The splendiferous Doc Searls has an alarming article about an outfit called the Global Internet Freedom Consortium. Global Internet Freedom Consortium sell tools to break the Great Internet Wall of China. Cool. They also sell the private details of their clients who have purchased these tools to 'vetted' companies for 'personalised advertising'. Extremely un-cool... catastrophi...

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...

Eni is ready to sell its Transitgas and TENP pipelines on the market and sell its TAG pipeline to a public entity, Eni Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni said on Thursday (4 February), adding however it will hang on to transport rights in all three assets. Eni, the world's seventh-biggest listed oil company, has been the object of an EU antitrust probe since 2007 over allegations it restricted riva...

The first user reviews of China’s Green Dam PC censorship software are in. It appears to be utter shite. The true purpose of this software is to get money from the government. This software company obviously has some kind of...

The US Treasury is planning to sell its remaining shares in Citigroup, exiting its $45bn bail-out of the bank at a profit and freeing the company from government ownership

State-controlled Chinese companies apparently sought to sell arms to the Gaddafi regime for use against the rebel army despite a UN embargo against such sales, according to official documents found in a bin in Tripoli.

Many of Cadbury’s shareholders who will shortly vote to sell their company are overseas individuals and institutions. In this gobal world one group of overseas shareholders will sell to a new group of overseas shareholders. It is not quite as some present it. The Cadbury

You could raise a lot of money if you sold the future rights to tax North Sea oil for example. But no the Scots lead government of the anti-English Labour party instead plans to: 1) Sell the right to Tax the English for a crossing they have already more than paid for at Dartford. 2) Sell the English student loan book ( maybe some Welsh and Irish in there somewhere ). 3) Sell the Channel Tunnel rai...

Billions lost in deal to sell Armed Forces housing to a private equity company controlled by one of Britain's richest men.

Social media provides a conundrum for advertising. Some advertising campaigns have talkability, but rarely - if ever - fit comfortably into a social environment. Ads sell, they do not socialise. Hence the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising has commissioned a report into how the advertising industry needs to adapt its way of working in light of the social media explo...