Are you familiar with the Disney Pixar movie Up? It's one of my favorite movies and there's a particular scene that just cracks me up. Without ruining it for you if you haven't seen it, a group of dogs flying fighter planes is attacking until someone yells, Squirrel! and off they go into another direction, forgetting what they were supposed to be doing in the first place.

Online advertising’s share hits 25%, as advertisers spend £1 in every £4 on the internet. UK online advertising has bucked the recession with strong growth of 12.8% on a like-for-like basis in 2010 to reach a new milestone of £4,097 million, according to the bi-annual advertising spend study from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC.

Female entrepreneurs could give a much needed boost to the UK economy, a survey for Intuit, makers of QuickBooks financial management software for small businesses, has found.

The value of smaller private equity buyouts grew 25% in the three months to September to almost £600m, indicating a returning confidence among Britain’s small and mid-sized companies in the aftermath of recession.