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Forbes: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets

Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 11:28

"In a rare interview, Assange tells Forbes that the release of Pentagon and State Department documents are just the beginning. His next target: big business. … Early next year, Julian Assange says, a major American bank will suddenly find itself turned inside out. Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org."

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New York Times: Failing Like a Buggy Whip Maker? Better Check Your Simile

Sunday, 10 January 2010, 15:28

"Today, any line of business facing the life-or-death challenge of a digital age will be described, sooner or later, as a contemporary buggy whip maker. But when one looks at the mechanics of the horse-and-buggy era, it quickly becomes clear that carriage makers and carriage parts makers would serve as much better case studies of attempted technological adaptation."

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Borders UK to offer cheaper e-book device within weeks

Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 13:54

Borders UK is planning to launch an e-book device cheaper than the iRex iLiad that it currently sells "within the next few weeks", the Bookseller reports quoting group chief executive Philip Downer.

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Evening Standard: Regional papers face bigger woes than just an economic downturn

Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 13:03

Roy Greenslade: "The crisis for regional papers is structural, stretching back way before this current economic slump and prior to the ubiquity of computer screens."

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 Sunday, 11 November 2007, 13:09 0

Peter Day on why his In Business podcast tops the BBC download charts: "We do not mention share prices, we shy away from the City, we pay little attention to profits or even losses. What we want to hear about is ideas."

 Sunday, 20 May 2007, 09:16 0

Is Times editor Robert Thompson being lined up to edit the WSJ if Rupert Murdoch completes the deal? And if so, is Sunday Telegraph editor Patience Wheatcroft to replace him at the Times? Times to launch in Dubai.

 Sunday, 29 April 2007, 12:12 0

"Companies are directing more efforts toward buttering up these New Media players, often feeding them exclusives that play well with their targeted audiences. And for marketers who are increasingly comfortable with spending money on blogs, advertising wit