Tobes Kelly, Raconteur Media's Head of Custom Publishing division, in the first of a three-series post on content:

My job title used to be Head of Publishing. These days, everywhere I turn, it seems that marketing managers, business...

Discontent is on the rise among Western banking customers faced with abuses such as Libor rigging, mis-selling of financial products, hidden trading losses and sloppy anti-money laundering, writes Paul McNamara

As the conventional financial system takes blows to its credibility, the question arises whether there is a better financial system...

Charles Orton-Jones traces the rise of a new breed of City computer geeks who prefer algorithms to champagne and Lamborghinis

The Masters of the Universe have been demoted. Back in the 1980s the strutting lords of the City were traders. The author Tom Wolfe wrote in The Bonfire of the...

How much trouble are we in? What we can do about it? How long have we got? With quality of life at stake and no easy answers, the time is now for tackling the difficult questions being asked of future cities worldwide, writes Jim McClelland

INVESTMENT
There are many investment opportunities in agriculture, but the complexities of the food supply chain create risks, as Sarah Murray reports

With rising populations creating more mouths to feed, newly affluent citizens in developing countries hungry for meat and other...

ENTREPRENEURS With new business start-ups at record levels in the UK, the number of wealthy entrepreneurs is also increasing. So who looks after the financial affairs of this latest wave of "nouveaux riches"? Rob Langston finds out

Politicians...

Uptake of biometrics in the public sector is increasing despite concern over infringement of privacy and civil liberties, writes Adam Vrankulj

"Biometrics" and "public sector" are words that react together like petrol and fire. Anybody doubting that should put them...

The alarm bells started ringing in September last year. Hornby, supplier of toy railways to generations...

Raconteur Media founder and CEO Freddie Ossberg explains why he feels that content marketers need to shape up

"Let's create an infographic!" Words I'm sure most of you have heard in (and probably before) the past year. But it seems that this medium...

Freddie Ossberg, Founder and CEO of Raconteur Media and winner of Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2010, gives tips on putting your business plans into action

1. Don't over complicate the business plan or the vision for the business: most business...

The explosion in internet communication means that messages are created and spread faster than ever before. It also means that markets and trends are liable to change faster than at any previous time. In addition, as marketing and PR functions edge ever closer...

AZERBAIJAN Nicolas Sarkis, founder and CEO of AlphaOne Partners LLP, puts the spotlight on the social, political and economic developments taking place in a country that seldom receives much recognition from the outside world.

The Eurovision Song Contest is famous for producing unexpected...

STARTUPS A wave of new payment startups is challenging traditional models and spurring more established players into taking action to develop their own marketshare. Often without the constrains of institutional shareholders and hefty levels of bureaucracy to stifle innovation, these new upstarts, operating in the right market at the right...

REPUTATION Raymond Snoddy examines how social networking websites, such as Twitter, have transformed reputation management for organisations operating in a digital age

National news coverage revealing that millions of O2 mobile customers could have had their numbers disclosed to...

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE The Chartered Institute of Marketing's latest benchmark study of top brand executives at more than 100 leading international companies explores how to bridge the gap between promise and reality, as head of insights Thomas Brown explains

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PERCEPTIONS Outsourcing is the victim of a reality gap - the difference between its real worth to the UK economy and negative public perceptions, as Rebecca Brace discovers

Q & A He works for IBM Madrid, lives in Gran Canaria and his boss is based in the United States. So why on Earth did Luis Suarez decide to give up email? The social software evangelist tells Kate Bassettabout his take on life outside the inbox

EVOLUTION OF BEAUTY Why is it that when share prices plummet, sales of cosmetics soar? When it comes to explaining economic theories, it's just a case of history, as Bethan Cole reports

BEST PRACTICE Handling big data may be a daunting prospect, but Kate Bassett has some useful tips for getting the most out of astronomical amounts of information

This year, humans will create or replicate around three zettabytes of data....

EXPERT VIEW Harvard Business School's Thomas H. Davenport urges British business to seize the opportunity big data presents to surge ahead of competitors

Big data and associated analytics promise to change virtually every industry and business function over the next decade. Any organisation that gets started early...