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Angelina Jolie, Britney and Beyonce nude, dirty tricks and the changing face of SEO

The likes of Beyonce Knowles, Angelina Jolie and Britney Spears have in the past been victims of unscrupulous practitioners of the dark art known as search engine optimisation (SEO).
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Keith Turkington, managing director of Fluent Technology discusses a new product with a team member. Fluent is working with the DEL MAP programme

Born or made: What is the secret of success?

Developing leadership skills enables a business to grow and achieve its potential

Get the most out of your customer data

Social networking — Twitter, Facebook and so on — is one way for a business to get to know customers. It is cheap, simple and direct and its a good way to have a conversation.

Classy click — customers increasingly want a website that is easy to use

Websites are windows to woo the shoppers

Like many businesses you may have a website through which you sell your products.

Business duo with elevated ambitions

Elevated Aspects is a new business, but its owners — Andrew and Samantha Leonard — have a successful commercial track record.

Few people will make a saving by crossing the border to buy petrol

Pockets get hit as the pound heads to parity with the euro

Cross-border shopping is becoming much more expensive for people from Northern Ireland, with the pound's steady fall against the euro.

It is estimated that the total value of offshore assets is in excess of $7 trillion

Is a tax haven a safe haven?

IN the current circumstances, any mention of offshore investments is likely to elicit a fairly negative response from potential investors. People are still smarting from the Icelandic debacle, so fear is understandable.

Landlords can have rental losses if expenses are more than their rents, particularly if they have no tenants

When investing in the ‘to let’ market doesn’t always pay off

With the property market still depressed, today I am going to take a run through some of the tax issues which may be important for those people who bought investment properties to let out, or perhaps to rent, and now can’t sell them.

Evelyn Collins says people in Northern Ireland are more willing to accept people coming from minority ethnic groups than before

Ten years of fighting hard just to get on Equality terms

As businesses across Northern Ireland take part in anti-racist workplace week campaign, Evelyn Collins, chief executive of the equality commission, talks about how they are changing life

Get the most out of your customer data

Social networking — Twitter, Facebook and so on — is one way for a business to get to know customers. It is cheap, simple and direct and its a good way to have a conversation.

Valerie Meek

Name: Valerie Meek
Company: Eircom Northern Ireland
Position: New business development manager
Role: Valerie joins eircom Northern Ireland as a new business development manager with responsibility for the growth of the local enterprise market.
Track record: Valerie has over 17 years experience of the ICT/Telecoms market, acquired through the roles of account management and business development manager for a blue chip organisation and major systems integrator

Car industry should speed up

It's a Friday night; you have endured a busy week in the office and are looking forward to the weekend, which enables you to do the things your work’s diary doesn’t permit Monday to Friday.