How to make money on Facebook
By Melissa Hancock
Facebook apps can be a real money-spinner. Just ask Arena Flowers MD Will Wynne...

Facebook and your business – part 3
By Dan Matthews
In this, the final instalment, we assess Facebook's ability to set agendas; how it channels people power, and how it makes or breaks business' reputations.

Facebook and your business – part 2
By Dan Matthews
In part 2 of Facebook and your business, Dan Matthews suggests how businesses can use Facebook and other social media for marketing, market research and harpooning rivals.

Facebook and your business – part 1
By Dan Matthews
Facebook is a massive, sprawling web phenomenon. It demands your attention because it could make or break your business. Dan Matthews explains why, and what you can do to survive.

Blowing phishers out of the water
By Melissa Hancock
MessageLabs is the story of how two brothers in Gloucester created a multi-national commercial business. Set up by Ben and Jos White eight years ago, today the anti-virus software company boasts more than seven million computer users globally across 86 countries.

Reduce IT costs, go to Russia
By Rebecca Burn-Callander
If you want to get your IT management system up to scratch, look to Russia. It could even help you float on AIM.

Insurance renewal by text
By Catherine Woods
Most things can be done by text message these days, so why not insurance renewal?

Searching for success
By Catherine Woods
Online advertising spend in the UK is soaring. No surprises there for Dominic Hayhoe, founder of Forces Reunited, who says it’s the only thing that works.

Scrap paper, make £20m
By Matthew Rock
Publishing entrepreneurs Marco Dell'Aquila and Nick Imregi went online-only and just sold their publishing company for £20m to Emap.

All I want for Xmas is... my placenta?
By Melissa Hancock
Britain's "umbilical entrepreneurs" have a message for Santa...