Insurance claims explain why an indestructible screen is top of users’ wishlist for the Apple iPhone 6 September 5, 2014 iPhones may be cool, but considering we carry them everywhere with us they're frighteningly delicate – and a new report suggests the iPhone 5 is the most vulnerable of all the models, with 47.8 per cent of insurance claims made for the phone related to some kind of damage. According to the study, just over 10 [...]
Real Madrid trump Barcelona with the highest revenue for a football club ever September 5, 2014 Real Madrid have announced total revenue of €603.9m (£479.7m) for the 2013/14 season, a new record for a football club, beating the record set by Barcelona earlier this summer. The club has recorded a 10.9 per cent increase in revenue on the previous season's €521m, and has trumped the €530m reported by arch-rivals Barcelona in [...]
Watch: Is the Ikea Bookbook the launch which could leave Apple in the shade? September 5, 2014 Ikea claims to have launched the next big thing, and we think it could take some of the polish off Apple's iPhone 6 launch next week. The Bookbook is wireless, has an eternal battery life and can double its interface from its regular 7.5 by 8-inch size to 15 inches, notes chief design guru [...]
Cameron commits 1,000 British troops to Nato-wide “rapid” force September 5, 2014 David Cameron has committed 1,000 troops to a multinational “rapid” response force in the face of “new and evolving dangers”. Speaking at the second day of the Nato summit in the Welsh city of Newport, the Prime Minister warned about “an arc of instability [that] bends from North Africa to the Middle East”, while [...]
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New Look sells French arm Mim to newly-created business Main Asia September 5, 2014 New Look has sold its French business Mim for an undisclosed sum, to a Hong Kong-based company about which relatively little information has been made available. Main Asia (HK) was established earlier this year to acquire Mim, and the main shareholders and management are “active in apparel and textile manufacturing and trading, along with [...]
Dollar slides against euro as US job growth plummets to 142,000 September 5, 2014 US job growth came in way below expectations, with just 142,000 jobs added to the economy in August, compared with forecasts of about 230,000. It's the first time the US economy has failed to add over 200,000 jobs in seven months. Job growth dropped by 79,000 between June and July, from 288,000 to 209,000, but [...]
Twitpic shutdown: The companies that could be vulnerable to Twitter’s trademark clampdown September 5, 2014 Is Twitter getting twitchy? Picture sharing site Twitpic has revealed it is shutting down to avoid being embroiled in a costly trademark dispute with the social media giant – and it's not the first one to have done so. According to Twitpic founder Noah Everett, the Silicon Valley corporation contacted Twitpic's legal team “demanding we [...]
Tesco’s Dave Lewis in video interview addresses management shake up speculation September 5, 2014 Seven days into his tenure at Tesco, “Drastic Dave” Lewis has revealed how his “rollercoaster” first week in the new job went in a video posted on the supermarket’s YouTube channel. The former Unilever executive who replaced Philip Clarke said he won't shy away from making a call on management changes but would not make [...]
Rate of inflation is not as bad as you think but survey shows consumers are feeling the pinch September 5, 2014 The Bank of England has released the results of its latest survey into what consumers believe the rate of inflation will be over the next 12 months. The figure was up 0.2 percentage points to 2.8 per cent, while respondents believed the current rate to be around 3.4 per cent. Were the true figure to be hovering [...]