Help To Buy: Doubts Over Success Of Scheme

By Poppy Trowbridge, Business and Economics Correspondent The second phase of the government mortgage guarantee scheme, Help to Buy, is due to launch next week, three months earlier than expected - but experts are sceptical the initiative will help...

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Twitter IPO: Company Hopes To Raise $1bn

Twitter has unsealed the documents for its initial public offering of stock, saying it hopes to raise up to $1bn. It generated $317m (£200m) in revenue in 2012, driven largely by advertising. Twitter had more than 215 million active users as of the...

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Twitter IPO: Company Hopes To Raise $1bn

Twitter has unsealed the documents for its initial public offering of stock, saying it hopes to raise up to $1bn. The company has also disclosed it generated $317m (£196m) in revenue in 2012, and that it has more than 215 million active users. Twitter...

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HTC One Smartphone Wins At T3 Gadget Awards

By Stuart Duggan, at the T3 Awards HTC was the big winner at the T3 Gadget Awards with the company's HTC One smartphone picking up three prizes. The Android handset beat both the Apple iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S4 to win Phone of the Year...

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Ryanair Fined £6.7m For Labour Law Breach

Ryanair has been ordered to pay fines and damages totalling £6.7m by a French court for violating the country's labour laws. The no-frills carrier faced several charges including registering workers employed in France as Irish employees, preventing...

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David Cameron: Young Should 'Earn Or Learn'

David Cameron has announced that under-25s could be banned from claiming benefits in his speech to close the Conservative conference. The Prime Minister signalled that young people would have to "earn or learn" as he promised to "nag and push and guide"...

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Cyber Crime: Banks Ordered To Bolster Defences

The Bank of England is drawing up a "concrete plan" to help protect the UK's banking system from the mounting threat of cyber attack. The development emerged in minutes of last month's meeting of the Financial Policy Committee (FPC), which is charged...

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US Shutdown Is 'Ideological Crusade' - Obama

President Barack Obama has urged Republicans in Congress to reopen the government, saying "one faction of one party" does not get to "hold the economy hostage over an ideological crusade". Speaking from the White House Rose Garden more than 12 hours...

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Osborne Wants Fuel Duty Frozen Until 2015

Fuel duty will be frozen until 2015 if the money is available, George Osborne has told the Tory party conference. The Chancellor revealed he aims to cancel the 2p-a-litre rise pencilled in by Labour for September 2014, continuing a freeze that has already...

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US Shutdown: Deadline Passes Without Approval

US Government Shutdown Q&A Updated: 5:35am UK, Tuesday 01 October 2013 Why is this happening now? Normally the US federal budget is decided in March. Although it is proposed by the executive, headed by the president, it has to be put into law...

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Singapore Fund Swoops For Royal Mail Stake

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor A Singaporean state-backed fund is poised to become a significant shareholder in Royal Mail amid strong overseas demand for the postal operator's shares. Sky News has learnt that the Government Investment Corporation...

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Chancellor: 'Jobless Must Work For The Dole'

The long-term unemployed will have to earn their benefits by doing full-time unpaid community work from next year. Chancellor George Osborne is to give details of tough new conditions being attached to unemployment handouts - pledging to end the "something...

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