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Many of the urgent requirements should be fulfilled in time whenever they arise. If you make any delay in their accomplishment then this can create huge imbalance in your lives. So it is better to solve out these problems when these are small. But the question arises that how this is possible as they require [...]

The pawnshop has been rehabilitated, and apparently this is not even such a Bad Thing. The decline of these seedy outlets was once measured in inverse proportion to the advance of the welfare state, until such businesses achieved vivid attention only when one was reading the novels of Dickens, Lawrence or Dostoevsky, or perhaps the [...]

Rio Tinto says it is mid-way through a share buy-back program that is designed to simplify its dual listed structure. The mining giant early last month agreed in principle to buy back all of the Rio Tinto shares held by Tinto Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of its London Stock Exchange-listed Rio Tinto plc. Later [...]

Ireland’s finance minister, Brian Lenihan, was in Brussels tonight in an effort to clinch a deal over the toxic Anglo Irish Bank while trying to calm financial markets’ fears that the government bailout could bankrupt the country. After “constructive” talks with the EU competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia today he heads into a conference of European [...]

The use of smartphones by small businesses has more than doubled in the past three years, research finds. According to the Open University Business School’s quarterly survey of 833 small and medium enterprises (SMEs), almost half of UK small businesses report that at least one person in their company uses a smartphone for business purposes, [...]