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What the Sunday papers said...

Sun, 27 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

The Independent on Sunday: Goldman Sachs looks at billionaire's oil break-up

Facebook: The shares shenanigans

Sat, 26 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

So, no honeymoon, then.A week ago, Mark Zuckerberg was celebrating his first morning as a married man, and a $19.1bn married man at that. The previous Friday, Facebook's founder had floated his social network on the stock market, with the eye-popping valuation of $104bn, making millionaires and billionaires out of his early staff. Then he had wed his Harvard University sweetheart Priscilla Chan in a romantic backyard ceremony that he had managed to keep totally secret despite months of planning – a feat that must be unique in the post-privacy era ushered in by Facebook.

Chuka Umunna: 'It is plain, Camerkozy austerity is not working'

Sat, 26 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

This Chuka Umunna is cheeky. First, he set the hare running by forcing the controversial Beecroft report out into the open, prompting accusations that Vince Cable is a "socialist and anti-business".

Business week in review

Sat, 26 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

In profit...

The game of the name

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Like a balding man buying a sports car, when a company comes up with a whacky new name, chances are there's some kind of crisis going on. Yell yielded to the temptation of a zany name change this week as the Yellow Pages publisher announced it was spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on a quirky new moniker that even its boss admits is meaningless.

Spotlight On... Adrian Wyatt, Quintain founder and chief executive

Thu, 24 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Who's Adrian Wyatt?

Autonomous once again: The corporate takeover that went wrong

Thu, 24 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

When Mike Lynch embarked on a beauty parade for his Cambridge-based data sorting company in the heart of Silicon Valley last year, he didn't think that just over a year later he would be leaving the company he founded 16 years ago. But among the 27,000 jobs Hewlett Packard this week announced it is planning to cut is Mr Lynch himself.

Wheels are turning slower at FirstGroup

Wed, 23 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

SCREEEEECH. That's the sound of Britain's buses of the North grinding to a halt. Not literally – the wheels are still a-turning, for now. But the country's North-South divide is now so stark that some of us in the North can't afford to take the bus so often. And that's hurting operator FirstGroup, Britain's biggest bus company.

The art of industrial espionage

Wed, 23 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Chris Morgan Jones would probably make a decent spy. He's dashing, well spoken, well travelled. He has a degree in English literature from Oxford, which makes him more qualified than James Bond or Jason Bourne. But though the 41-year-old has worked in intelligence, his job was crunching numbers, not cracking heads. For 11 years, he was an employee of Kroll, the world's oldest and best-known corporate-investigations firm.

Watchdog barks up wrong tree on Vincent and Robert Tchenguiz

Tue, 22 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

The Serious Fraud Office seriously considered putting undercover agents into Annabel's, the upmarket nightclub in London's Mayfair favoured by the rich and minor royals, to keep an eye on Vincent and Robert Tchenguiz, the millionaire property tycoons. The idea was for police officers to pose as staff and try to ingratiate themselves with the brothers and collect evidence.

Watchdog barks up wrong tree on Tchenguizes

Tue, 22 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Satyajit Das: There is a misplaced reliance on the European Central Bank

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:32:07 GMT

Voters in Greece and France have voted against austerity. Voters elsewhere in Europe will probably follow suit in time. Despite summits and communiqués, politicians and policy makers cannot miraculously create growth overnight. The only likely action in the short run will probably come from the European Central Bank (“ECB”).

Spotlight on: Jack Ma, Founder, Alibaba

Mon, 21 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Anything to do with the Arabian Nights?

Barclay brothers in hotels dust-up

Mon, 21 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

As he pores over many hundreds of pages of final legal submissions in the case of McKillen v Barclay Brothers, filed yesterday after 25 days of hearings, Chancery Division judge David Richards is bound to consider the personalities involved. He might well conclude that Belfast-born Paddy McKillen and Hammersmith-born Sirs David and Frederick Barclay have this in common: they are all self-made tycoons from humble beginnings, and they are all fiercely protective of their privacy.

What the Sunday Papers said...

Sun, 20 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Independent on Sunday: UK warned of credit downgrade

Casualty! The eurozone sickness spreads

Sat, 19 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Suddenly, there are a lot of Sick Men of Europe. Greece is in intensive care; Spain's waiting for a bed to become available; the drips that Portugal and Ireland are on don't seem to be doing much good; and while the condition of Italy seems to have stabilised a little, France is developing a bit of a cough; and the Netherlands are feeling a bit peaky. It's all a bit like a pan-European edition of Casualty.

Business week in review

Sat, 19 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

In profit ...

Why Greece really wishes you were there

Sat, 19 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

'Wish you were here" isn't a slogan that can be spotted amid the racks of postcards spilling into the streets in Athens' tourist traps, but the sentiment is visible everywhere. It's in the eyes of every bored-looking hotel receptionist and overstocked ice-cream vendor.

Jamie Oliver's recipe for success

Fri, 18 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

"You know," says Jamie Oliver, sighing quietly: " I am not doing this for the money as I could have retired five years ago. I'm here because I want to speak out about things that matter – about what people eat, about preventing obesity. It's a killer."

Prepared for the Grexit?

Fri, 18 May 2012 09:00:01 GMT

Despite the doom and gloom surrounding the future of Greece and the eurozone, UK plc looks like it could be in for a rude awakening. Against a backdrop of an increasingly likely Greek exit, which the CBI director general John Cridland warned this week would hit Britain like an "earthquake", alarming new research shows that the majority of UK businesses that would be affected by the "Grexit" have made no contingency plans.

Eurozone crisis: Don't panic – yet... Our expert guide to the coming storm

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:00:01 GMT

Q. If Greece does leave the euro, what will this mean for other indebted eurozone economies?

Spotlight On... Ralph Whitworth; Founder, Relational Investors

Thu, 17 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

And he is...?

Is the UK economy being dragged down by Europe?

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:01 GMT

The Bank of England's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee obeys Wittgenstein's proposition: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." In its quarterly Inflation Report, published yesterday, the Bank said: "The MPC sees no meaningful way to quantify the size and likelihood of the most extreme possibilities associated with developments in the euro area."

Dragged down by Europe?

Wed, 16 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Facebook: Is it worth it?

Tue, 15 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT

Yes