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Stock market update

Housebuilders stormed ahead today after Taylor Wimpey cheered sentiment with an upbeat assessment of the UK property market.Read

Oil jobs dispute intensifies

A dispute over jobs at an oil refinery has intensified after the sacking of hundreds of workers who have been taking unofficial industrial action.Read

Outsourcing boosts profits at recruitment firm

Recruitment firm Harvey Nash today said it was riding out a bleak jobs market as clients look to cut costs through offshoring and outsourcing business.Read

Builder Taylor Wimpey upbeat on house market

Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey today said the UK housing market should avoid a ``severe" downturn as recent signs gave hope of a recovery.Read

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Creating a new digital lease of life

OFFICES which have been derelict on Newcastle’s Quayside for close to a decade are to undergo a £1m transformation into a hub for digital and creative businesses.Read

Tag n Go inventors cease trading

A NORTHUMBERLAND company which developed pioneering child safety technology has called in the liquidators.Read

SOCIAL CARE

New £7.5m care homeRead

US parent's woe forces studio to seek rescue

BOSSES at a video games developer are in a race against time to save the firm and the jobs of its 74 workers.Read

Transport group Go-Ahead in line to meet expectations

BUS and train operator Go-Ahead said it was performing as expected and would meet internal hopes for full-year profit as passenger numbers continue to rise despite the recession. The Newcastle company said it remains confident that it will deliver a full-year to June 27 operating performance in line with our expectations.Read

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Tyneside firm will replace call centre workers with robots

A FIRM which aims to replace call centre workers with artificially intelligent "robots" will open a sales and marketing centre in the region later this year, before ambitious plans to create scores of jobs.Read

CONNECT wins new investment

A PROJECT marrying the brightest technology companies in the region with the major investment needed to become world class has won funding to continue its work.Read

Game Horizon conference to help North East companies

VIDEO games firms in the region will next week find out why the best things in life are free, particularly in their bid to battle through the recession.Read

Online business thriving through the recession

DESPITE a lack of assistance from either the Government or banks, many online businesses are apparently finding alternative ways to elevate themselves out of the recession.Read

Newcastle scientist Dr Son Le given MBE

A LEADING scientist who learned his trade at Newcastle University has been made an MBE for services to the water industry.Read

Sales coaching firm to boost technology sector

A FORMER director of the world's largest e-learning company has set up a consultancy in the North East to give technology firms a boost when selling their wares.Read

On Net Communications wins investment to expand

A £60,000 funding boost will help a call centre operator invest in new technology that could help it grow its annual turnover by a third past the £1m mark.Read

GCSEPod to help students pass exams

GCSE students with exams looming can cram in some last-minute revision online with the help of a North East digital firm.Read

Dr Guy Turnbull

Helping others help themselves in an ethical way

WHILE the commercial banks flounder, the co-operatives will flourish and the world will be a better place for everyone.Read

Journalist consults a new career

A FORMER journalist and broadcaster who made his name in a career spanning more than 25 years at the BBC, Border Television and Trinity Mirror, has set up his own consultancy firm.Read

Expansion's name of game for stallholders

A FORMER Newcastle market stall has enjoyed the fastest year of growth in its history – in which it has taken on 60 staff – and now plans to open 29 more stores in the next three years.Read

Author Profile

Andrew Mernin is an online business reporter for The Journal who covers general business stories and looks after the nebusiness.co.uk website. He also writes the weekly four-page technology supplement nedigital business. He was formerly a business reporter on Arabian Business, the biggest-selling business magazine in the Middle East.

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