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Hi Again
Sorry it’s been so quiet on here. I will try to rectify this.
The crnch is definitely hitting hard this year. Every day seems to bring more and more bad economic news. And there’s no sign of the “green shoots of recovery” that has certain UK govenment ministers might talk about.
However… all is not gloomy [...]

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Today’s crnchd news - revenge of the French?

Just scanning through some of the headlines…
The actual fall in UK House Prices in 2008 was 15.9% -http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7812108.stm
The first of the Q4 2008 sales figures are in - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7812954.stm
- from Debenhams - who adopted tactics of lots of big special offer days to get the pre xmas crowds in - their numbers down 3.3%
- from [...]

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Safety?

I’ve just had the radio… and I heard a rather odd advert.
Basically it’s from the UK army and it’s offering a career in the army as a place of safety in these troubled economic times.
Now, I know what they are suggesting - it’s clear that the army will keep getting paid throughout the economic downs and [...]

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Some interesting tech companies

Back to looking at opportunities…. and looking at a few young (well, youngish) UK companies that have caught my eye as I’ve been surfing around.
As part of “what to do now?” I’ve been looking at a few companies over the web… and some of the companies that have stood out as interesting are:

Sentient
Huddle
Dunnhumby
Lokku
Fubra

At first looks, [...]

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