The Whopper of all rows: Burger King slammed by customers after Tim Horton deal August 26, 2014 Burger King was forced to issue a statement claiming its merger with doughnut business Tim Horton was “not tax-driven” after receiving a barrage of criticism on social media today. The burger giant today struck a deal to create the world's third largest fast food restaurant with a market capitalisation of $20bn (£12bn), as part [...]
This is still a man’s world when it comes to entrepreneurship August 26, 2014 A study by the US Senate committee has exposed a large gender imbalance in entrepreneurship, with women lagging behind men in many of the areas crucial for business success. Called “21st century barriers to women's entrepreneurship”, it reveals that there were eight million women-owned firms in the US in 2007, but these accounted for [...]
Boris Johnson’s parliamentary voting record: Yes to hunting, no to the EU August 26, 2014 Boris Johnson has been out of parliament for six years. As mayor he has been pro-business and is quoted as saying: "I'm a one-nation Tory. There is a duty on the part of the rich to the poor and to the needy, but you are not going to help people express that duty and satisfy [...]
The 12 London streets where house prices are £10m plus August 26, 2014 Figures by Zoopla published on Tuesday show almost 500,000 homeowners in the UK are now property millionaires. According to the figures, the number of streets in Britain where houses are worth over £1m has risen by almost a third since August last year. Not surprisingly, though, London has the most expensive streets – including Kensington Palace [...]
Ecigarettes should be banned indoors and heavily regulated, says WHO August 26, 2014 In a major intervention into the heated debate surrounding ecigarettes the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for devices to be banned indoors and prohibited for minors. The UN agency said advocates of ecigs should not claim they help people quit smoking until there is more evidence proving their success. The WHO claimed that vaping [...]
Ball boys and Marcos Giron test Ralph Lauren’s Polo tech shirt to monitor heart rate and biometrics at US Open August 26, 2014 There’s a lot of talk about wearables – clothes combining smart technology- but much of it is still in the hypothetical or early beta stages. Ralph Lauren could be the first big fashion brand out of the stalls when it comes to getting wearable tech on to people’s backs. The designer known for preppy polos [...]
What a whopper: Burger King completes £6.8bn deal with Tim Hortons August 26, 2014 Burger King has agreed to create the world's third-largest fast food restaurant by buying Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons. Under the deal, Tim Hortons shareholders will receive C$65.50 in cash and 0.8025 shares of the merged company for each share they own. That values the Canadian company at about C$12.5bn (£6.8bn). Shares closed [...]
London Bridge station closure: Here’s how commuters are coping August 26, 2014 Today is the first day commuters faced the partial shutdown of London Bridge station which means quite a bit of disruption for anyone travelling through or near the area. Here's how day one went. It was a little bit of a surprise for some people returning to work after the long weekend. https://twitter.com/Chalk_Cheese/status/504168372238839809 https://twitter.com/ShaunBiggs1/status/504184653763579904 There [...]
Boris Johnson to stand for Uxbridge and South Ruislip August 26, 2014 London mayor Boris Johnson has applied to stand as the Conservative candidate for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in next year's general election. Johnson, who has been the mayor since he unseated Ken Livingstone in 2008, submitted his name to the Conservative Campaign Headquarters this morning, two days before the deadline. If his bid [...]
What is the Higgs Boson? China’s collider to study particle in unprecedented detail August 26, 2014 Large Hadron Collider, eat your heart out. China is planning to build a bigger, better particle collider that will be able to study the elusive Higgs Boson particle in unprecedented detail. With a circumference of 52km, the “Higgs Factory” would be almost twice the size of Europe's equivalent, and significantly more powerful. The Chinese [...]