Nine hundred people talking animatedly online about brown clinker – a cement ingredient – doesn’t sound much of a vision. But it may be exactly what computer visionaries had in mind when they first envisaged computerised collaboration between workers midway through the last century. Read more
MF Global’s collapse looks like a scandal
The more details emerge of the shortfall in customer funds at MF Global, the financial broker formerly headed by Jon Corzine, when it collapsed three weeks ago, the more disturbing it appears.
For a time, it seemed plausible that the funds had simply been mislaid in accounts that could not be immediately accessed when MF Global went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But the likelihood that the money was improperly used – and lost – has increased. Read more
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John Gapper is an associate editor and the chief business commentator of the FT.
He has worked for the FT since 1987, covering labour relations, banking and the media. He is co-author, with Nicholas Denton, of 'All That Glitters', an account of the collapse of Barings in 1995.
Andrew Hill is an associate editor and the management editor of the FT. He is a former City editor, financial editor, comment and analysis editor, New York bureau chief, foreign news editor and correspondent in Brussels and Milan.
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