When you're a billionaire who owns a Formula 1 team, what do you put up as collateral in a bet with rival F1 team and airline-owning billionaires? Why, your dignity of course. This is what happens when you lose a bet over whose team is better. Read More >>
Richard Branson: eccentric billionaire, adrenaline junky, sworn enemy of neckties, and now... matchmaker. That's right—Richard Branson wants to get you laid. What's more, he wants to get you laid in a goddamn airplane. Read More >>
Which would you like more? £1 million, or the chance to knee the long-haired Virgin Atlantic owner in the family jewels? If you're the boss of British Airways, it's quite clearly the latter. Read More >>
Featured comment by shadowmatt:
"When people truly realise Branson is helping privatise the NHS while making a fortune doing it I think quite a lot more people would like to see him k..." More »
As well as being the first man on Mars, running aeroplane fleets, blogging about trains, owning banks and probably even encouraging his children to make a bit on the side by coldly eBaying their childhood toys, Richard Branson now has a new business venture -- Dubstep DJ. Read More >>
In an interview with a US news station, Richard Branson has revealed this he'll be taking his kids up with him when the first Virgin Galactic edge-of-space planes start running next year -- but a mission to Mars is his new ultimate fantasy. Read More >>
Looks like we're missing this target, but no fret, Branson and co. have announced the scheduled departure of the first Virgin Galactic space flight on board SpaceShipTwo. Read More >>
Featured comment by beardyman:
"Not sure how far Branson is 'pulling his finger out'
From 2008:
"Virgin Galactic was predicting that it would begin flight testing in 2008 and make ..." More »
Larry Ellison, the sixth richest man in the world, has just bought 98 per cent of Lanai, the sixth largest island in Hawaii. All the other kids at the billionaires club must have been bullying Ellison over his private island credentials, because his newly purchased chunk of America is 1000 times bigger than Branson's puny piece of off-shore real estate, that'll show 'em. Read More >>
Trying to predict Richard Branson's next business move is harder than winning the lottery. The man has conquered media, the airlines, and has now set his sights on your kitchen sink with his new Virgin Pure water filtration unit that promises a better H2O experience. Read More >>
Virgin Media's latest TV advert, which stars former Doctor Who actor David Tennant, has angered the BBC, which considers Virgin's use of the time travelling theme to be a little too close to cashing in on the long-running sci-fi adventure series. Read More >>
Featured comment by cashback:
"It is infringement and we saw it on sky the other day... I was just telling my son that it’s an infringement. The law requires there to be striking ..." More »
The bad man who was hoping the world of the future might have need of Richard Branson pornography has been defeated. Australian domain squatter Sean Truman was deemed to have registered richardbranson.xxx in bad faith and has been ordered to hand it over. The site is now in our bookmarks in anticipation of Richard's next move. [The Register] Read More >>
Featured comment by Baseball Fun with Domains, Nominet Brings .Wales, & No .XXX for Branson | | Domain MonetiserDomain Monetiser:
"[...] finally, Sir Richard Brandson gained the rights to richardbrandson.xxx in what some are hailing a “porn squatting” victory. Spons..." More »
According to quotes apparently coming from Simon Cowell today, a deal with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tourism venture could see the winner of 2012's Britain's Got Talent sent into space on one of the first private space trips. Read More >>
13 
