• INQ, based in London, U.K. with an office in Palo Alto, Calif. is targeting 18-28 year olds with the Cloud Touch and has focused all its devices on social networking from day one.

    FORBES: INQ Brings Out First Facebook Smartphone

  • Publicly, Mr. MacKerron uses their data to chart the hour-by-hour happiness level of London and other U.K. cities on his website.

    WSJ: The Really Smart Phone

  • Google Inc. (GOOG) was sued in London by a U.K. Internet company that previously filed a complaint with European Union regulators, sparking a two-year antitrust probe.

    FORBES: Links 11 Jan: The European Union Seems To Have It In For Google

  • Levi's first flirtation in cyberspace came in 1994 at the urging of Janie Ligon, who had just relocated from the U.S. to London to run Levi's U.K. business.

    FORBES: Digital denim

  • But the governor of the Bank of England warns that was due to the one-time economic effect of the Summer Olympics being held in London, and the U.K. economy could be back in negative growth in the fourth quarter.

    FORBES: Housing And Autos Driving U.S. Economy Higher

  • The U.K. (City of London), the U.S. (Delaware), Luxembourg, Switzerland, Cayman Islands, Ireland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Belgium and Bermuda.

    FORBES: World's Best Tax Havens

  • The LSE board may prefer the approach from Euronext--the owner of the Paris and Amsterdam stock exchanges, which pledged to give London significant control over the U.K.'s markets.

    FORBES

  • G4S had been contracted to supply 10, 400 security guards out of a force of 23, 700 for the London Games, but the U.K. government was forced to draft in 3, 500 soldiers and police personnel after the company admitted it couldn't meet its targets just 16 days before the opening event.

    WSJ: Social Media

  • In one store just outside London, in Colliers Wood, U.K., police said about 250 smartphones were stolen.

    WSJ: Global Sales of iPhone 5 Kick Off With Crowds

  • Dee Gill, a contributing editor at YCharts, is a former foreign correspondent for AP-Dow Jones News in London, where she covered the U.K. equities market and economic indicators.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Dee Gill, a senior contributing editor at YCharts, is a former foreign correspondent for AP-Dow Jones News in London, where she covered the U.K. equities market and economic indicators.

    FORBES: Connect

  • As well as being the world's 10th-richest person, Chairman David Thomson is also the third Baron Thomson of Fleet Street, that being the famous road in London on which many of the U.K.'s biggest newspapers, along with Reuters, used to be based.

    FORBES: Thomson Wins Reuters

  • It is unclear how the dual regulation would work out, with the U.K.'s Financial Services Authority overseeing the London side, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and NASD overseeing the U.S. side.

    FORBES: Nasdaq Has A Trick Up Its Sleeve

  • "National Hurricane Center" and "Weather Channel" came in fifth and sixth, and terrorist bombings in the U.K. pushed "London" into the No. 9 spot.

    FORBES: Web Users Are Just Chasing Cheesecake

  • Two U.S. exchange operators expect to secure regulatory approval for separate London-based trading platforms before the U.K. completes the transition to a new oversight regime.

    WSJ: What's News

  • Canyon Partners LLC, a money manager founded by bond experts from the former "junk"-bond shop Drexel Burnham Lambert, and CQS, a London hedge-fund firm founded by U.K. millionaire Michael Hintze, recently launched new investment funds to take advantage of bargains in distressed mortgage debt.

    WSJ: Toxic? Says Who? Taste

  • In a recent shopping study conducted by the Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K. and the London Business School, scientists found that when shoppers are asked to make a choice among common and closely related items in a grocery-store-like setting, the areas of the brain involved in memory light up like a July 4th nighttime sky.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • London's potential was spotted by the U.K. government: policies were drawn up, bodies appointed, advisory panels selected.

    WSJ: Berlin Eyes Careful Balance To Bolster Tech Sector

  • In a recent shopping study conducted by the Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K., and the London Business School, scientists found that when shoppers are asked to make a choice among common and closely related items in a grocery-store-like setting, the areas of the brain involved in memory light up like a nighttime sky filled with fireworks.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • 's U.K. newspaper unit appeared in London's central criminal court on two separate matters, but their cases were adjourned to a later date.

    WSJ: Ex-Sun Reporter Pleads Not Guilty

  • In London, the FTSE 100 shed 1% after U.K. unemployment rose to 7.9%, higher than expectations, while the number of unemployed increased in the three months ended in February to the highest level in nearly 18 months.

    WSJ: Dow Finishes With Triple-Digit Drop

  • These are the 10 most significant secrecy jurisdictions in the world, in the opinion of the Tax Justice Network: the U.S. (Delaware), Luxembourg, Switzerland, Cayman Islands, the U.K. (City of London), Ireland, Bermuda, Singapore, Belgium and Hong Kong.

    FORBES

  • It was announced in the FT today that the Financial Services Authority expects banks to reduce or clawback bonuses in British banks and non-U.K. banks with operations in London as a result of the series of scandals that have wrought the industry during 2012.

    FORBES: It Is Time For Real Bank Clawbacks

  • The U.K. Treasury is overhauling regulations so London can take the lead in developing a secondary market.

    FORBES: Don't Call It Interest

  • London, England (CNN) -- A U.K. firm is set to launch a camera to capture every moment of a person's life.

    CNN: Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun

  • Kodak's largest plant in the U.K. is in Harrow, near London, and manufactures color photographic paper and used to make film products, a person close to the company said.

    WSJ: Kodak Transfers Business to U.K. Retirees to Erase Pension Obligation

  • From Andy Murray's U.S. Open triumph to Bradley Wiggins's victory in the Tour de France and the country's historic medal haul at the London Olympics, it has been an unforgettable summer of U.K. sport.

    WSJ: Tip of the Day

  • One way to get on a Englishman's wick is to offer a piffling 560 pence per share for the London Stock Exchange, the primary stock exchange in the U.K. and the largest in Europe.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "BP must be relieved that along with these numbers 2006 can finally be consigned to history, " said Richard Hunter, head of U.K. equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers in London.

    FORBES: BP Loses Steam

  • Consider, for example, the solution that the U.K. adopted to prevent the flooding of London by surge tides that occur under certain meteorological conditions and because tide levels have been rising two feet per century.

    FORBES: Beyond Copenhagen

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