Ebay became a victim of its own success at the weekend after a...crucial run-up to Christmas, after a computer system failure.Ebay said there had been a huge rise in the number of items listed...the worst outages suffered by the company in recent years. Ebay could be left with a hefty bill to compensate sellers for...

...exclude any R&D that results in the production of goods and services would rule out eligibility for most manufacturers," it said...April by a Skills Funding Agency and a National Apprenticeship Service but the EEF said in the interim companies were coming up against...

...regeneration, business efficiency, investment and competitiveness, employment, skills.●Further responsibilities: Business Link services delivery, promoting enterprise in disadvantaged areas, links with universities, tourism, rural strategy, Olympic Games preparation...

...significant impact in Trinidad. Although commissioned by the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit and Electoral Reform International Services, both based in London, the report will have the status of an in-house document. It was partly funded by the Commonwealth itself...

...for their pensions and training.Ipsos Mori surveyed 66 business leaders with a UK workforce of almost 1m for the CBI and Deloitte, the professional services firm. Most said they were concerned about supply chain fragility.insolvenciesunemployment

...councils" and turned on their former allies, al-Qaeda in Iraq.Iraqi officials did not...said the murders bore the signature of al-Qaeda in Iraq, which lost the ability...paramilitary groups, known as Sons of Iraq.Ihab al-Sobai, a spokesman for the local Sons...

...state funds hundreds of millions of dollars. Richard Cordray filed the lawsuit against Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings, on behalf of five Ohio public employee retirement and pension funds. He accused the ratings agencies of...

...Pakistani government did not know where al-Qaeda leaders were hiding and could not...Pakistan, reflect Washington's belief that al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden...against extremists but do not know where the al-Qaeda leaders are.But discussing al-Qaeda...

...acquisition of Bill Me Later, a credit service Ebay has integrated into its marketplaces...Skype, the internet telephony service Ebay has been trying to dispose of...Skype's founders, who sold the service to Ebay for $3.1bn in 2005, have filed...

...autumn when it hears Harris v. Jones. For the US retail mutual fund industry, Harris v. Jones is "the most important...provide the same level of service - including communications...lower court.The case, Gallus et al. v. Ameriprise, centres on complaints...