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160 Reasons To Not Use Etrade UK

Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in money | 9 Comments »

I have been trading with Etrade UK quite actively and have about 160 transactions in my account. I was amazed to find out the other day that Etrade UK offers no way to export your account history data, so that ...

Adobe UK vs US Pricing

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in computing, money | No Comments »

I purchased a copy of Adobe's "Creative Suite 3 Web Premium" today, but I did so via the Adobe US store rather than the UK store and saved £604/$1209 by doing so. Adobe sell the product for $1599 on the US ...

JumpTV builds $49m .ppt, $1m CDN

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in money, technology | 1 Comment »

BeetTV reports that JumpTV has invested $50 million in a proprietary content delivery network (CDN), because the existing CDNs "couldn't provide what they need". Akamai is one of those existing CDNs. If you haven't dealt with Akamai before the bottom line ...

UK to scare off entrepreneurs

Saturday, October 13th, 2007 Posted in money | No Comments »

The UK is proposing to bring in a flat rate capital gains tax (CGT) at 18%. The base CGT tax at current is 40% but there is relief for certain assets and holding periods. One such relief is "business taper ...