The fact that more women are choosing to start their own business is ‘really good news’, says the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
According to the organisation, the number of women running their own start-ups is ‘increasing rapidly’.
A spokesperson for the FSB says that women tend to found their own firms later in life, for example […]

 
FORMER billionaire Alan Bond is back in the money, placing 157th on a list of richest Australians with a relatively small but still respectable estimated wealth of $265 million.

Bond, who hit rock bottom in 1992, earns his spot on the 2008 BRW Rich 200 list mainly through interests such as holdings in Madagascar Oil and […]

 The hunt for multimillionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who vanished in September after taking off by plane from a remote Nevada ranch, is resuming now that snow has melted in rugged mountains where he may have crashed.
The search won’t match last year’s, which covered about 20,000 square miles and involved a small air force of private […]

According to a survey of 4,500 UK workers:
· The country’s ideal salary is £38,000
· 70% feel they will never earn their ideal salary in their current job
· 41% will keep moving jobs to achieve their ideal salary
· 51% are too embarrassed to discuss pay in job interviews or with their current employer
Money may not buy […]

 
Silver-tongued Raef Bjayou may be one of the favourites to win The Apprentice TV show, but back in the real world of business he has slipped up in rather embarrassing fashion.
His import-export company - called Infinitate - is facing a fine after failing to file its annual accounts to Companies House on time.
Despite Mr Bjayou’s […]

Mike Danson, the millionaire businessman who owns half of the New Statesman, is set to take full control within three years.
Sources close to the magazine say that Danson, who bought a 50% stake in the New Statesman in April, will eventually take full control from millionaire Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson.
Robinson has been the leftwing weekly’s […]

Former school friends Rob Taub and Nick Kenton started a free online directory listing all the sports clubs in Britain. They hoped it would make money by attracting advertising.
They had obtained an unsecured bank loan of £12,500 from Barclays and had combined savings of £12,500 to get the business going. They planned to employ an […]

 
Plenty of companies sell log cabin kits. But Argos seems to be the first major retailer to market an attractive and affordable model that reportedly can be built in two days by just two people. The British retailer’s basic five-room cabin, measuring roughly 32×17 feet or 8×5 meters, costs GBP 10,999. An upgraded model, with […]

 
Liu Keli couldn’t tell you much about South Carolina, not even where it is in the United States. It’s as obscure to him as his home region, Shanxi province, is to most Americans.
But Liu is investing $10 million in the Palmetto State, building a printing-plate factory that will open this fall and hire 120 workers. […]

 
Sometimes during peak hours, the phones are silent in Andy Freitas’ pizza restaurants, yet the cooks are busy keeping pace with hungry customers.
That’s because orders are rolling in through the Internet.
“It’s pretty amazing not to hear a phone ring on a busy night,” said Freitas, an operating partner with the largest Papa John’s franchisee in […]