How it works

Said & Done: Portsmouth; Sepp Blatter; plus what makes Sven enchanted
How Innovation Works Is Surfing the Internet Wave in China
SCORE: Market research and how to use it
Nigeria: How Benin-Ore Road Was Transformed
Impulse buying: Is it on your list? How to keep from overspending
How to shop online
Taxing Bank Profits: I Wish People Would Understand This
Doing good works here at home? Tell us about it.
Willpower: It’s in Your Head

Said & Done: Portsmouth; Sepp Blatter; plus what makes Sven enchanted

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 05:49 AM PST

Test of the week; Sepp cleans up; Didier Deschamps on grammar; plus what makes Sven enchanted The fit and proper person test: how it works • 2009: Vladimir Antonov's Lithuanian bank Snoras barred from opening a UK branch after supplying "misleading information" about its anti-fraud controls. The FSA ruled it was "part of an ongoing pattern of behaviour by institutions controlled by Mr Antonov ...

How Innovation Works Is Surfing the Internet Wave in China

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 07:48 AM PST

In part two of my interview with Innovation Works CEO Kai-Fu Lee at September's World Economic Forum conference in Dalian, China, I ask him about the growing enthusiasm for what the Internet and technology can do as enabling tools for China's development. Lee observes that as software reaches mobile phones, it is spreading at an unprecedented rate in his country, so much so that "for every ...

SCORE: Market research and how to use it

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 09:13 PM PST

Question: I recently attended a conference and one of the speakers stressed the importance of market research. Exactly what is it and how will it benefit my business?

Nigeria: How Benin-Ore Road Was Transformed

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 01:01 AM PST

Few months ago, I remembered vividly how the Honourable Minister of Works, Arc Mike Onolememen engaged critics over the condition of Benin-Ore-Shagamu road where the failed Ore section gave commuters nightmares.

Impulse buying: Is it on your list? How to keep from overspending

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 09:16 AM PST

Shoppers hit the Black Friday sale at Kmart at 6 a.m. on Friday. Retailers are hoping to lure more shoppers into their stores with the promise of price-busting finds and the latest hot item, but unless that item is on your list or within your budget -- financial experts say to avoid such temptation.

How to shop online

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 08:41 AM PST

Morwenna Ferrier's guide to being a successful online shopper This hair? Groupon.co.uk . The shoes? Topshop.com , ta very much. Same goes for this outfit ( eBay.co.uk ), the bra ( M&S online ), lipstick ( Debenhams.com ) and the cool song (Friends' "I'm His Girl"; iTunes ) playing on a loop in my head. For almost a decade I have bought virtually everything I own online. It started in 2002. I was ...

Taxing Bank Profits: I Wish People Would Understand This

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 10:26 AM PST

How, or indeed whether, to tax the financial sector more is an argument that raging around at the moment. There are those who seem to think that the service of Mammon is simply frightful and thus must be taxed out of existence. Then there are those3 who think there should be a financial transactions, or Robin Hood tax: failing to realise that it would be consumers who end up paying this not ...

Doing good works here at home? Tell us about it.

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 09:23 PM PST

Time and time again, the generosity of the people of Bucks and Montgomery counties is evident.

Willpower: It’s in Your Head

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 02:44 PM PST

It's easy to attribute our failures of will to our biology. But it's wrong.