William Hill write-down slashes value of bookie’s Australian operation
The first rule of gambling: ‘The house always wins.’ So how has William Hill managed to veer so far off-course with its Australian operations?
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The business of war
THE American writer and humourist, PJ O’Rourke, spent the autumn of 1984 in Lebanon as the country’s civil war began to heat up. The...
Amazon Overflowing Into New Premises
As if Amazon’s current HQ wasn’t colossal enough, the internet-based retailer is in the market for a second mega-HQ big enough for 50,000 staff....
Arms maker Remington files for bankruptcy amid falling sales and backlash...
Debts, faulty trigger mechanisms and a link to the Sandy Hook massacre have all harmed the US gun manufacturer in recent months
REMINGTON Outdoor Company,...
Putting Liberty in the driving seat
JOHN Malone is a man of colossal wealth. A simple google search for news on the American billionaire will quickly confirm just how eye-wateringly...
Wall Street’s Second Act
Now is the time to get rich. The volume of money idling on the side lines for lack of yield now stands at an...
On a roll
All good things must come to an end, but just as the propulsion industry was preparing to write off the iconic brand of Rolls-Royce,...
Good reasons cryptocurrency is likely to become ‘the future of commerce’
Analyst BRIAN G. SEWELL speculates that Bitcoin et al, although flawed, will change the way the world does business
I WOULD rather see the SEC...
Slaves to the algorithm: does it all add up?
Can the advanced functional process of stringing optional commands together really have a successful business application? DARREN PARKIN finds out
THE image of Greek mathematician...
Clean? Check. Cool? Check. But e-vehicles have poke too
Hot new electric wheels offer more than just zero emissions – the latest offerings have some serious grunt, too
By HAL WILLIAMS
THE TIMES are changing,...
