Howard Webb: Technology undoubtedly helps referees, but video replays won’t be a panacea for football October 25, 2016 A whistle, a red and yellow card and the strength of your personality – those were the tools of the trade when I began a 25-year refereeing career in 1989. In the late 90s we were given these chunky radios that sat in the middle of our backs with a big earpiece looped over your [...]
Twitter is lining up hundreds of job cuts in an attempt to streamline operations October 25, 2016 Twitter is preparing to unveil hundreds of jobs cuts prior to its third quarter earnings announcement on Thursday. Up to 300 positions, or eight per cent of the work force, could be culled as the social media giant tries to stem losses that are currently running at $400m (£329m) per year. Read more: Salesforce shares jump [...]
Virtual reality startup in talks for fresh funds October 24, 2016 A London-based virtual reality startup is in talks for fresh funding that could value it at over £400m. Improbable – which last year picked up $20m (£13.4m) from Silicon Valley investor Andreessen Horowitz – is locked in talks with potential backers on both sides of the Atlantic, according to Sky News. Its last funding round reportedly [...]
What to expect from Apple’s fourth quarter earnings October 24, 2016 Apple will announce its earnings for the fourth quarter tomorrow, ahead of a new MacBook launch later in the week. Connor Campbell, financial analyst at SpreadEx, said the earnings report "is likely to reflect the first annual iPhone sales decline in the company's history". Read more: Shares in this Apple supplier just fell off a [...]
Here are some of the NHS treatments you could get prescribed that don’t help October 24, 2016 Doctors have drawn up a list of treatments they say bring little or no benefit to the patient and should no longer be used. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges – which represents all 21 medical royal colleges in the UK – says doctors are giving patients too many tests and drugs that they don’t need. [...]
Sterling malaise leads to Microsoft increasing enterprise prices October 24, 2016 The pound’s plunge means that software giant Microsoft will increase prices of enterprise software and cloud services from next year. Although consumers pricing will not be adjusted by Microsoft, the company revealed on one its own blog posts that from 1 January it will raise prices by 13 per cent to enterprises. Read more: Microsoft [...]
The broken windows of programmatic advertising October 24, 2016 If programmatic advertising were a place, it would be a divided town. Alongside the glitz of the industry is a dark web of villainy, where gangs roam through the buy and sell side, smuggling harmful software into ads and damaging perceptions of digital advertising. But it’s not a town, and there’s no police to shut the [...]
CommuterClub’s co-founders talk desk dividers and the future of mobility October 24, 2016 We sat opposite each other and, although there was a barrier between us (a physical desk divider) we’d work late into the night and bounce ideas around,” says Petko Plachkov, co-founder of travel payment plan firm CommuterClub. He’s describing working at fintech legend Clive Cowdery’s firm, the Resolution Group, with his co-founder, Imran Gulamhuseinwala. “I joined [...]
Meet Ernest: The free financial coach that sits in your Facebook October 24, 2016 When I was at BlackRock, I spent a lot of time on tech that was designed to improve return on investment for people who already had a lot of money,” says Niall Bellabarba, co-founder of Ernest, the intelligent finance coach. “So my starting point was that the man on the street doesn’t have access to [...]
Adobe plans growth despite UK tech slump October 23, 2016 US software giant Adobe is to expand its London office, despite reporting a drop in UK tech sales. Adobe is set to double the size of its current London headquarters, building a new sales office to cover Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The maker of Photoshop recently reported demand for electronics had plummeted [...]