, and then there's the truth)
Economics focus: A new fashion in modelling, Economist, 2007 Nov. 24 (contemporary economists continue to pursue the perfect economic forecast despite abundant evidence that it does not, and cannot, exist)
California: Sliding into the sea, Economist, 2007 Nov. 24 (the state's economy looks even more wobbly than the rest of America's)
Kenneth Davidson, ALP falls for Coalition's 'myths', The Age, 2007 Nov. 5 (some "economic myths" have become mainstream; a paper released today aims to explode them)
William Keegan, There are lies and damned lies —but don't blame the statisticians, Observer, 2007 Nov. 4 (there is an inverse relationship, in the case of most economic statistics, between the speed with which they are produced (and there is great demand for speed) and the quality of the statistics)
Environment(see also in Health and Science) up  down  top   on  back

Ian Austen, Canada to announce vast new national park, IHT, 2007 Nov. 22 (it will be one of North America's largest conservation areas, about 11.5 times the size of Yellowstone Park, and ease pressure from the mining and energy industries on an area that is important for wildlife, if sparsely populated by humans)
Japanese whalers hunt humpbacks, BBC, 2007 Nov. 18 (a Japanese whaling fleet sets sail with the aim of harpooning humpback whales for the first time in decades)
Peter Weekes, Chips down for mill, The Age, 2007 Nov. 18 (opponents of the controversial Gunns pulp mill have been thrown a lifeline with financial analysts predicting that the mill will not be economically viable due to plummeting pulp prices)
James Kirby, Gunns might yet find the miller's tale has an unhappy ending, The Age, 2007 Nov. 18 (the commercial logic of Tasmania's new pulp mill is crumbling by the day)
Luke Harding, Environmental disaster as Russian tanker sinks, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 12 (1,300 tonnes oil flows into Crimea strait after storm; habitat may take 10 years to recover say experts)
Mining in Alaska: Fishing for molybdenum, Economist, 2007 Nov. 10 (two mining companies, Northern Dynasty Minerals of Vancouver and Anglo American, based in London, are working together to develop claims in south-western Alaska; if they succeed, the largest open-pit mine in North America, two miles wide and nearly 2,000 feet deep, will appear in the middle of this wilderness)
Elisabeth Rosenthal, In backyard Europe, fading biodiversity, IHT, 2007 Nov. 5 (as farms have become more commercialized in recent decades and have moved toward growing one to two high-yield crops, the number of varieties globally is quickly diminishing, erasing plant genes at the very moment in history when they may be most needed)
Andrew Darby, Rush is on to harvest an untapped bounty, The Age, 2007 Nov. 5 (industrial fishing companies are gearing up for the rush to exploit the great untapped seafood: Antarctic krill)
Abby Goodenough, Effort to save Florida Everglades falters as funds dwindle, IHT, 2007 Nov. 2 (seven years into what was supposed to be a four-decade, $8 billion effort to reverse generations of destruction, federal financing has slowed to a trickle)
Fraud and Corruption(see also in Internet and Social) up  down  top   on  back

Martin Wainwright, Lay preacher gets 10 years after admitting £51m VAT fraud, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 30 (a lay preacher was jailed for 10 years yesterday for setting up phantom trading companies in a classic 'carousel fraud')
Clare Dyer, Bribery law reform could tackle wrongdoing in high places, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 29 (new proposals could make it easier to prosecute in cases such as the corruption investigation into BAE Systems)
Nelson D Schwartz and Lowell Bergman, A U.S. law takes aim at global corruption, IHT, 2007 Nov. 25 (while the investigation of BAE's business practices has followed a circuitous path in Britain, it has recently gained independent momentum in the United States, where the Justice Department is investigating the company)
Corruption: Remembrance of things past, Economist, 2007 Nov. 24 (federal investigators arrested two middle managers from the DC Office of Tax and Revenue on charges that they stole $16m by means of fake tax refunds from the District government; after subsequent inquiries, officials now say the total is closer to $30m)
Mark Ward, How firms and fraudsters deal in data, BBC, 2007 Nov. 21 (what firms and fraudsters do with your data)
David Hencke, Auditors condemn rushed MoD sale that turned civil servants into multimillionaires, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 21 (directors of QinetiQ made huge profits in three years)
Patrick Wintour, Lost in the post—25 million at risk after data discs go missing, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 21 (mass fraud fear as personal details of 7m families mislaid; Inland Revenue chief resigns following 'substantial failure'; Tories claim blunder is 'nail in coffin' of ID cards scheme)
Marc Pallisco, Colliers departure sparks green political storm, The Age, 2007 Nov. 21 (Colliers real estate executives are accused of forcing agency's joint founder to resign as chairman because he paid for advertisements criticising Prime Minister John Howard)
Jesse Hogan, Trujillo's man gets the nod at Sensis, The Age, 2007 Nov. 10 (another of Telstra's "global" searches for executive talent has ended in Colorado, the home of the telco's chief executive, Sol Trujillo)
Mark Forbes, Timber baron acquitted over illegal logging, The Age, 2007 Nov. 7 (in the latest and most significant case in a string of controversial acquittals, an Indonesian timber baron has walked away from illegal logging charges, prompting an outcry from environmentalists)
Carter Dougherty, He's been fired, but Latvian corruption chief hangs on, IHT, 2007 Nov. 6 (progress in fighting corruption comes slowly, if at all, across much of Central and Eastern Europe, and organizations like the Latvian bureau seem to be under constant attack)
Globalism and Free Trade(see also in International) up  down  top   on  back

EU-India talks promise trade deal, BBC, 2007 Nov. 30 (the European Union and India hope to conclude a free trade deal during the course of 2008)
David Gow, Mandelson causes a storm in China, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 26 (EU trade commissioner accuses the authorities of failing to tackle a 'tidal wave' of counterfeit goods and turning a blind eye to the theft of European firms' innovations and patents)
Mark Landler and Julia Werdigier, New worry in Europe over credit crisis, IHT, 2007 Nov. 23 (the announcement Thursday by two major French banks that they would buy out a bond insurer owned by a Paris-based subsidiary underscored the extent to which the American mortgage crisis continued to infect Europe's financial system in new and unexpected places)
Felicity Lawrence and Ian Griffiths, Revealed: how multinational companies avoid the taxman, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 6 (elaborate structures to move profits offshore; international investigation into banana firms)
Chinese companies: Trojan dragons, Economist, 2007 Nov. 3 (Chinese firms are taking a new approach to foreign acquisitions)
Victor Keegan, Virtual China looks for real benefits, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 1 (anyone who still thinks that virtual worlds are the plaything of geeks should look at what is happening in China)
Management up  down  top   on  back

Richard Norton-Taylor, UK's biggest arms projects are £3.5bn over budget, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 30 (report highlights cost overruns in biggest deals; naval projects are mainly to blame, says audit office)
Alex Williams, Newest guru advises tech workers to pull the plug on information sources, IHT, 2007 Nov. 12 (after reading Timothy Ferriss's recent best seller, The 4-Hour Workweek, Jason Hoffman, a founder of Joyent, which designs Web-based software for small businesses, urged his employees to cut out the instant-messaging and swear off multitasking)
Simon Caulkin, Targets can seriously damage your health, Observer, 2007 Nov. 4 (targets, claim their defenders, are simple, they provide focus, and they work; yes, they do; unfortunately, these are also their fatal flaws; the simplicity is a delusion)
Business books: Kicking ass in an unflat world, Economist, 2007 Nov. 3 (what the latest crop of business books reveals about trends in management)
John M Broder, Role playing a nightmare scenario for U.S. energy policy, IHT, 2007 Nov. 2 (two bipartisan business-supported groups sponsored an elaborately staged role-playing game called Oil ShockWave that tried to dramatize the effect of American dependence on oil imported from unstable and unfriendly parts of the world)
John Sterlicchi, Sexist attitudes prevail in Silicon Valley, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 1 (Silicon Valley's male techies have lambasted a report that reveals Apple and many other leading hi-tech companies have no women in senior management roles or on the board)
Lucy Ward and John Carvel, Best ideas come from work teams mixing men and women, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 1 (teams of workers come up with the most innovative ideas if they are made up of even proportions of men and women)
Manufacturing up  down  top   on  back

The car industry: Not for the faint-hearted, Economist, 2007 Nov. 24 (why Tata Motors is favourite to buy Jaguar and Land Rover)
AP, U.S. automakers seek to overrule California program on tailpipe emissions, IHT, 2007 Nov. 20 (the largest U.S. car companies have sought to persuade a federal judge to toss out California's strict tailpipe emissions standards, which they say could wreck the American auto market and lead to job losses at auto plants and dealerships nationwide)
Peter Wilson, Cleaning up in 'fab world', BBC, 2007 Nov. 15 (the silicon factories where a speck of dust is a big problem; the process of making silicon chips is as complex as the chips themselves)
David Rood, Recall ordered for toy that turns into drug, The Age, 2007 Nov. 7 (a popular children's toy found to contain a chemical that the human body turns into the party drug "fantasy", or "GHB", has been banned in three states and is being recalled by its Melbourne creator)
Marketing(see also Competition and in Internet) up  down  top   on  back

Scott Malone, GE uses training to appeal to its customers, IHT, 2007 Nov. 26 (this class was made up of executives from airlines, oil and gas producers and power companies, all of them GE customers from Southeast Asia)
Charlie Brooker, Nespresso isn't just coffee . . . it's an aspirational lifestyle marketing exercise by desperate lunatics, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 26 (Nestlé's magazine is as hateful as Tatler but with an overbearing and whorish emphasis on coffee pods bunged in for good measure)
Denis Campbell and Rowan Walker, Revealed: The 'hard-sell' cosmetic surgery clinics, Observer, 2007 Nov. 25 (the country's booming cosmetic surgery industry is under fire this weekend for using illegal advertisements, defying its own rules with 'hard-sell' tactics and facing allegations that it is neglecting patient safety in its pursuit of profits)
Rebecca Smithers, Knives, whips and a slap in the face: how complaints to the ad watchdog doubled, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 19 (MFI campaign described as offensive and shocking, part of an overall rise amid concerns over youth violence)
Rebecca Smithers, New rules fail to stop children seeing adverts for unhealthy food on TV, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 12 (children still bombarded with television advertisements for junk food, in spite of rules aimed at tackling obesity)
Denis Campbell, Call for price of drink to double to cut bingeing, Observer, 2007 Nov. 11 (a new coalition of medical experts will demand tough action this week on the sale of alcohol, including a 10 per cent rise in taxation and a ban on advertising drink products on TV before 9pm)
Ray Cassin, Follow your dreams, forget the debt, The Age, 2007 Nov. 10 (NAB's new ad campaign uses mountain-climbing metaphors to distract us from our mounting debt)
Conversational marketing: Word of mouse, Economist, 2007 Nov. 10 (will Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites transform advertising?)
AFP, Google eyes new ad frontier in computer games, The Age, 2007 Nov. 9 (Google says it is testing ways to deliver ads in computer games)
Nigeria sues over child smokers, BBC, 2007 Nov. 7 (Nigeria's government says it is suing three cigarette firms for $40bn compensation for promoting underage smoking)
AP, Google gatecrashes the mobile market, The Age, 2007 Nov. 6 (Google says it is developing a free mobile phone software package so it can more easily peddle ads and services to people who aren't in front of a PC)
Prostitution and advertising: Indecent proposals, Economist, 2007 Nov. 3 (a spat over classified ads exposes Britain's uneasy stance on prostitution)
Norimitsu Onishi, Food scandals taint Japan's sweet success, The Age, 2007 Nov. 1 (it was supposed to be a celebratory year for Akafuku, a confectioner that had been selling bean-jam sweets here since 1707)
Media and Television(see also in Technology) up  down  top   on  back

Andrew Stroehlein, Al-Jazeera: the new force in providing quality foreign news, The Age, 2007 Nov. 30 (given constant public criticism about the media in the United States, in particular the decline in television news standards, it is surprising that al-Jazeera English has had such a hard time breaking into the market)
Martin Brunt, How terror has changed the crime beat, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 26 (the days of mates in the 'underworld', piss-ups with coppers and a staple diet of rape, murder and armed robbery are over for today's crime reporters, writes Sky News's Brunt)
Maggie Brown, Has the death of mainstream TV been exaggerated?, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 26 (the traditional channels may be under renewed pressure, but their digital rivals still have a long way to go before they can replicate their enormous pulling power with viewers)
Peter Fincham, What is television for?, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 26 (after an annus horribilis, Fincham asks his peers the big question facing the industry)
Matthew Ricketson, Finding their own voice, The Age, 2007 Nov. 24 (more young people are shunning traditional media; does this suggest a generation obsessed with 'me, me, me' or one to be praised for embracing the possibilities of the new?)
Caitlin Fitzsimmons, 'Marginalised working class' a focus for BBC2, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 21 (the "white season" will explore issues around immigration and the "complex mix of feelings that has led some white working-class people to feel marginalised", the channel said as it unveiled its schedules yesterday)
Lorna Edwards, Children's crusader, The Age, 2007 Nov. 17 (her scathing attack on the media and reality television has attracted criticism; but this actor—and mother—is standing firm)
Lorna Edwards, Reality TV equals child abuse, says Hazelhurst, The Age, 2007 Nov. 15 (actress Noni Hazelhurst has made a scathing assessment of Australian film and television, accusing the industry of destroying children's imaginations and prematurely sexualising them)
Jasper Gerard, Comment: And you thought that the age of spin was no more, Observer, 2007 Nov. 11 (the culture of spin didn't actually die; it merely mutated; and against a bacterium this infectious, the public is defenceless. Even the media have succumbed)
Carol Nader, Experts warn of health 'tsunami', The Age, 2007 Nov. 9 (keeping people well and out of hospital is a long-term money saver; waiting for them to become ill and then patching them up is more expensive; but politically, public hospital failings attract far more attention from politicians—and the media)
Matthew Ricketson, Free speech 'threatened by government secrecy', The Age, 2007 Nov. 6 (free speech and the media's ability to report are under threat from governments gripped by secrecy and spin, according to the first national audit of free speech in Australia)
Madeleine Bunting, Comment: The Iraq war has become a disaster that we have chosen to forget, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 5 (with the media subdued, governments have not been held to account for the biggest political calamity of our time)
Product placement: In the picture, Economist, 2007 Nov. 3 (lifting restrictions on product placement will boost Europe's TV industry)
Daniel Ziffer, Interactive plots wooing young TV viewers, The Age, 2007 Nov. 2 (interactive online serials that allow anyone to discuss the plot, write to the characters and vote on their fate are stealing away young viewers and threatening the model that has supported free-to-air television for 50 years)
Nick Carr, McLuhan would blow hot and cool about today's internet, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 1 (Marshall McLuhan's theories about 'electric media' have new resonance, but he may have blown hot and cold over the internet)
Money and Banking(see also Economics and Wealth) up  down  top   on  back

Larry Elliott, Why markets should lie down in a dark room, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 28 (the idea that a 15% fall in house prices will be good for consumer spending, economic growth, corporate profits or the balance sheets of the financial sector seems a bit far-fetched)
Frank Walker, It'll cost a pretty penny, The Age, 2007 Nov. 25 (a rare Australian pre-decimal coin has cracked the $1 million mark for the first time)
The dollar: Time to break free, Economist, 2007 Nov. 24 (the Middle East's oil exporters should end their currencies' peg to the dollar)
Larry Elliott, Government borrowing soars, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 20 (the City was tonight calling on Alistair Darling to raise taxes or cut spending after news of an unexpected deterioration in the government's coffers raised fears of a looming £40bn hole in the public finances)
Stephen Moss, The missing millions, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 19 (we stash them, lose them—or even throw them away; but what we don't do is use them; is it time to scrap coppers?)
Mobile banking: A bank in every pocket?, Economist, 2007 Nov. 17 (banking on mobile phones holds promise, provided regulators are willing to be flexible)
Karina Robinson, Islamic finance is seeing spectacular growth, IHT, 2007 Nov. 5 (over the past year, Shariah-compliant assets have grown almost 30 percent, to more than $500.5 billion)
Jason Dowling and Peter Weekes, Crash is coming, warns top investor, The Age, 2007 Nov. 4 (the man responsible for investing $41 billion of the State's money has warned mum-and-dad investors to prepare for a massive sharemarket crash)
David Hirst, Memo Mr President: get tough on the black-gold cowboys, The Age, 2007 Nov. 1 (opportunists, not Middle-Eastern turmoil or peak oil, are driving up oil prices)
Outsourcing(see also Pay and in Social) up  down  top   on  back

Anand Giridharadas, Indian entrepreneurs leave outsourcing for firms of their own, IHT, 2007 Nov. 30 (some of the best minds in India, trained by leading global companies like Oracle, Yahoo and Microsoft, are slipping out of the back office to build start-ups; and Bangalore, the outsourcing capital, now looks like an incipient Silicon Valley of the East)
Ian Griffiths, Revealed: massive hole in Northern Rock's assets, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 23 (investigation shows £53bn of mortgages owned by off shore company)
Marc Moncrief, NAB offshore threat to 400 staff, The Age, 2007 Nov. 20 (National Australia Bank is considering proposals that threaten about 400 information technology employees in a program causing angst throughout the bank's 2700 IT workforce)
Pay and Wealth(see also Outsourcing and in Social) up  down  top   on  back

Leon Gettler, CEOs 72% better off on 21st century pay rocket, The Age, 2007 Nov. 21 (Macquarie Bank chief executive Allan Moss is always held up as Exhibit A in the debate about the chasm between ordinary wage earners, who are being urged to show restraint, and excesses for executives)
Nicola Clark, Saudi billionaire buys Airbus superjumbo, IHT, 2007 Nov. 12 (Saudi Arabia may be the biggest oil producing nation, but oil is not the main source of Prince Alwaleed's fortune, which Forbes magazine estimates to be $20.3 billion)
London's super-rich: Where do the millions go?, Economist, 2007 Nov. 10 (according to Stonehage, a firm of financial advisers to London's multi-millionaires, it is costing the capital's many plutocrats much more to maintain their standard of living than it used to)
Nick Mathiason, Jersey is $491bn tax haven, Observer, 2007 Nov. 4 (new US report will heighten alarm over UK's failure to stop the super-rich avoiding tax by funnelling assets to the Channel Islands)
Privatisation and Private Equity up  down  top   on  back

Publishing and Newspapers up  down  top   on  back

Janette Owen, Search for the perfect headline, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 19 (as newspapers integrate their web and press productions, is the art of the subeditor threatened by the need for internet-friendly keywords?)
Peter Preston, Comment: Man of the People was not to blame, Observer, 2007 Nov. 25 (when things go wrong with newspaper sales (and profits), editors are blamed)
Andrew Woodcock, Rupert reigns over his tabloids, The Age, 2007 Nov. 25 (Rupert Murdoch has told a parliamentary inquiry he has "editorial control" over which party his British tabloids, The Sun and The News of the World, back in an election and what line the papers take on Europe)
Nigeria: Bleak publishing houses, Economist, 2007 Nov. 24 (award-winning novelists have more readers abroad than at home)
Victor Keegan, Vanity publishing is now more attractive, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 22 (the printing press liberated books from the monopoly of the monasteries, now self-publishing is freeing us from the power of publishers)
Danny Bradbury, Can Amazon wean us off paper?, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 22 (Amazon hopes its ebook reader Kindle will do for books what the iPod did for music)
Peter Preston, Press and broadcasting: The price to pay for being free, Observer, 2007 Nov. 18 (after 12 glorious years, it's time for something of a reality check; examine the 'global newspaper' beloved of the Guinness Book of Records; over 23.1 million read it each morning; it is published in 70 editions, 23 countries and 19 languages)
Peter Preston, Press and broadcasting: Guardian tots up US win, Observer, 2007 Nov. 18 (and far beyond any immediate borders, in the digital space of America where newspaper websites compete for unique users today and possible salvation tomorrow?)
Robert Booth, Publisher's plan could spell the end of the literary hardback, Guardian, 2007 Nov. 17 (Picador intends to move to paperback for launches, and others could well follow)
Matthew Ricketson, Stories behind the news, The Age, 2007 Nov. 17 (from tapped phone conversations to leaked emails, this week's intense focus on journalistic practice left many within the industry feeling that the tables had been turned)
Matthew Ricketson, Starving journalists reach for any lifeline, The Age, 2007 Nov. 12 (the rules about using on and off the record information are even murkier now)
Social(see also Consumerism) up   first    top   on  back

Oxfam calls for drug firm action, BBC, 2007 Nov. 27 (drug firms miss out on a potential market by failing to make drugs affordable for the world's poor, Oxfam says)
Diana B Henriques and Andrew W Lehren, Megachurches add local economy to their mission, IHT, 2007 Nov. 23 (an analysis by The New York Times of the online public records of just over 1,300 giant churches shows that their business interests are as varied as basketball schools, aviation subsidiaries, investment partnerships and a limousine service)
Marc Pallisco, Colliers departure sparks green political storm, The Age, 2007 Nov. 21 (Colliers real estate executives are accused of forcing agency's joint founder to resign as chairman because he paid for advertisements criticising Prime Minister John Howard)