Downing Street refused to condemn huge bonuses for City workers saying that 'reward for good performance is not in itself a bad thing' and that it would not micro-manage the banks.

Vince Cable insisted he had not "caved in" to his Conservative colleagues as he announced the Government was considering allowing firms employing fewer than 10 people to dismiss staff without being held accountable.

Policymakers should prepare for a future in which big manufacturing business no longer exists and has been replaced by a string of ‘micro-multinational’ SMEs, according to a policy brief from an influential European think tank. More »

The Commission will next week extend a €200 million 'social' micro-financing project helping Roma communities in Bulgaria and a company manufacturing fashion handbags in the Netherlands. More »

A bit of a surprise at Prime MInister’s Questions. I expected Ed Miliband to ask about public sector pensions and the strike tomorrow. It was a bit odd when he asked about the NHS. Cameron later said that Miliband couldn’t fire off questions on the strikes subject “because he is in the pocket of the

The John F Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston chronicles the president's 1,000 days in office on the micro-blogging website Twitter.

The obvious answer is, yes. But do they? Let’s track this idea back. In 1979 Christopher Evans published “The Mighty Micro”. His bold and prophetic book looked at the impact of the microchip on society over the next 10-15 years. In the same year, 1979, I wrote my first computer program on a teletype terminal

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, it'd be difficult to find a finer example of modern democracy's total inability to control the monster it's created. The US journalist MattTaibbi has another installment on how the major US banks' rip-off is now crushing homeowners with the club of the state. On the micro level, here's how the scam worked...

Europe's freshwaters are increasingly filled with pharmaceutical residues and other micro-pollutants, which are potentially harmful to human health and the environment, according to Friedrich Barth from the European Water Partnership (EWP), an industry-backed group.

Politicos use Twitter to communicate with voters, activists and the media. It’s sociable and fashionable. It’s useful but it has its limits. And if this was Twitter I’d stop there, for the paragraph above is a 140-character summary of the popular micro-blogging service and its emerging role in politics. Having the luxury of a whole