Policy Expert writer Charlotte takes a quick look at the government’s new cybercrime initiative. The government has just released data suggesting that businesses could lose £21 billion every year because of cybercrime. Cybercrime is any criminal activity relating to a computer or network. This includes criminals stealing private data that is being stored by companies [...]

What I like to see! If only all the other millionaires in the world did this… A millionaire is donating the profits from the sale of a mansion in Northumberland to charity. Brian Burnie, 64, sold Doxford Hall Hotel and its ten-acre estate for £9 million and hopes to invest the money in funding cancer [...]

It took only a few weeks of research for Romanian entrepreneur Emi Gal to decide to base his digital media firm in London, and his choice confounds a fairly enduring set of stereotypes about Britain’s global appeal. International experts agree there has been genuine progress in the country which a few decades ago was fast [...]

  ITV has sold Friends Reunited for £25m four years after buying it for £120m. The buyer is Brightsolid Limited, which is owned by DC Thomson, Dundee-based publisher of comics such as the Beano. The announcement came with the release of half-year results, which were hit by the worst decline in UK television advertising on [...]

  The ostentatious show, which started in 2006, used to offer yachts, solid gold jacuzzis and diamond-encrusted mobile phones to China’s elite. Admission was strictly by invitation only. This year, however, it will host a more modest sounding “roundtable on China’s well-being and charity”. Organisers have also dropped the word “Millionaire” from the title, which [...]

  PART of the property group owned by former Leeds United director Simon Morris has gone into administration due to the slump in the housing market, it was confirmed last night. Administrators from insolvency specialists Begbies Traynor, in Leeds, have been appointed to Leeds-based residential and commercial property firm SRM Holdings, together with 37 of [...]

ONE of TVs Secret Millionaires – who helped community projects in Salford – has been snubbed by the city’s business bosses. Invitations were sent out to 400 companies to attend a fundraising event at Loaves and Fishes, a homeless and day care centre in Pendleton. Chek Whyte, who has a construction empire, donated £20,000 to [...]

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