Not content with 500 million users online, here comes the first Facebook phone

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First a website that Mark Zuckerberg created for Harvard students in 2004 became a giant social networking site with over 500 million active users.

Then the story of its creation inspired an internationally acclaimed film, The Social Network. Now a mobile phone manufacturer is set to launch the first 'Facebook phone'. INQ Mobile today revealed two new Android smartphones for the UK market that are designed expressly for 18-28 year old Facebook users: the INQ Cloud Touch and the INQ Cloud Q.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1355690/Not-content-500-million-users-online-comes-Facebook-phone.html

Manufacturing ‘underestimated’, says Green

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Most people in the UK “grossly underestimate” the value to the economy of manufacturing, according to Lord Green, the new trade minister.

“If you ask people at a dinner party the number of vehicles that the UK makes a year, they are likely to say it’s about 100,000 when in reality it’s almost 15 times bigger,” says the former HSBC chairman, who took up his government job last month.

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/480e86fe-37a1-11e0-b91a-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss&ftcamp=crm/email/2011214/nbe/UKBusiness/product#axzz1E2yQVBn8

Welcome to the information age – 174 newspapers a day

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If you think that you are suffering from information overload then you may be right – a new study shows everyone is bombarded by the equivalent of 174 newspapers of data a day.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8316534/Welcome-to-the-information-age-174-newspapers-a-day.html?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4d54ed1f9992e118%2C0

Internet advertising to face stricter regulation

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Until now, The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has only been able to monitor traditional advertising found on billboards, in newspapers or on television.

But from March 1, its powers will extend to regulating commercial websites and businesses who promote their products using social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/8320228/Internet-advertising-to-face-stricter-regulation.html?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4d5683d1ae76d1aa%2C0

MT Expert's Ten Top Tips: How to win contracts

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Mouth-watering contracts needn't be out of reach of SMEs. It's just a case of planning, learning and having the right attitude, says bid consultant Emma Jaques...

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http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/bulletin/mtdailybulletin/article/1053297/mt-experts-ten-top-tips-win-contracts/

Is the Big Society Bank a small-state bank?

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The government's new 66-page strategy document for its Big Society Bank and growing the so-called "social investment market", which has been published today, raises almost as many questions as it answers.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2011/02/is_the_big_society_bank_a_smal.html