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Vince Cable's mentoring portal was launched with fewer mentors than advertised but is gaining momentum
Government claims to have signed up tens of thousands of people to a ‘Big Society’-style business mentoring scheme have proven off the mark.
Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, launched the “new 40,000-strong network of business mentors” last week as part of the Business Department’s restructuring of business support away from the state-funded Business Link network of advisers.
Read more here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/8152155/Business-mentoring-scheme-stalls-at-launch.html
Monday, November 29
Social gets personal as new network limits friends
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A former Facebook executive aims to turn the world of social networking on its head by making it more personal. Dave Morin's new company Path has launched a photo-centric social hub that limits the number of friends you can have to 50. The aim is to enable more effective communications with people who are part of your trusted enclave. It contradicts the ethos of most social networks which includes loose acquaintances and colleagues.
Read more here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11793847
A former Facebook executive aims to turn the world of social networking on its head by making it more personal. Dave Morin's new company Path has launched a photo-centric social hub that limits the number of friends you can have to 50. The aim is to enable more effective communications with people who are part of your trusted enclave. It contradicts the ethos of most social networks which includes loose acquaintances and colleagues.
Read more here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11793847
Google vice-president issues stark internet warning
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Europe will run out of capacity for new internet addresses by early next year, potentially cutting the UK off from the rest of the world online, one of the founding fathers of the communications network warned today.
Vint Cerf, vice-president of Google and the man dubbed "the godfather of the net", said the shortage of internet address space represented a "serious boundary" to the growth of the medium.
Read more here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/11/google-vint-cerf-internet
Europe will run out of capacity for new internet addresses by early next year, potentially cutting the UK off from the rest of the world online, one of the founding fathers of the communications network warned today.
Vint Cerf, vice-president of Google and the man dubbed "the godfather of the net", said the shortage of internet address space represented a "serious boundary" to the growth of the medium.
Read more here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/11/google-vint-cerf-internet
Manufacturers can help make Britain a world leader
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Over the past decade manufacturing has demonstrated its diversity, strength and ability to deliver significant productivity and competitiveness gains - but the government must do its bit, says the manufacturers' organisation, EEF.
Read more here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8149623/Manufacturers-can-help-make-Britain-a-world-leader.html?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4cea3212d5166363,0
Over the past decade manufacturing has demonstrated its diversity, strength and ability to deliver significant productivity and competitiveness gains - but the government must do its bit, says the manufacturers' organisation, EEF.
Read more here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8149623/Manufacturers-can-help-make-Britain-a-world-leader.html?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4cea3212d5166363,0
Cyberthieves still rely on human foot soldiers
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Sitting at a computer somewhere overseas in January 2009, computer hackers went phishing. Within minutes of casting their electronic bait they caught what they were looking for: A small Michigan company where an employee unwittingly clicked on an official-looking e-mail that secretly gave cyberthieves the keys to the firm's bank account. Before company executives knew what was happening, Experi-Metal Inc., a suburban Detroit manufacturing company, was broke. Its $560,000 bank balance had been electronically scattered into bank accounts in Russia, Estonia, Scotland, Finland and around the U.S.
Read more here
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101122/ap_on_re_us/us_cybercrime_money_mules
Sitting at a computer somewhere overseas in January 2009, computer hackers went phishing. Within minutes of casting their electronic bait they caught what they were looking for: A small Michigan company where an employee unwittingly clicked on an official-looking e-mail that secretly gave cyberthieves the keys to the firm's bank account. Before company executives knew what was happening, Experi-Metal Inc., a suburban Detroit manufacturing company, was broke. Its $560,000 bank balance had been electronically scattered into bank accounts in Russia, Estonia, Scotland, Finland and around the U.S.
Read more here
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101122/ap_on_re_us/us_cybercrime_money_mules
Would you lend your money to a complete stranger?
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Peer-to-peer lenders such as Zopa are on the rise as banks tighten the screws. We look at some of the providers – and the risks involved.
There has been a huge boom in so-called peer-to-peer lending sites, which bring together those with money to lend and those that need to borrow – effectively cutting out the banks altogether.
Read more here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/savings/8150869/Would-you-lend-your-money-to-a-complete-stranger.html?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4cea82315741c0b3,0
Peer-to-peer lenders such as Zopa are on the rise as banks tighten the screws. We look at some of the providers – and the risks involved.
There has been a huge boom in so-called peer-to-peer lending sites, which bring together those with money to lend and those that need to borrow – effectively cutting out the banks altogether.
Read more here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/savings/8150869/Would-you-lend-your-money-to-a-complete-stranger.html?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4cea82315741c0b3,0
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