Wesabe Shutting Down

July 1st, 2010

One of the longest established personal finance managers (PFM), Wesabe, is shutting down.

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Finance Startups At GeeknRolla

April 21st, 2010

We’ve been keeping an eye out for finance related startups featured at this year’s TechCrunch Europe’s GeeknRolla event in London.

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Tesco To Offer Mortgages By End Of 2010

April 20th, 2010

Tesco expects to be in a position to do by the end of the year, subject to approval by the Financial Services Authority.

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Kublax Dies… Again.

February 26th, 2010

Scrap what we said the other day about Kublax possibly being able to continue, an email sent to users today confirms they’ve gone out of business.

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Kublax Goes Bust

February 17th, 2010

Account aggregator Kublax has gone into administration after failing to find funding to develop their site.

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Wilkos Donate “A Big 1%” To Charity

February 10th, 2010

Fair play to Wilkinsons for their social responsibility policy, donating a percentage of their profits to local communities each year.

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Expert Finance Predictions For 2010: Jasmine Birtles, MoneyMagpie

December 29th, 2009

Here’s the second in our crystal ball gazing series of expert predictions for 2010, this time we’ve got the thoughts of Jasmine Birtles who runs MoneyMagpie, and is also a finance journalist and writer of several books.

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Vote For The “Worst Company In Britain”

November 4th, 2009

Bitterwallet are running their annual “Worst Company In Britain” anti-competition, and are looking for nominations.

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Get Paid To Snoop

October 7th, 2009

Here’s a new and controversial money making idea: getting paid to spot crimes on CCTV.

That’s just what new website “Internet Eyes” is offering to do when it launches next month, offering you the chance of earning up to £1,000 per month for spotting shoplifting, burglary, vandalism or anti-social behaviour.

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Who Needs Customers?

August 10th, 2009

At what point did running a business become more about betting and less about having a killer product or satisfying the most simple of needs?

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