News Headlines - 29 July 2010

▽Plan to axe fixed retirement age - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10796718
The government is planning to scrap the default retirement age in the UK from October 2011.

▽It's heartbreaking how the banks are starving businesses of cash, says King - Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1298529/Its-heartbreaking-banks-starving-businesses-cash-says-King.html
Bank of England governor Mervyn King yesterday attacked the banks for destroying small firms by starving them of cash.

▽Amazon launches UK version of Kindle - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/amazon/7914327/Amazon-launches-UK-version-of-Kindle.html
The long-awaited UK launch follows the American launch of the original Kindle in November 2007.

▽Mobile spectrum auction for UK ‘soon’ - FT
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/93726538-99af-11df-a852-00144feab49a.html
Mobile operators will finally be able to bid for new spectrum next year to enable improved wireless broadband services, after protracted delays to the auction process.

▽FBI and military investigating source of leaked Afghan war documents - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/28/AR2010072806012.html
The FBI and the Justice Department are working with the military to investigate the source of the leak of tens of thousands of classified military documents on the Afghan war to WikiLeaks.org, U.S. officials said Wednesday.