11 hours ago
Milicruit is, alas, not a recruitment site for future leaders of the Labour Party but a virtual career fair that puts together former members of the US military and potential employers in "an interactive 3-D virtual setting". The notion has one huge advantage for companies such as UBM that operate such "events": they are an awful lot cheaper than their real-world equivalent. UBM shares change hands on less than 12 times this year's earnings. A good play on economic recovery, says the Times.
Milicruit is, alas, not a recruitment site for future leaders of the Labour Party but a virtual career fair that puts together former members of the US military and potential employers in "an interactive 3-D virtual setting". The notion has one huge advantage for companies such as UBM that operate such "events": they are an awful lot cheaper than their real-world equivalent. UBM shares change hands on less than 12 times this year's earnings. A good play on economic recovery, says the Times. 11 hours ago
Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao has taken about a billion of costs out of the group, which will generate free cashflow of £6.5bn over each of the next three years. Yesterday
Mothercare shares have taken a battering since the spring and closed last week at 511p. With profits this year expected to reach £45 million and earnings per share at 38p,that is not a cheap valuation, unless you believe that there are good growth prospects. 4 days ago
The industrial services group Amec is an easy tip - a fact confirmed by yesterday's first-half financial results, says the Independent. 6 days ago
Aidan Heavey, the founder and chief executive of Tullow Oil, said that he "didn't think it was a big deal" when he updated the market, while presenting Tullow's interim figures, on the company's progress in a complex tussle with the Ugandan tax authorities. 8 days ago
Cairn Energy's new focus is Greenland, as the chief executive, Sir Bill Gammell, stressed yesterday. 8 days ago