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Centrica was considering increasing its offer forNorth Sea oil and gas explorer Venture Production onTuesday. The chief executive of Venture, Mike Wagstaff, andchairman John Morgan met Sam Laidlaw, Centrica's chiefexecutive, and Roger Carr, its chairman, on Monday to discuss apossible 'friendly' 1.1 billion pound ($1.61 billion) takeover.Venture is the tenth-biggest holder of gas reserves in the UKsector of the North Sea, and the meeting was understood to beco

Jeremy Warner: Can the Geithner bounce be maintained? New regulation to tame and protect the financial system should be co-ordinated on a global basis, the US Treasury Secretary said yesterday.Tim G...

We've reviewed a ton of travel-related startups here on CN from TripSay to Sosauce to GoAbroad to Driftr and more. I like checking out travel sites because I love transportation and enjoy visiting cities online that I might one day travel to offline.Today's entry is Where's Cool? Co-Founder Bill Morse calls the service, "a global Yelp for traveling hipsters". Where's Cool is currently in Alpha and has listings for about 60 cities around the world. Content is organized by category and location. Their goal is to provide information for low-budget travelers. I'd like to see public transportation information provided for each listing -- if you are going to do things low-budget, what's better than taking a train or bus instead of a cab or car service?Reviews are written locally on Where's Cool? I think it might help the site look more complete if they aggregated reviews from other trusted sources while they are building.I also think Where's Cool? could differentiate them

Redpoint Ventures has hired three experienced executives in its team. The new members are Satish Dharmaraj, co-founder of Zimbra, Nety Krishna and Pueo Keffer. Keffer will head as VP of Redpoint’s growth equity fund while Krishna and Satish joined in as partners. Krishna will also be the CTO of energy, materials and environment practice.---Related Articles at Startup Meme:ClickPass embeds Google, Hotmail, Yahoo and Facebook into its OpenID.12seconds- a micro video messaging service or call it a true “twitter video”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with about a dozen top bank chief executives on Friday, including executives from JPMorgan & Co, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

BigGav recently highlighted given in New Zealand (post immediately below this one). Below the fold is a new paper " Towards a New Sustainable Economy " by Professor Costanza (who happens to be my phd co-advisor). I agree with much of it - science is rapidly answering the questions of 'who we are' and 'what we have' - the crux is how to get from here, to what comes next. I must admit I'm very tired of the talking heads on television discussing everything about our financial crisis with no acknowledgement that ALL global currencies for past generation are functioning as fiat markers for real capital. I would fall on the floor if someone like Bob Costanza or Herman Daly was on CNN or CNBC. But the advertisers might not like it.... Toward a New ...

WESTON, FL (MARKET WIRE) Wall Street News Alert's 'stocks to watch' this morning are: BioNeutral Group, Inc. (OTCBB: BONU), JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM), The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) and Walgreens (NYSE: WAG).

Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin maintained their traditional salaries of $1 last year even as the value of their combined stakes in the Internet search leader plunged by nearly $26 billion. The paltry...

March 24, 2009 BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) -- After nearly a decade of providing free, clean public restrooms everywhere from state fairs to Times Square, Procter & Gamble Co.'s Charmin wants consumers...

Co-founder and editor-in-chief of Huffington Post announces on Facebook she will be co-hosting CNBC's 'Squawk Box.'