Agenda-setting and amusing: Why Buzzfeed is a real innovator February 16, 2016 I don't even have to tell people anymore that Buzzfeed are no longer just about kittens. This is a company that has recently hired some of the brightest and best journalist talent in the UK, including hard-nosed investigative reporters, clever data visualisers and hot political correspondents. Buzzfeed in the UK is built on the hugely [...]
Fast Company’s most innovative companies 2016:OMG! Buzzfeed tops list ahead of Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Uber February 16, 2016 Move over Zuckerberg and step aside Bezos – there's a new innovator in town, and it might just surprise you to find out who. Beating both Facebook and Amazon, as well as Uber, Apple and Alphabet, it's media darling and animal listicle inventor Buzzfeed which has been named the most innovative company in the world. Putting a nail in [...]
EU referendum: Big rise in those who want to leave the European Union while Scots show more support for staying in than Britain as a whole, new poll finds February 16, 2016 This week Prime Minister David Cameron hopes to end months of negotiations in which he has had to sell his deal to his European counterparts. But he may find it harder to sell the deal to the UK, a recent poll has found. As the referendum nears a new poll by ComRes has found that just 49 per cent [...]
US growth and the risk of recession has replaced the China slowdown as biggest investor fear February 16, 2016 Fear over the US economy and risk of a recession has topped the deceleration of China’s economy as the biggest risk for investors, according to the latest Bank of America Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey. Global fund managers’ growth and profit expectations are both negative for the first time since July 2012. The survey also [...]
Gold price rally returns as it snaps two-day losing streak February 16, 2016 The gold price rally returned today, ending a two-day losing streak, as ongoing concerns over the global economy returned a sparkle to its safe-haven status. Spot gold rose 0.38 per cent to $1,213.95 an ounce in mid-afternoon trade. Earlier, it had fallen as low as $1,190.40, having shed 2.3 per cent yesterday, its biggest one-day loss [...]
Yahoo will live stream Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting February 16, 2016 Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway will for the first time ever live stream its annual shareholder meeting. The meeting, due to take place 30 April with around 40,000 shareholders in Omaha, will be broadcast as a live stream online on Yahoo. “Over the past 50 years, we’ve seen a tremendous increase in the interest around our [...]
Why Croydon Tech City’s model is now a “blueprint for the future” February 16, 2016 Last month, minister for the cabinet office Matthew Hancock visited Croydon Tech City and described it as a “blueprint for the future”. Three years ago, the idea of such a thing being said about a borough famous for the 2011 riots and its unflattering haircuts (“The Croydon facelift”), would have been unimaginable. Now, Croydon is London’s [...]
Raising a kid now costs the same as a house: Here’s five properties you could buy for the same price as having a child February 16, 2016 We all know raising a kid's expensive, but it's now more expensive than ever. More than a third of parents' income goes on kids each year, and the cost has gone up by £2,500, or one per cent, on the previous year. The total cost has risen an astonishing 65 per cent since 2003, according to [...]
Delays to EDF’s Hinkley Point C shows UK energy policy must move away from nuclear power February 16, 2016 Profound changes are happening in Somerset, where Britain's first nuclear power plant in 20 years is being built, and in UK energy policy. Going back to the Blair years, UK energy policy has been long-wedded to the idea that new nuclear will plug the electricity gap and save us from climate change. However, it looks economic reality [...]
Saudi-Russian pledge to freeze oil production may be smoke and mirrors February 16, 2016 Stop press!! Saudi Arabia and Russia have agreed to freeze oil output!! At first glance, the remarks at today's meeting in Doha were hugely significant, coming both from the notoriously stubborn leader of the Opec cartel and one of the largest non-Opec producers in the world. Opec members Qatar and Venezeula, who were also at [...]