Yahoo's board has approved a deal to acquire blogging startup Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash.
It is up to consumers and voters to change the lousy behaviour of big banks, energy giants and internet multinational. They will not change by themselvesLast week, I was waiting in the queue at the butcher while an elderly lady was being served. Clearly, she was not that well-off and chose the cheapest cuts of meat. When she was done, the butcher asked the assistant serving her how much the bill...
A report to be published on Monday warns of the disastrous consequences of a new financial transactions tax, Sky News understands.
Hundreds of thousands of students will be burdened with long-term debt, making it even harder for them to afford to buy a home, a research conducted for The Mail on Sunday suggests.
The US web giant Yahoo! is to buy Tumblr in a $1.1bn (£720m) deal that will net the the founder of the blogging network a $250m fortune at the age of just 26.
Sir Mervyn King, the outgoing head of the Bank of England, has called for an end of banker bashing saying it's wrong to "demonise individuals" for the failure of the financial system.
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said the Obama administration wouldn't cooperate in "partisan fishing expeditions" over targeting of tea-party groups by tax officials.
North Korea on Sunday fired a short-range missile into the sea off the eastern coast of the Korean peninsula following three similar launches Saturday.
Denmark emerged victorious Saturday in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. 20year-old Emmelie de Forest won with folksy ballad "Only Teardrops," which handily beat runners up, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.
Britain is risking another housing crash – and billions of pounds of debt – through a plan to help people on to the property ladder, the Bank of England governor has warned.

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