These days, all big companies — and most medium-sized companies — are software companies. By this I mean that the company’s software (particularly custom software they’ve made) and associated data is integral to the success of their business. And: The fact that every company is a software company has implications. The most important is that software is something companies have to understan...

Oh dear, what a disappointment: This online service provided via a PFI, for filing irrelevant but compulsory company data online, doesn’t work with ordinary PCs. Disclaimer: There’s no-one “at home” on the “help” desk, outside office hours. So I may have got this wrong.

Ofer, a group owned by one of Israel's richest families, taken off blacklist of companies accused of trading with Iran

The measures, which are expected to go further than those approved by the UN Security Council, are likely to target Iran's oil and gas industries, banks and shipping interests

In an obvious response to the unilateral sanctions passed by the US Congress, French energy company TOTAL says it has stopped all gasoline sales to Iran. Those sanctions, which are much tougher than the ones imposed by the UN have yet to be signed by President Obama, by the way. I suppose he's been busy - or seeking ways to water them down.

How many British companies whom employs thousands of workers and manufacture products for exporting? Compare that economy with the service industry, the civil service and the emergency service. You see like the Tories, Labour has run down Britain manufacturing sector. While the city bankers have invested in cheap middle and Far Eastern companies. Labour in their attempt to built a feel good factor...

Anyone can submit a Form 287 to Companies House. On that form, anyone can specify any registered address for any company. I now know that from first hand experience. Using Forms 288 a, b and c, I believe that anyone can appoint anyone as a director of any company, or retire them or change their personal details such as date of birth. Companies House are not being daft. They have to accept all docu...

Simply unbelievable: The Obama administration is pressing Congress to provide an exemption from Iran sanctions to companies based in "cooperating countries," a move that likely would exempt Chinese and Russian concerns from penalties meant to discourage investment in Iran. The Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act is in a House-Senate conference committee and is expected...

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...

There has been a great deal of rhetoric from the Obama Administration and its loyal foot soldiers about how 'tough sanctions' on Iran are the way to get Iran to curb it's nuclear weapons program. Yet the president has always shied away from th eonly real sanctions that might carry some bite - on companies supplying Iran's refined fuel imports and financial institutions dealing ...