The Apprentice final has been moved from its regular weekday slot to Sunday evening.
The conclusion of series five will air on Sunday, June 7 at 9pm on BBC One.
The new timeslot means that Sir Alan Sugar’s show will not clash with ITV’s coverage of an England World Cup qualifier with Andorra.
Record numbers of people called into work sick this morning (thu) following Manchester United’s defeat in the Champion’s League Final.
Some of the UK’s brightest female entrepreneurs are defying the recession by developing and growing new business ventures. They were celebrated recently at The FreshIdeas Events Mentor Competition Awards, held at HSBC, Mayfair.
Unless you have been living in splendid isolation in recent months, you will have struggled to avoid the latest online social networking craze ‘Twitter’. Andy Lopata, business networking specialist, looks at how Twitter, Hot on the heels of ‘Facebook’ as the next great communication tool, it is being championed by celebrities such as Jonathan Ross and Stephen Fry, used by politicians such as Barack Obama and adopted by people of all ages and walks of life at a rapid rate.
Bill Morrow, co-founder of Angels Den looks at whether successful business investors need to be nice guys, or do you have to be a nasty piece of work to make it out there in the big bad world of business?
The BBC has confirmed that it is to launch a junior version of hit business reality show The Apprentice, in which Sir Alan Sugar will get to point his finger and tell 16- and 17-year-olds “You’re fired!”
Junior Apprentice, which will air next year as a five-part BBC1 series, will feature 10 candidates and follow the same format as the main show, although some adjustments will be made to take account of the age of those taking part.
Doug Richard, former Dragons’ Den panellist; Tim Campbell, the first winner of The Apprentice; and Deirdre Bounds, star of Channel 4’s Millionaires’ Mission, have all signed up to take part in The Pitch 2009, a competition which is going on the road to track down the UK’s most innovative small companies.
Over half of employees are working from home more often since the financial crisis began, according to new research from BT Business and Remote Employment, released as people prepared for the National Work From Home Day.
Dragon Duncan Bannatyne’s health club business has prospered despite the recession after it shifted focus from expansion to maximising profits.
In a previous post, we mentioned one way to manage your online brand was to set up a personal Web site. To do that, you need to register a domain name and pick a Web hosting service. The sheer number of hosting companies, however, can make selecting one more difficult. Here is a checklist of questions to bear in mind.
So you need to build a website and instead of paying a web design company you want to A critical part of this process involves deciding how you want your Web site to look. We talked to Sean Brown, interaction design director who oversees the layout of the company’s men.style.com and style.com Web sites, to offer some design dos and don’ts.
In a previous post Azadeh Ensha offered up 10 ways to design a good Web site. Unfortunately, even the best-designed site won’t serve its purpose unless it is scoring page views. Below are some ways to help maximize your site’s traffic.
The alleged relationship between The Apprentice contestants Philip Taylor and Kate Walsh comes to light on tonight’s show, it has been claimed.
Media reports have suggested that the pair are”blissfully happy” together, with Taylor supposedly meeting Walsh’s mother.
A show source said: “Kate and Philip are mixing business with pleasure – and it’s not having a positive effect on them selling. Their relationship is a big part of this week’s show.”
During tonight’s show, Taylor suggests a pub visit to Walsh and fellow contestant Lorraine Tighe expresses annoyance at the pair.
Tighe said: “I want to know what is causing all the distractions. And I hope for Kate, Phil and Ben’s sake it is not Kate’s beauty.”
Walsh has claimed that although she shared a kiss with Taylor, they did not have a fully-fledged fling.
A little while ago a member of the Business Matters Magazine Facebook Group posed a question:
“Networking events…….do they work?”
The questioner went on to explain, “Over the past year I have been overwhelmed by the volume of networking events that have been shoveled through my letter box but I have had a busy time so attending has not been a priority.
The fiercely addictive BlackBerry – aka the “CrackBerry” – has become the mobile of choice for those wanting to access email on the go, and has been priced at a level that has put off all but the most dedicated.
