Is it time you gave your bank the elbow?

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I never used to have a problem with my bank. After all, I banked with one of the most prestigious private banks in the world, Coutts.  The centuries old Queen's bank prides itself on customer service and I once carried one of its leather wallets embossed with its three crowns logo and had one of its uniquely sized chequebooks.

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Mobilising resources in the handheld revolution

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Royal Mail partner Barcode Warehouse is hunting for new buyers for its portable devices. But which sectors should it target?  When Ross Lee tells people that UK businesses are on the verge of a mobile revolution, he must have got used to them looking at him blankly; it doesn’t sound like the most prescient of statements.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/8279720/Mobilising-resources-in-the-handheld-revolution.html?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4d3ea62568e18e3b%2C0

Tax fraud costs the UK £15 billion a year

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The size of scams in rip-off Britain were revealed in a new government report, published today. Tax fraud is the highest individual public sector fraud loss area, according to the report published by The National Fraud Authority, the Government's organisation on counter-fraud activity.

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http://www.citywire.co.uk/money/tax-fraud-costs-the-uk-15-billion-a-year/a466567

Russian money revives Plastic Logic

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When Apple's hugely successful iPad burst onto the market in April last year, a pioneer in plastic electronics took a body blow. Halting the launch of its own thin, lightweight Que e-reader, the company Plastic Logic, based in Mountain View, California, seemed in dire straits. But last week, it all looked rather different.

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http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110124/full/news.2011.41.html