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Horsemeat: French finally blamed... 15th February 2013 11:07 AM

“AN inquiry has been launched into why it has taken a month to blame the horsemeat scandal on the French...

...In angry exchanges in the House of Commons, Labour

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Beanz Meanz Heinz bought for $28bn 15th February 2013 9:52 AM

Warren Buffet thought he'd add another business to his collection, a little known food company called Heinz.

“Heinz says it sells 650 million bottles of its ketchup worldwide every year, and it is the biggest seller of baked beans in the UK.

BBC News - Heinz bought by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway for $28bn”

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Oscar Pistorius accused of murdering his girl friend 15th February 2013 9:33 AM

Blimey, after becoming internationally famous at London 2012, looks like the "Blade Runner" is set to become notorious after allegedly gunning down his missus

BBC News - Oscar Pistorius: Olympics and Paralympics star at court

Foods Standards Agency? Toothless agency??? 15th February 2013 9:00 AM

Originally Posted by PATman

“Apparently it's going to slow down the influx of Romanian workers....they've eaten all the transport :-)”

Completely unpc Patman and very funny

Boom another High Street chain goes into administration... 13th February 2013 3:40 PM

“Clothing chain Republic has confirmed widespread fears, announcing that it has called in the administrators.

The Leeds-based retailer, which has 121 stores and about 2,500 staff, said it had appointed accountants from Ernst & Young to take over running of the firm.

BBC News - Republic chain enters administration”

So still trading for now, but I suspect buyers will be thin on the ground

Superior Alternatives to Generic links 13th February 2013 1:02 PM

Interesting stuff, reinforces the same message that's been around for the last 12 - 18 months, that old school link gaming is over.

Didn't know about this one and is a good tip:

“One great way to find synonyms is through using Google's tilde (~) operator. The tilde tells Google to "search for pages that are synonyms or similar to the term that follows.”

Yellow Pages set to default on loans! 12th February 2013 9:25 PM

Blimey, Yellow Pages is in trouble again as it struggles along with falling revenues. It's called the Hibu group these days, but runs the on and offline familiar yellow directories.

Apparently they are set to default on

Coke's 7 Smart Social Media Rules for Success 12th February 2013 3:44 PM

If you haven't seen this, it's interesting reading.

Many of us are cynical and various opinions about Social Networking/Media, from pointless to has potential.

Maybe there's something to learn from the big boys?

Here's some interesting high lights, with the full article at the bottom:

Listen. Then respond authentically and humanly... There are more than 15,000 tweets everyday on brand Coca-Cola; any that are questions, we answer. We have to. Consumers expect that we're listening and responding...
Think big. Start small. Scale fast." Coke continually innovates, but it runs small tests before launching globally, analyzing results for learnings...
Content is the new currency... The world is not suffering from lack of content. With this in mind, content creation has to be useful, interesting, important, shareworthy

Ernan Roman: Coke's 7 Smart Social Media Rules for Success

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