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The latest Business Insolvency Index from Experian has revealed that business insolvency rates in August 2013 fell in 2013 marking the twelfth month that the rate has remained stable or fallen.

Karren Brady, vice-chairman of West Ham, director of Mothercare, advisor to Simon Cowell, and star of The Apprentice, has been hired to be the Government’s Small Business Ambassador.

George Osborne has vowed to establish Britain’s first budget surplus in more than a decade in a move praised by business leaders as being “ambitious” and “important”.

The latest Business Insolvency Index from Experian, reveals that business insolvency rates in August 2013 fell from 0.09 per cent in 2012 to 0.08 per cent in 2013 marking the twelfth month that the rate has remained stable or fallen

Mark Carney, the Bank of England Governor, sees no need for more stimulus for the economy given the gathering pace of the recovery, sending the pound higher.

Nearly 30 per cent of employees are using personal cloud services to store work-related documents, according to a survey conducted at recent technology trade shows in which 5 per cent of respondents also admitted to uploading confidential data to their personal cloud accounts.

Even compared with his energy freeze bombshell, Ed Miliband’s threat to seize undeveloped land owned by property developers sounded extreme.

Ex Apprentice winner Stella English has said she only has around £200 in her bank account – and that the stress of the legal action she brought claiming unfair dismal from Lord Sugar contributed to the breakdown of her marriage, leaving her as a single parent.

Shops and stores had a better September than expected as the recovering property market affected rest of economy

Centrica’s largest shareholder has accused Ed Miliband of “economic vandalism” and said that energy companies should pull investment out of the UK, putting the country at risk of the “lights going out”.

The charity Directory of Social Change (DSC) argues that a Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) should be developed to improve the quality, transparency and consistency of companies’ CSR reporting.

Almost a third of British office workers believe their workplace lags behind their home when it comes to technology according to new research.

A week dedicated to inspiring and supporting food and drink small and medium sized businesses to grow an international market for their products has launched this week.

Plan to force firms to offer a training place for a British worker for every migrant worker hired rejected by business leaders

LinkedIn, owner of the professional-networking website, has been sued by customers alleging it appropriated their identities for marketing the site without their consent by hacking into their external e-mail accounts and downloading contacts’ addresses.