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Millionaire gets six years for ‘complex’ £4m fraud

Posted on: Saturday, May 10th, 2008 in: News

A fraudster who cheated the tax man of up to £4m through a lucrative empire trading on the work of airport staff was jailed yesterday for six years.Multi-millionaire Mazher Raja, 50, launched a “sustained, carefully-planned and determined fraud” on the Inland Revenue stretching from at least 1993 to 2001, London’s Southwark Crown Court heard.
In a […]

Russia Is Ahead of India in Millionaire Number

Posted on: Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 in: Entrepreneur, News

The difficulties of global economy haven’t affected the increase in millionaire number. What’s more, millionaires of emerging nations have joined the race.
 
The developed economies yet lead in number of millionaires. The United States is ahead of others (3.1 million) and it is followed by Japan, Britain and Germany. At the same time, the emerging nations […]

Big Pharma defends patent power

Posted on: Sunday, May 4th, 2008 in: News

 
You might think the real battles between drugs companies are fought by scientists in laboratories, competing with each other to get new treatments to people who need them.
The truth is that lawyers and the pilots of aircraft have also got big roles to play.
The pilots because when the patent on a drug made by a […]

Popular Web Business Purchased By Entrepreneur

Posted on: Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 in: News

Small Business Branding, a site aimed at those interested in marketing and building small business, announced it’s under new ownership. Vera Raposo, long time brick and mortar business owner turned internet entrpreneur purchased the popular site from Yaro Starak for an undisclosed amount.
“I’m thrilled to be a part of the Small Business Branding website community. […]

Mickey Mouse woos Russian kids

Posted on: Thursday, May 1st, 2008 in: News

 
Disney has launched a Russian website to introduce the country’s children to the likes of Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh and Jack Sparrow.
The site will have details of Disney movies, TV shows, computer games, as well as the company’s worldwide theme parks and where to buy Disney products.
Similar sites have been launched in the US, […]

Paul Hawkin’s Hawk-Eye given thumbs down

Posted on: Thursday, May 1st, 2008 in: Entrepreneur, News

 
He’s not the first to be on the receiving end of an unpopular decision in football, but Hawkins received a crushing blow last month when the International FA Board (IFAB) out an end to his hopes of introducing Hawk-Eye Technology into the Premiership.
Already used in tennis and cricket to determine whether a ball is out […]

Recycling firm dreams of nappy days

Posted on: Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 in: News

 
We do it with bottles and paper, cardboards and cans.
But when it comes to recycling disposable nappies - and used ones at that - there is undoubtedly a whiff of suspicion.
Nevertheless, a Canadian firm has unveiled plans for a UK first - a processing plant to do just that.
Knowaste - which already recycles hundreds of […]

UK’s super-rich ‘getting richer’

Posted on: Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 in: News

 
The UK’s super-rich have never been richer, according to this year’s Sunday Times Rich List.
The top 1,000 richest people in the country now have more than £400bn between them, it estimates - up almost £53bn in the last year.
Forty of the top 75 are foreign. Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal is top again with £27.7bn, […]

London 2012 on ‘ambush’ alert

Posted on: Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in: News

Love them or loath them, you can’t ignore them, and ambush marketing campaigns are bound to be as big a part of the 2012 Olympics in London as they are around any other major sporting event.
And the man tasked with the responsibility of keeping the multi-billion pound sponsors of the event happy, candidly admits that […]

British lorry driver swindles millionaire

Posted on: Monday, April 28th, 2008 in: News

 
Dutch millionaire businessman Marcel Boekhorn, the man behind free newspaper De Pers, has been swindled out of almost €1.5m by a bankrupt English lorry driver, the Volkskrant reports on Friday.
The paper says Boekhorn was fooled into thinking he could buy London’s Ritz hotel from its owners, the secretive billionaire Barclay brothers, for a bargain price.
The […]