The recent news that social networking site Facebook had reached its 500 millionth customer goes far beyond the direct consumer market and shows the raw power of technology in today’s fast moving business scene.
Plans to move office have without doubt stayed on the drawing board for many businesses in recent years as they have hunkered down from the battered economy.
Times may remain tough but there is still plenty to applaud in the property industry. This year’s Insider Property gala dinner in Leeds will do just that as we honour the cream of the crop in our range of awards.
2010 didn’t see the rush to company flotations that many in the market expected, but what are the prospects for the second half of the year and moving into 2011?
Insider Dealmakers Dinner is the corporate finance event of the year, giving financiers the opportunity to shout about the transactions that they have delivered over the past 12 months.
Some of the most damaging frauds can be committed very close to home within businesses when trusted employees take matters into their own hands and cheat the company. Indeed such instances, whether large or small, are sure to have become even more common during the downturn as finances become tight for many employees.
Read national newspapers and it is the likes of towns such as Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster that continue to get a bad press in terms of how their economies are faring as we come out of the downturn.
The Leeds city economy finds itself at something of a crossroads as it recovers from the downturn in its financial services and property sectors and attempts to reposition itself in the wider national economy.
