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Experian director joins Hornbuckle Mitchell Hornbuckle Mitchell has appointed John Jennings as operations director. Jennings has held numerous roles in financial services management roles, notably with Prudential and Egg. www.moneymarketing.co.uk
Google’s “reach†is declining: study Recently, the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance rolled out its first big change to the public – Yahoo! organic search results are now driven by Bing’s algorithms in the US and Canada. www.eyefortravel.com
Automotive insolvencies drop in July The rate of business insolvencies for the automotive industry fell from 0.14% in July 2009 to 0.10% in July 2010, according to the latest insolvency and late payment indices from Experian. www.am-online.com
How to avoid internet phishing scams Cyber crime is on the rise with iTunes customers' the latest to have been targeted by fraudsters. www.telegraph.co.uk
Evening Times Top department store Harvey Nichols is opening a store in Glasgow. The celeb-fave shop – nicknamed Harvey Nicks – is moving into the newly-revamped St Enoch Centre in time for Christmas. www.eveningtimes.co.uk
Peer-to-peer lending and saving: Making everyone happy Funding Circle gives savers interest of up to 9% and small businesses cheap loans. But what are the risks of peer-to-peer lending over the internet? Small businesses are starved of loans from Britain's cash-strapped banks and savers are receiving miserable interest rates on their deposits. How about bringing them together on the internet and cutting out the banks, so that businesses find loans ... www.guardian.co.uk
Experian chief Don Robert on bounty hunting and catching fraudsters Experian is best known for checking consumer credit histories but it also has an expanded remit in catching benefit cheats. www.telegraph.co.uk
Still watching Behind the scenes, is it business as usual for the 'database state'? www.bbc.co.uk
Google continues to be an attractive traffic source for the travel sector Google is highly valuable as a source of traffic to key U.S. industries, according to an analysis by online competitive intelligence service Experian Hitwise. Search engines continue to be the primary way Internet users navigate to key industry categories and this includes the travel sector, too. www.eyefortravel.com
Experian On 11 August we ran an item about one person's experience obtaining a credit report ("How I became an innocent victim of the credit agency"). The credit reference agency concerned was wrongly identified as Experian: a mistake for which we apologise. www.independent.co.uk
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