Apple iOS9 release: How businesses can make the most of the latest iPhone software from Siri and ad-blocking to Spotlight and split screens September 11, 2015 Are you ready for iOS9? Apple is making some major changes to its flagship operating system over the next few weeks, but what do these updates mean for businesses? A nail in the coffin for search and display? The new operating system iOS 9 will include a significantly enhanced Spotlight search functionality, the [...]
Number of Britons expecting Bank of England to raise interest rates climbs to four-year high September 11, 2015 More Britons are expecting interest rates to rise soon than anytime since 2011. Yesterday’s interest rate news was its usual less-than-exciting event, as the Bank of England held interest rates steady at 0.5 per cent for the 77th consecutive month. But change is closing in, as the Bank of England’s Quarterly Survey shows that the [...]
Sadiq Khan beats favourite Tessa Jowell to become Labour’s 2016 London mayoral nomination indicating potential landslide victory for Jeremy Corbyn in Labour’s leadership election September 11, 2015 Tooting MP Sadiq Khan has won the Labour mayoral candidate race, beating other contenders including favourite Tessa Jowell. Khan, who served in the shadow cabinet under Ed Miliband, beat Jowell in the fifth round with 58.9 per cent of votes against Jowell's 41.1 per cent. A total of 87,954 people voted. David Lammy and Dianne [...]
The UK’s calorie consumption keeps falling – but we’re getting fatter: Obesity crusaders are only focusing on calories-in rather than calories-out September 11, 2015 Last month, Royal Holloway University released a new study which received zero media attention. Looking at trends in Britain in the last 30 years, it found ‘a sharp reduction in the strenuousness of daily life’ while noting that ‘calorie intake has fallen by around 20 per cent.’ This occurred at a time when obesity rates [...]
Tessa Jowell to become next Mayor of London, according to analysis of polls September 11, 2015 Dame Tessa Jowell is the only Labour candidate that can overcome Conservative Zac Goldsmith, an analysis of polls showed today. A number of YouGov surveys on the mayoral contest has put Labour four points ahead of the Conservatives overall, on 42 per cent against 38 per cent. And, in total, 17 per cent of respondents believed [...]
Oil price could drop to $20 a barrel, Goldman Sachs warns September 11, 2015 Oil prices could fall as low as $20 a barrel as weak fundamentals and wider concerns about the global economy push prices down even further, Goldman Sachs has warned. In a note sent out this morning, the analysts highlighted that the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil had fallen to its previously-forecast [...]
Vodafone and BT Group share prices tumble as European Commission blocks merger between TeliaSonera and Telenor September 11, 2015 British telecommunications dragged the FTSE 100 index lower on Friday, following the news of a blocked merger. Vodafone and BT Group's share prices both tumbled around 1.6 per cent as the European Union’s antitrust authority moved to block a deal between Scandinavian telecoms companies TeliaSonera and Telenor. The merger would have created Denmark’s biggest provider, [...]
From the Apple iPhone 6s launch and Labour’s mayoral race to the refugee crisis and Sports Direct: Here’s what got us talking this week September 11, 2015 There was a record breaker. There was some space whisky. And somewhere in the heart of the City, there was a good old-fashioned knees up. Here's what got us talking this week 1) The bus driver's son won Sadiq Khan beat favourite Tessa Jowell to become the Labour candidate for London Mayor in 2016, [...]
Eddie Hearn interview: Matchroom boss says Anthony Joshua will be heavyweight champion of the world…and boxing can be the second biggest sport in the country September 11, 2015 A little over a year after staging the biggest fight in British boxing history between Carl Froch and George Groves, Eddie Hearn has not downsized the scale of his ambition. “In six years I think we can make this the number two sport in the country,” the boxing promoter told City A.M. “We’ve [...]
Robert De Niro transforms into Bernie Madoff in new HBO show Wizard of Lies – first picture revealed September 11, 2015 The first picture of Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer as Bernie and Ruth Madoff has surfaced online. The two Hollywood heavyweights are starring in the HBO film Wizard of Lies, a dramatisation of how convicted fraudster Bernie Madoff was responsible for building one of the most infamous Ponzi schemes in history. Madoff, who conned investors [...]