Business Analysis & Features

A customer reads The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at a bookshop in Clapham, South London

The publishing house that Stieg Larsson built

Nick Clark: When Quercus bought 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' it was a tiny firm in a rented office. Yesterday, from its West End HQ, it revealed record sales of £15m a year

Inside Business Analysis & Features

Liverpool fans display banners in Hong Kong, where prospective new owner Kenny Huang has business interests

Does the Chinese government really want to own Liverpool?

Friday, 6 August 2010

Nick Harris: Deal would be latest case of Beijing flexing its financial muscles abroad

Kristian Segerstrale: Face of the social gaming revolution

Thursday, 5 August 2010

The Business Interview: The founder of Playfish tells Nick Clark how his industry came from nothing to earnings approaching $1bn in revenues in a few short years

Crozier draws up strategy to make ITV 'fit for purpose'

Wednesday, 4 August 2010

ITV's chief executive, Adam Crozier, and chairman, Archie Norman, have presented their vision of a network more in step with 21st-century broadcasting

HSBC defies the banks' critics as the city shines again

Tuesday, 3 August 2010

A sharp fall in bad debts has helped the bank to profits of $11bn, with the US the only region to make a loss. James Moore reports

Cameron & Co woo India as demand for retail goods rockets

Sunday, 1 August 2010

We've always enjoyed Indian imports, but the sub-continent's own market is now soaring – and the PM hopes it will rescue our economy

Syndicates are fun, but they're not a racing cert

Sunday, 1 August 2010

There's glamour, thrills galore, and the joy of a big win, but investors mustn't mind taking the odd tumble too

Bush backers engulfed in $550m scandal

Saturday, 31 July 2010

The billionaire Wyly brothers are Texas royalty and high-profile Republican donors, but the SEC claims they made millions from insider trading, reports James Moore

The business on...Alan Brown, Chief executive, Rentokil Initial

Saturday, 31 July 2010

So he's the rat-catcher-in-chief?Rentokil does indeed have a pest control business, but it has other strings to its bow, too – everything from cleaning to courier services.

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Columnist Comments

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Hamish McRae: Buying a football club

If China is indeed about to buy into Liverpool it would represent a new direction in its investment programme

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Terence Blacker: Grumpily is no way to grow old

Now and then, about once a year, the stage of public life darkens as a leading player makes his entrance

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Philip Hensher: Works of art are not child's play

There's no such thing as a slump in art sales, it seems, for some artists

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