For those companies and organisations still asking “if” they should be developing their social media nouse, they should now - if not sooner - be asking “when”. Why? Just ask your children. Annual research from ChildWise shows that the social media “future” is taking place now, and kids are at the forefront of it. Findings reveal

It Used To Be That Working For The Government Was Steady Work, Although No One Was Getting Rich. To Get Rich You Needed To Work In The Private Sector Or Be A Business Owner. That was then, and this is now. With private sector companies scared to death. With private sector companies scared to death about the future, the hiring of new employees and jobs creation seems to be a thing of the past. On t...

More from the Telegraph: The confidential medical records of millions of NHS patients could be handed over to private companies under controversial plans being drawn up by ministers. The Government is considering giving firms access to a massive computer database which will contain the records of almost every man, woman and child in England. The information is a goldmine for private companies, who...

"Wariness of private companies’ involvement in healthcare is a British obsession and an irrational one," proclaimed the Times in an editorial yesterday, accompanying a lengthy article by Camilla Cavendish on the NHS. Cavendish’s piece began with an almost delirious appraisal of Circle Health, the private healthcare operator that is 50% owned by its staff.

  “Hungrier, less complacent and more willing to embrace new media” for business. That’s just one view why the US’s fastest-growing private companies - The Inc.500 - are giving the Fortune 500 a beating in terms of social media uptake, including use of blogs, online video and podcasting. The findings come from what The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Coalition’s £56m a day bill to private companies Woowee, eh? The coalition has contracted private companies at the rate of nearly £56.6m a day since January, according to a Guardian analysis of government documents that casts new light on the extent of Whitehall’s reliance on firms to do its work. Ooooh, my! The Treasury spent

The Home office has been allowing private companies access to the DNA database for commercial reasons, according to research by the Liberal Democrats. The information, revealed in response to Freedom of Information requests, shows how:  Up to May of this year, the Home Office approved 25 applications for research projects using DNA profiles from the DNA database  5 are from private companies - Thr...

In other words Democrat and liberal Policy. Social Security in dept, Medicare in dept, Medicaid in dept, all to the tune of 54Trillion Dollars. Fannie Mae and Freddie mack two companies that violate the laws of what makes our country work. Both were the joining of a privet company run by government rules and worst of all dealing in what else but the financial sector. In Private Enterprise you run ...

The role of private companies in the NHS is likely to be restrained while patients' rights are bolstered under expert plans to rescue the Government's health reforms.

There are many, particularly on the right of the political spectrum, who seem to think that there is some sort of unwritten law that states all nationalised companies makes losses, are badly run and cannot compete with the private sector. In truth, there is no reason why this must be so, and with good management a nationalised company could be run just as well as a private company with the profits...