London office market heats up in July August 19, 2014 OFFICE space in central London fell by 21 per cent year-on-year in July as improved business confidence and rising employment prompted more firms to move. Data out yesterday by DTZ showed firms had taken up 8m sq ft in the year to date, up 17 per cent on the same period last year.
The game that matters… BT Sport reaches for the Sky – Brand Index August 19, 2014 Following on from my column last week covering the home broadband market, I analyse another area in which BT has expanded in to – live broadcasts of Premier League matches. Clubs are making the most of the massive money they receive from TV in order to bolster their squads. The two main domestic football broadcasters, [...]
London house prices ready to break through £500,000 mark August 19, 2014 House price growth dipped slightly in June, while the average property in the capital climbed to just shy of £500,000, according to figures released yesterday. Prices across the UK as a whole still rose in the year to June, up by 10.2 per cent, but the figure was a slight drop from May’s 10.7 per [...]
Two-thirds of employers report hiring an under-25 in last year August 19, 2014 Two-thirds of employers have hired someone under 25 during the last year, assisting the recent decline in youth unemployment, according to research released this morning. According to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), 64 per cent of firms employed a young person in the past 12 months. “It’s the best time in six years to [...]
Fitch: Foreign watchdogs may harm creditors August 19, 2014 GLOBAL banks’ failures may be more chaotic than expected under new rules designed to make the process of winding them down easier, ratings agency Fitch warned yesterday. Governments have tried to work together on plans to resolve broken banks across borders, but Fitch fears they have created a lop-sided system which means creditors in different [...]
Greggs scum hack prompts Twitter team to “bribe” Google with doughnuts August 19, 2014 Greggs bakery’s cheeks were left burning as hot as the middle of its sausage rolls yesterday, when someone who Googled the firm found that its logo had been hacked to read “providing shit to scum for 70 years”. Naturally, the news went viral and Greggs was trending on Twitter. “We are aware of the [...]
City manager-turned-author Mark Speed trolls Peter Capaldi at Dr Who premiere August 19, 2014 Dr Who is back on our screens this weekend, but one City worker has more interest than most. By day, Mark Speed works as a manager with financial forecasting company Evaluate, by night he writes novels, most recently about Dr Who. When Peter Capaldi appeared at the premiere of series eight of the heritage [...]
Game of Thrones’ Arya Stark to voice art beyond (London) Wall for Talking Statues August 19, 2014 Any Game of Thrones fans in the City should make a pilgrimage to The Broad Family statue in Broadgate, where they’ll be able to hear the youthful tones of Arya Stark (ie. actress Maisie Williams) tell the story of the artwork, from this week. It’s all part of Talking Statues, a project which will [...]
To Fry. To Serve: British Airways adds fish and chips to menus August 19, 2014 It’s about time. British Airways, the epitome of all things British, will finally start serving of one of our other stalwarts, fish and chips, on board. Previously, it seems fish and chips were just too hard to replicate during a flight but thanks to some kind of gastronomical witchcraft from DHL Supply Chain, the airline [...]
Google shares up 1,000 per cent a decade after IPO August 19, 2014 A decade ago yesterday, just three years after the dot-com crash, a Silicon Valley search startup called Google debuted on the Nasdaq for $85 a share. Shares, priced at the low end of Google’s $85 to $95 range, jumped 18 per cent during the first day of trading to $100.34, valuing the company at over [...]