Facebook is worth $100bn but users slip June 13, 2011 FACEBOOK last month shed users across a number of its mature markets, sparking fears its meteoric growth is beginning to peak. Last month it lost 6m users in the US to fall below 150m and lost a further 100,000 in the UK. Canada, Russia and Norway also registered a similar fall, according to data gathered [...]
Royal wedding holiday boosts BAA airport traffic June 13, 2011 Passenger traffic at BAA’s airports increased by 9.2 per cent last month compared to May 2010, with the late Easter holidays and the royal wedding leading to more passengers at the beginning of the month. BAA, majority owned by Spanish infrastructure group Ferrovial, on Monday said 9.3m passengers flew from its UK airports in May, [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING June 12, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES FOREIGN BANKS AND GOVERNMENTS IN DESPERATE ASSAULT ON US TAX LAW Banks and foreign governments are mounting an increasingly desperate push against a sweeping US tax law that will force overseas institutions to report their American clients to the Internal Revenue Service. The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act was passed by Congress last [...]
Rejoice: Opec’s days are numbered June 8, 2011 THERE was a time when the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), the cartel of oil producing nations, was the world’s Enemy Number One. The group wielded terrifying powers: it could make or break economies by increasing or reducing the supply of oil, sending its price rocketing or crashing. No longer: Opec, while still [...]
BP downbeat on Rosneft June 8, 2011 BP CHIEF executive Bob Dudley yesterday gave a downbeat view of his firm’s chances of reviving a deal with Russia’s Rosneft, as the oil giant revealed its annual global review of world energy. “Whether that project goes forward or not, it’s very quiet. This is part of a big portfolio of exploration pursuit. Sometimes it’s [...]
BP denies plan to sell TNK-BP June 7, 2011 BP yesterday insisted that it had no plans to sell down its half share in Russia’s third-largest oil producer TNK-BP, denying comments from sources close to its partners that it threatened such a move. The oil giant said its focus in Russia was on developing its TNK-BP venture, and denied it was preparing to reduce [...]
Russia’s Global Ports to raise $750m in London June 6, 2011 RUSSIA’S biggest freight terminal operator aims to list on the London Stock Exchange to raise up to $750m (£456m), it said yesterday. Global Ports Investments, which operates terminals in Russia and Finland, intends to float 25 per cent of its issued share capital. It will list $100m of new shares and an unspecified amount of [...]
Russia’s Global Ports plans $750m London IPO June 6, 2011 Russian freight terminal operator Global Ports is planning to raise up to $750m (£456m) from an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange. Global Ports, the latest in a stream of Russian companies seeking fresh capital from the market, has said it will sell $100m of new shares as well as an unspecified amount [...]
A man on a mission to the Moonpig.com June 5, 2011 MOONPIG was a nickname I had at school,” says Nick Jenkins. “I needed a two syllable domain name, something comic and unique on Google.” It took him four days of checking potential names on Network Solutions to stumble upon Moonpig. Now a household name, it is also one of the UK’s fastest growing and most [...]
Vincent Tchenguiz interview: the Mayfair tycoon fighting to clear his name June 3, 2011 An afternoon with Vincent Tchenguiz, the property tycoon fighting to clear his name of fraud allegations linked to the collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing, makes you realise why cases like this take a team of accountants years to unravel. For nearly 90 minutes, I’m bombarded with figures and facts, allegations and claims. At one point [...]