Soraa declares a brighter LED 2.0
Cheaper, brighter, leaner are the qualities driving light-emitting diode advances and no less than three companies have announced breakthroughs on Tuesday that further advance LEDs as our bright, lighting future. Soraa, a Silicon Valley start-up, has e...
Further further reading
For the commute home,- “Deposits” with money market funds aren’t protected like those in banks, and the SEC is only just getting around to regulating them....
Global liquidity fail — the role of skewed incentives
Presenting, one of the best accounts of how the current crisis came about that we’ve read to date.It comes courtesy of Benoît Cœuré, member of the executive board of the ECB,...
Apple threatens to boot developers that game the App Store
Ever looked at the iPhone App Store’s list of most popular apps and thought, how did that get so popular? Apple has been asking the same question – and it has found that not all are quite as popular as …Continue reading: "Apple threatens...
Google joins desktop and mobile with Chrome for Android
by Dan Thomas, Telecoms Correspondent Google is taking Chrome mobile for the first time with the introduction of its web browser across the Android phone platform. The company promises to make surfing the web a seamless experience from desktop to &hell...
From deposit stashing to repo lending at UBS
UBS announced lacklustre results on Tuesday, saying it expected further weakness in investment banking in the first quarter.But the bank also provided details of some interesting...
It just dropped in my inbox…Trump Hotel Collection
This is a pilot for an occasional AV series. Shouting and emphasis not ours…NEW YORK – Feb. 7, 2012 – TRUMP HOTEL COLLECTION™ has launched a fresh, new lifestyle...
LTRO-ing, with Magnus
Intesa Sanpaolo’s chief executive says he’ll use ECB funds to buy Italian bonds…BBVA sells the first senior unsecured bond to be issued by a Spanish bank since...
Acer sues former chief exec Lanci – UPDATED
Acer and its former chief executive Gianfranco Lanci may have parted ways for almost a year now, but it is apparently not quite water under the bridge between the two sides. The Taiwanese company said on Tuesday that it has …Continue reading: "A...
Markets Live transcript 7 Feb 2012
Markets Live chat transcript for the chat ending at 12:06 on 7 Feb 2012. Participants in this chat were: Paul Murphy Bryce Elder/FT PM MorningPM Welcome to Markets Live...
Collateralised commodity borrowing, BP edition
From BP’s fourth quarter results on Tuesday:At 31 December 2011, $131 million of finance debt ($128 million at 30 September 2011 and $790 million at 31 December 2010)...
