Global Gaming Factory X's planned takeover of torrent tracking site The Pirate Bay could be on the skids, with reports of significant debts and a halt on trading its shares.

Ruminating on what makes Apple different to other PC companies, a few truisms spring to mind...

While news channels still report the daily stock market moves from the floor of the exchange, the real US trading action is increasingly taking place in "dark pools" managed by computers.

The recording and film industries are structured around distribution of physical items - getting bits of shellac or vinyl or plastic into shops, celluloid into cinemas.