Vice Media to launch new Viceland TV channel on Sky and Now TV in September March 9, 2016 Vice Media, the group behind the millennials' favourite website Vice News, will launch a 24-hour television channel called Viceland on Sky and Sky's online streaming service Now TV this September. The 24-hour channel will be programmed, developed and produced in-house by Vice's creative team and will be available for all Sky TV customers in their [...]
London Mayoral Election 2016: Sadiq Khan’s landlord database should already be available March 9, 2016 Labour's London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan's election manifesto includes a raft of measures which he claimed are aimed at directly improving the lot of London’s renters, saying that an "entire generation" of private tenants had been "failed by the Tories". It is unsurprising Mr Khan is looking to woo this sector of the electorate, which is huge and [...]
Sky just invested $45m in Netflix rival iflix in Asia March 9, 2016 Sky is flexing its tech investment muscles again, splashing millions for a stake in a movie and TV streaming service in south east Asia which rivals Netflix. The broadcaster has invested $45m (£31.6m) in iflix which boasts one million users in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines since launching under a year ago and has plans to expand [...]
Forgotten Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts: Now’s the time to clear your social media cobwebs March 9, 2016 Online social networks now connect 2bn people and millions of businesses across the world. Email, by comparison, cannot keep up. But while we tend to feel comfortable sending sensitive content via email, most social networks are designed to be broadcasting platforms for sharing as much information as you like with friends, acquaintances or just about anyone. [...]
Fixie derivative trading, anyone? Barclays takes after PwC and installs exercise bikes in its Canary Wharf offices to boost productivity March 9, 2016 Not content with a ruthlessly strict dress code after it banned flip-flops, Barclays bosses are having a go at changing their workers' lifestyles – by furnishing its Canary Wharf offices with exercise bikes. Barclays has been offering "High Octane Rides" to bankers since August, in an attempt to find new ways to boost productivity in the workplace. The idea is that [...]
PMQs today: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says government is cutting corporation tax while child poverty rates are going up March 9, 2016 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has accused Prime Minister David Cameron of putting the interests of corporations over those of poor children. In Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) today, Corbyn said that chancellor George Osborne "found another £6.6bn to lower corporation tax, despite our corporation tax being lower" than most other major economies. Corbyn went on to cite [...]
BruiseDog, more like: Scottish craft beer company BrewDog shows how not to conduct recruitment on BBC2 “Who’s the Boss” show March 9, 2016 Scottish craft beer company BrewDog gave a lesson in how not to conduct recruitment last night when its co-founder featured on the final episode of the BBC2 programme "Who's the Boss?", and Twitter made sure the company knew it wasn't impressed. On the show, the Aberdeenshire-based company hired an area manager for its London and South East bar [...]
Taxi protest is shutting down roads around Whitehall (again) as campaigners demonstrate against Uber and other PHVs March 9, 2016 Bad news if you're hoping to drive through parts of central London today. Taxi drivers holding a protest around Whitehall are causing major disruption to local roads – but this time the campaigners are actually on foot. Protesters boasted that roads around the seat of government – including Parliament Square, Westminster Bridge, Victoria Street, Charing [...]
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos wants to blast you into space as soon as 2018 as he reveals plans for his secretive space tourism company Blue Origin March 9, 2016 Amazon's Jeff Bezos has opened up about his ambitious plans to blast people into space on commercial flights above earth within the next two years. Blue Origin, the Amazon founder's commercial space flight company which is a rival to the likes of Elon Musk's Space X and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, will conduct its first test [...]