Feb 16th, 2010 · Verizon may soon allow its customers to make free or low-cost internet phone calls over its wireless network using Skype. According to Britain's Financial Times, the companies are set to announce a deal. Verizon would be the first major U.S. wireless carrier to allow Skype on its network.
Feb 15th, 2010 · With distractions constantly popping up in the workplace — from emails to telephone calls — it seems hard to get any work done. Also interfering with getting work done is trying to multi-task and memory. Renee Montagne talks to Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway about time management — or the lack there of — in her life and in the lives of workers everywhere.
Feb 5th, 2010 · Stock markets in the U.S. and Europe have taken a beating in recent days because of worries about the debt crisis in Greece, Portugal, Spain and some other European countries. Financial Times reporter Stacy-Marie Ishmael says while they may seem like small players in the global economy, they are not.
Nov 22nd, 2009 · Billionaire investor Raj Rajaratnam was arrested last month and charged with running the biggest insider trading scheme involving a hedge fund. Twenty people from across corporate America have now been charged or arrested in connection with the case, and the scandal now involves some of the country's best-known companies. Host Liane Hansen speaks with Joanna Chung, U.S. financial correspondent for the Financial Times.
Nov 9th, 2009 · The hot toy in the run-up to this year's holidays is apparently a $10 computerized hamster. The Financial Times reports that demand for the hamsters, which have names likes Mr. Squiggles, Chunk and Pipsqueak, is so high, Toys R Us did not even list them in its Christmas toy catalogue — word of mouth was enough. The furry playmates are embedded with a computer chip so they can squeak, chirp and respond to human touch.
Jul 14th, 2009 · A recent survey shows that 25 percent of U.S. corporate board members are women. Some people, even a recent book, argue that more women on a board means better-run companies and more profits. Lucy Kellaway, a columnist for the Financial Times in London talks with Renee Montagne about whether that idea is true.
Jun 24th, 2009 · The recession is changing the workplace in many ways. Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway says many workers are kicking it up a notch with dressier work clothes and more formal e-mails. Kellaway tells Renee Montagne that's because employees are trying to hold onto their jobs.
Mar 27th, 2009 · Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis has said he wants to begin repaying in April the roughly $45 billion the company received from the federal bailout. Saskia Scholtes, who covers U.S. financial services for the Financial Times, discusses the banks that are seeking to repay the bailout funds.