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Ewan MacLeod: Targeting FTSE 100 companies

Ewan MacLeod, CEO of datacentre services provider DCMI, says his best business decision was to target the biggest clients first.

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Innocent: Building a brand from nothing but fruit – review

Great Brand Stories: Innocent: Building a brand from nothing but fruit, by John Simmons (published by Cyan Books).

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Rising Star: Ian Merricks

Ian Merricks began his career as a record promoter in 1996. In 2007, he raised private equity for the MBO of Itchy Media, and since then has overseen five acquisitions.

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Bad Month: Take-Two Interactive

Take-Two Interactive Software, developer of the controversial Grand Theft Auto series, has announced that it will be undertaking significant job cuts in an effort to return to profit.

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Good Month: Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British physicist who created the World Wide Web, has been awarded the Order of Merit, one of the UK’s most prestigious honours.

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Pesticides you can eat

The quest for effective pesticides free of chemical nasties has been going for years. Now TyraTech, an American research company which floated on AIM this month, believes it has the answer.

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The Toshiba Portégé R400-100

If you appreciate the beautiful things in life and go weak at the knees over sleek design, this should get your heart racing.

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Singing from the same hymnsheet

Social entrepreneurship may call to mind images of determined businesspeople turning their talents to good causes.

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The Toshiba Portégé R400-100

If you appreciate the beautiful things in life and go weak at the knees over sleek design, this should get your heart racing.

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Singing from the same hymnsheet

Social entrepreneurship may call to mind images of determined businesspeople turning their talents to good causes.

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Todd Hannula: All in a good cause

For Todd Hannula, success wasn’t enough. A former salesman, dotcom entrepreneur and ‘corporate boob’, as he puts it, Hannula was pursuing a lucrative career in the US when in the summer of 2005 he decided to give it all up.

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What I’m reading now

Great Brand Stories: Innocent: Building a brand from nothing but fruit, by John Simmons (published by Cyan Books) - reviewed by Richard Warmsley, head of internet on the move, T-Mobile UK

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Creative businesses face ‘analysis gap’

From video games developers to firms of architects, creative businesses of all kinds struggle to get adequate financing due to a misconception that they cannot be analysed systematically, claims a new report.

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Those fatal business mistakes

It's often said that the best entrepreneurs are those who throw caution to the wind to ensure their ideas and dreams become a reality. I disagree with this point of view as innovative flair and business acumen do not always go hand-in-hand. If they did, the 5,400 UK businesses going bust every year would be dramatically reduced.

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