Prosus and Takeaway.com trade blows in battle for Just Eat November 20, 2019 The two companies competing to take over food delivery firm Just Eat were locked in a war of words today as they vied to win the favour of shareholders. Prosus said the bid made by rival Takeaway.com represented “significant risks” and underestimated how competitive the British market was. Read more: Takeaway.com boss has no plans [...]
Death Stranding review: Hideo Kojima’s game about delivering parcels hits dizzying highs and terrible lows November 20, 2019 There’s an entire genre of games disparagingly referred to as “walking simulators”. In most of them, walking is simulated in only the most rudimentary of ways – you tend to glide about the place, looking at sunsets and picking up fruit. Japanese auteur Hideo Kojima has created a true walking simulator, a game in which [...]
Elon Musk to face defamation trial over ‘pedo guy’ comments November 20, 2019 Tech billionaire Elon Musk will appear in court to face a defamation lawsuit after he referred to a British diver as “pedo guy” on Twitter. A Los Angeles judge today denied Musk’s request to throw out the case and ordered the trial to begin on 3 December. Read more: Brexit has cost Britain a Tesla [...]
The scary movie cliches your business might be committing November 20, 2019 The choices that characters make in scary movies can often seem baffling. Why do they never turn the lights on when entering the house at night alone? How come they always run upstairs and never outside when being chased? These may be fictional scenarios we’ve seen on the screen many times, but real-world businesses are [...]
UBS warns of more Sage downgrades as cloud spend hurts annual profit November 20, 2019 More downgrades will weigh on Sage’s share price, investors were warned today, as the British software company revealed that its transition to cloud has knocked its annual profit. Read more: Meet the UK’s 70 fastest growing tech startups The figures Sage’s share price fell 4.6 per cent to 708p in early trading as it admitted [...]
Google admits major underreporting of General Election ad spend November 20, 2019 Google has admitted to severely underreporting spending on UK political advertising ahead of the upcoming General Election, with errors affecting both the Conservative and Labour parties. Google’s weekly transparency reports on advertising spending by political parties and other organisations contain major discrepancies because heavy spending on search terms is not always recorded, The Guardian reported. [...]
Dominic Raab: ‘No-one gives a toss’ about Tory party’s factcheckUK Twitter stunt November 20, 2019 Dominic Raab has said that “no-one gives a toss” that the Conservative Party has been accused of misleading the public by renaming their Twitter account ‘factcheckUK’ during last night’s leaders debate. The Conservatives have faced criticism from fact checkers and Twitter after changing the name of the @CCHQPress account during the ITV debate between Boris [...]
Meet the UK’s 70 fastest-growing tech firms November 20, 2019 70 of the most promising high-growth tech firms in the UK have been named as the country’s top scaleup companies by tech group Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK). Media intelligence company Signal AI, car insurance specialist Cuvva, and online plant store Patch are among the firms that have been selected for SC2UK’s 2019 [...]
Brexit campaigner Arron Banks has Twitter account hacked November 19, 2019 Self-described “bad boy of Brexit” Arron Banks has had his Twitter account hacked and his personal messages shared online. Banks – who co-founded Leave.Eu – also accused Twitter of not taking action or removing the “illegal data downloads” from the platform. Read more: Arron Banks apologises for Leave.Eu tweet about Angela Merkel that ‘went too [...]
Audio firm Focusrite records strong year of growth but warns on outlook November 19, 2019 Shares in audio equipment firm Focusrite dropped more than seven per cent today as it warned of a more subdued first quarter of trading following a bumper year of growth. The Aim-listed company posted revenue of £84.7m for the 12 months to the end of August, up almost 13 per cent on last year, while [...]