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Demo is now live, providing loads of info and complete with ludicrously over-the-top background music and Hollywood blockbuster-style voice-over.

http://marketing.insider.thomsonreuters.com/landing/explore/index.html#/reuters-insider-overview

No.

This looks a bit like a late-in-the-day attempt from a pre-net dinosaur to keep up with competitors that understand the market better.

Being able to store card and address details is fairly useful but don't PayPal, Google and Amazon all offer that already?

The rest of the features strike me as gimmicks from a firm trying to throw in something 'networky'. Inviting friends to give their advice on purchases? Via e-mail? As for the 'community' site, doesn't look as though anyone has used it for at least a month.

Looks like it has a built in battery back-up that will last four hours and can be plugged in to the mains as well (although as the solar option is being pushed as an alternative to unreliable grid power in rural areas, this seems a bit odd).

Link to Vortex page:

http://www.vortexindia.co.in/html/gramateller.php

Citi apology posted here.

Goldberg has published an apology from Citi here.

Obopay deserves its place on the list, if only as a representative of mobile banking and payments, which I'd say is a "great" financial innovation.

Applying Volcker's criteria, it does help people and is useful, particularly for the hundreds of millions of unbanked people in the developing world.

So, I say the former Fed chief and (with all due respect boss!) you are dead wrong.

But Goldman's nice...it just cut its bonus pool to a mere $16 billion and decided to give some money to charity.

Creative? Maybe not, but the fact is the City played a major part in a recession that has cost a lot of people their jobs. Fred the Shred may no longer be in the building but the repercussions of his actions, and the actions of others, are still very real to some - so if they want to protest, fruitlessly or not, it's their choice.

Sorry Liz, can't help feeling your sympathies are with the wrong people. So, some protestors wanting to make a point about jobs decide to do it outside RBS - how mean!