Vince Cable’s snub was hailed by Bob Crow, the general secretary of the Rail and Maritime Union. Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA Trade unionists have withdrawn Vince Cable’s invitation to speak at the TUC congress this autumn after the business secretary had publicly confirmed he would... 

European commission’s investigation focuses on alleged discriminatory behaviour by IBM towards rival suppliers of mainframe computers. Photograph Corbis EU regulators have begun two investigations into IBM, the world’s largest computer services firm, following accusations the American... 

Vince Cable warned that the Labour government’s target of extending higher education to 50% of the population is likely to be scrapped. Photograph: Handout/Getty Images The government signalled the biggest shakeup of Britain’s universities in a generation today, with a blueprint... 

The old battlefields of the middle ages are not gone, they have merely changed form. Hundreds of years ago normal men would set out to build their empires by conquering lands through the force of arms. Today, normal men like you and i set out to build our financial empires by conquering markets throught the force... 

Sir John Bond, chairman at Vodafone, has come under pressure in the run-up to the group’s AGM Photograph: Frank Baron for the Guardian Vodafone chairman Sir John Bond survived an attack from rebel shareholders at the company’s annual meeting today. More than 6.5% of investors who... 

A woman sits with her child in a forest village near the mining site of Vedanta’s alumina refinery. Photograph: Parth Sanyal / Reuters Mining company Vedanta today dismissed as “incorrect” an Amnesty International report that accused the firm of human rights abuses and damaging...