Browsing the BBC’s news this morning I came across this article about the MacBook Air, Apple’s new ultra-thin laptop (sorry I think I’ll stick to my Asus EEE PC at 20% of the price), hidden away at the end of the article however was the news that:

Apple announced it had sold four million iPhones in [...]

This weeks pitches on Dragons’ Den were:

Tidy Tree Sack - Which is a “Two-in-One Christmas Tree Skirt & Tree Removal Bag”. Looking for £150K investment in return for 40% equity. I can see it selling, I’d buy one, but I don’t see why an investment of £150k would be needed. Nor do I believe that [...]

This weeks pitches on Dragons’ Den were:

tingotang - is a symbol for single people, described as a simple way to show people you are single, friendly and approachable. They were looking for an investment of £100K and offering 20% equity in return. They were intending to spend £13K on a PR campaign but didn’t explain [...]

This weeks pitches on Dragons’ Den were:

Fit-Fur-Life - A treadmill for our furry friends. She was looking for £100K in return for 25% equity. It’s aimed at vets, police and animal trainers for recuperation, although much as I hate to say it I can see a cheaper version selling to lazy people for their pet [...]

I saw over on TechCrunch UK that ex Dragon Doug Richards is looking for “very young startups who have web companies that think they could go big”. According to the TechCrunch UK:

Doug emailed [them] to say: “I will be arranging an informal pitching morning and from that I will choose one company who will have [...]

This week the business ideas pitched on Dragons’ Den were:

Back To The Movies - This was a new musical production playing tribute to movie sound tracks. Aimed at everyone unfortunately with only one night booked it didn’t look like it was going to be a success and a marketing budget of £300 per venue is [...]

A new study shows that Gordon Brown’s popularity with SME business owners is currently at an all-time low. A substantial 71% of SME business owners and managers now believe that Brown and Alistair Darling are bad news for UK enterprise, according to a survey by research consultancy FreshMinds.
Nearly half of those who took part were [...]

I’ve just found out about Microsoft Office Accounting via the AccMan blog which referred me to an article on AccountingWeb which says:

I have had a good look at the new program over the last couple of weeks and I have to say it’s impressive. The name tells you why – this is Office Accounting 2008. [...]

Vodaphone has recently polled 1,100 British business and found that almost half (47%) of the entrepreneurs in their early 20s preferred to network online. This should be a wakeup call for many small businesses, you need a website and an email address. More importantly you need to make sure that the emails are read and [...]

It seems that yet another intrepid inventor has been fascinated by the business opportunities offered by wobbly tables and chairs. First there was Stabletable which featured on Dragon’s Den where it didn’t get any investment because it was too likely to be copied. Although it’s since been claimed that the Dragons were wrong about Stabletable. [...]