Need help with your home computer? Perhaps you call up The TechGuys, owned by PC World (LON:DSGI), or the Geek Squad, from Carphone Warehouse (LON:CPW).

Now there’s a new outfit in town, says Penny Sleuth UK editor Tom Bulford. It’s called Nerd Force. And Tom reckons it’s a good buy.

Nerd Force is owned by by Nexus Management (LON:NXS), a small UK company whose shares trade on AIM at a price of just 0.8p. It also have twenty years of IT experience. If NXS can handle the roll-out successfully, its shares can only rise.

There is nothing like being knocked off a bicycle by a passing car to change one’s attitude towards the compensation culture. This personal experience is one reason why Jason Smart, Managing Director of LitComp, is confident of the future of this small company that moved from Ofex to AIM in 2006.

It’s not all bad news…There are some great companies out there…So don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater… Trepidation has taken the place of anticipation.

Iran is rich in more than oil. It also has massive metals deposits. Persian Gold estimates there are 160,000 ounces of gold and 1,000,000 ounces of silver in one of its sites alone. If you can stand the political heat, get in now, says Tom Bulford…

Primary schools, I read, are to get thirteen thousand extra maths teachers. This is the result of a study that revealed that the majority of teachers lacked the confidence in their own numerical skills to teach pupils properly.