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Brad and Angelina ? money-spinning story

How to bag a bargain and sell for profit

Small-scale property developers have been doing it for years: buy a run-down house, do it up, and sell it at a decent profit. But it seems that in America, where most internet trends begin, they’re doing the same with websites.

Inside Watching the Web

Stephen King ? web publishing pioneer

Firms turn over a new leaf

Monday, 18 August 2008

We have seen the internet transform industries such as travel, retailing and property sales. Next up: the book business.

Social networking can be quicker than the phone

Benefits of being sociable

Monday, 28 July 2008

Most of us think of the web as a place where we can extend our bricks-and-mortar business. Independent News & Media, the owner of the newspaper you are reading, has demonstrated how a core media business can diversify into other spheres of commerce – see www.nicarfinder.co.uk for just one example.

Firms must play internet name game

Monday, 21 July 2008

Well, the decision by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (www.icann.org), to relax the rules on top-level domains means that the number of suffixes in web addresses (such as .com, .biz, .net or .info) will rise from 21 to perhaps thousands or even millions. Nobody yet knows.

Barack Obama, Billion dollar kitty

Power of cyberspace gets major vote of confidence

Monday, 16 June 2008

Five months ago, in early January, one of my predictions for 2008 was that this year would see the first broadband US Presidential election, with much of the action taking place on the internet.

Planet Earth: now you can drill through it

rill deep to find right blend

Wednesday, 30 January 2008

NOW and again you'll come across something on the internet that makes you think "I wish I'd done that".

Don't Google, search for it

Monday, 21 January 2008

There's a tendency these days to assume that the word 'search' is the same as the word 'Google', for most people, when looking for something, opt for the world's biggest search engine (www.google.com).

Web Watch: Retailers quids in already

Monday, 17 December 2007

My prediction of a substantial rise in online sales over the festive season is only a couple of weeks old, but already it has been overtaken by events.

Web Watch: Welcome to chicklet world

Monday, 10 December 2007

If you have been paying attention while visiting certain websites recently you may have noticed a plethora of pictorial icons at the bottom of the page.

In pictures: Doing the business

  • Paul Doherty, Managing Director of Urban Art with Des Gartland, Manager of Invest NI's North West Regional Office.
  • At the launch of PricewaterhouseCooper's seminar programme are from left, Gerard Finnegan, from PwC's Derry office, Martin O'Hanlon, Dungannon and John Hannaway from PwC Belfast.
  • Former Miss Northern Ireland and Miss UK, Lucy Evangelista welcomes the news that Chilli's Grill & Bar at Victoria Square will open its first restaurant in Northern Ireland on August 28. The restaurant seats 250 guests, serves authentic Southwest American cuisine and features Northern Ireland's first Margarita bar.

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• View From Dublin: Give us serenity to see out economic turmoil

The famous prayer attributed to the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr asks for the serenity to accept the things one cannot change, and the courage to change the things one can. Shrewdly, Dr Niebuhr also asked for the wisdom to know the difference.

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• Executive decisions vital to safeguard NI Water’s future

NORTHERN Ireland Water (NIW) is too important as a public utility to be a shuttlecock between uncertain political direction and aggressive regulatory intervention.

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• View From London: A spoonful of Reaganism can help the inflation medicine to go down

Two weeks ago we learned that retail sales in the UK fell 3.9% in June and that Tim Besley, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, voted at the last committee meeting for an interest rate increase. This combination is rather intriguing.

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