International Business News - Comments & Features http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/commentaries/ All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.co.uk 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif According to the Sun, an iPhone application has helped a glasgow woman give birth plotting her 'menstrual calendar' that tells her when she is most fertile. 45014 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20100125/glaswegian-concieves-with-help-iphone.htm Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:23:27 EST This week the world was given what some have called its first "YouTube martyr" after Neda Agha Soltani was shot dead and her final moments caught on camera. The footage then made its way onto YouTube and most major media outlets began showing the graphic and disturbing pictures of a woman struggling for her life before expiring live on camera. 15013 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090624/neda-death-iran-iranian-protests.htm Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:22:57 EDT The recent success of the British National Party in the European elections has widely been condemned as a dark moment in British politics and has coincided with even stronger success in Europe of similar parties such as Jobbik in Hungary and the Party of Freedom in Holland. 13956 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090609/bnp-british-national-party.htm Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:59:40 EDT Manufacturing slowed to its lowest levels in a year this May due to a drop in new orders, output and employment according to the latest CIPS/Markit survey. 13283 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090601/manufacturing-sector-output-pmi.htm Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:16:38 EDT Microsoft Corp. unveiled its latest attempt in beating the likes of Google and Yahoo with Bing. The search engine intends to provide users with enhanced decision making capabilities that other search engines fail to do. 13067 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/data/articleimgs/6795-bing-microsoftanswer-to-google.jpg http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090529/bing-microsoft-acircanswer-google.htm http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090529/bing-microsoft-acircanswer-google.htm Fri, 29 May 2009 23:36:37 EDT Retail sales saw a boost in April according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics. 12603 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/data/articleimgs/6559-sales.jpg http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090521/retail-sales-april.htm http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090521/retail-sales-april.htm Thu, 21 May 2009 21:15:50 EDT Michael Martin, the Speaker of the House of Commons has apologised for his role in the expenses scandal which is rocking Parliament and added that all MP's needed to accept responsibility for the resulting damage that has been done to Parliament's reputation. 12316 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/data/articleimgs/6428-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090518/speaker-martin-apologises-role-expenses-scandal.htm http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090518/speaker-martin-apologises-role-expenses-scandal.htm Mon, 18 May 2009 16:31:03 EDT Mining shares have turned red hot this year after a disastrous 2008 and are set to keep outpacing other sectors as the top beneficiaries of growing optimism that a global recession will be shorter than feared. 11792 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090511/investors-return-miners-fleeing.htm Mon, 11 May 2009 13:48:37 EDT The think-tank LEAP/E2020 directed an open letters at the leaders of the upcoming G-20 summit, to prevent the global economic crisis of becoming worse. LEAP/E2020 has an excellent insight into all matters regarding the crisis, as it was about the first to issue a warning of an upcoming severe crisis already over three years ago. Since then, detailed and precise forecasts were issued about the economic situation, and solutions were proposed early on as well, although unheard. 10854 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090326/think-tank-leap-2020-open-letter-g20-summit.htm Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:29:17 EDT Competition in the online fashion industry is set to intensify as store groups, hit by sliding sales in the economic downturn, try to grab a slice of one of the few strongly growing retail markets. 10492 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/data/articleimgs/5494-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090314/online-fashion-battle-heat-sales-boom.htm http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090314/online-fashion-battle-heat-sales-boom.htm Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:55:49 EDT The "Great Recession" will clamp leading global economies in a vicious grip well into 2010 and push unemployment to multi-year records, Reuters polls show. 10491 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090314/global-economies-seen-trapped-great-recession.htm Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:53:57 EDT Business secretary Peter Mandelson on Wednesday challenged the private equity industry to put its money to work in funding start-up businesses and growing mid-sized companies into world beaters. 10490 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/data/articleimgs/5493-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090314/mandelson-venture-funding-challenge.htm http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090314/mandelson-venture-funding-challenge.htm Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:52:50 EDT Shares in Britain's smaller companies are likely to be the worst affected by a crackdown in spending by a government faced with a big budget deficit from bailing out the country's banks. 10489 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090314/small-companies-feel-pinch-bailout-hits-spending.htm Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:51:38 EDT David Pepper has lost the faith. Pepper, a long-time devotee of both General Electric shares and buying stocks and holding them, said that GE's recent stock slide has destroyed his faith in the stock and the company's management -- and has caused him to question his overall investing strategy. 10488 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/data/articleimgs/5492-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090314/long-term-investors-lose-faith.htm http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090314/long-term-investors-lose-faith.htm Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:46:41 EDT Jack Welch, the former General Electric chief executive is widely regarded as the founder of the 'shareholder value' movement that has dominated the corporate world for more than 20 years. 10473 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/data/articleimgs/5485-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090314/jack-welch-shareholder-value-theory.htm http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090314/jack-welch-shareholder-value-theory.htm Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:52:12 EDT Vaccines may be the next big thing for Big Pharma. 10386 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/data/articleimgs/5425-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090309/big-pharma-look-vaccines.htm http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090309/big-pharma-look-vaccines.htm Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:11:32 EDT With Obama's presidency in full swing, its clear that the president is 'hoping for change' as his election manifesto so eloquently put forward. 10360 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/data/articleimgs/5408-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090307/obama-history-rulebook-promises.htm http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090307/obama-history-rulebook-promises.htm Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:29:16 EST Asia's calamity is that Americans are imitating frugal Asians a lot faster than Asians can become free-spending Americans. 10322 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/data/articleimgs/5380-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090305/james-saft-asians-imitating-americans.htm http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090305/james-saft-asians-imitating-americans.htm Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:49:37 EST A revised bailout of American International Group (AIG.N) may be just another "band-aid" solution, but more than five months after it was first rescued by the government the option of letting the insurer fail would still be considered too big a shock to already fragile global markets. 10229 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090303/aig-failure-disastrous-for-global-markets.htm Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:49:09 EST The financial crisis is forcing Wall Street banks and hedge funds to pull out of billions of dollars worth of film deals, opening the door for specialty investors to scoop up Hollywood assets at discount prices. 10228 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/data/articleimgs/5310-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090303/banks-sell-hollywood-investments.htm http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20090303/banks-sell-hollywood-investments.htm Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:46:53 EST