Apple Watch software update watchOS 2 delayed due to bug – iOS 9 release not affected September 16, 2015 Apple has postponed the release of new Apple Watch software watchOS 2, expected to be made available today, because of a bug. The software update would have been released to Apple Watch owners today. How long it will now be delayed is unclear, a company spokesperson said to the Financial Times: We have discovered a [...]
News Corp buys London adtech company Unruly Media for up to £114m September 16, 2015 News Corp has bought the video advertising technology company Unruly Media for up to £114m to improve its digital video offering for advertisers. Unruly, one of the most successful startups to emerge from London's Silicon Roundabout, will operate as a separate unit in News Corp's business, under newly returned UK chief Rebekah Brooks. “We have always [...]
General Election 2015 campaign costs explained: Where do smaller political parties spend their money? September 16, 2015 While campaign spending for a number of parties including the Conservatives and Labour reaches the 10s of millions of pounds in the build-up to the General Election, a number of parties spend significantly less. Data released by the Electoral Commission, the independent party funding watchdog, today gave details to campaign expenditure of all political parties [...]
EU migrant crisis: Syrian refugees in new scheme “to arrive in UK soon”, says home secretary Theresa May September 16, 2015 The first of the Syrian refugees the UK has pledged to accept will arrive in Britain in the “coming days”, home secretary Theresa May has said. This comes after Prime Minister David Cameron announced the UK would take 20,000 Syrian refugees in the next five years. Read more: Germany reinstates border controls and exits Schengen [...]
Cheesegrater wins City of London building of year award September 16, 2015 The Leadenhall Building, also known as “the Cheesegrater” has won the first ever City of London building of the year award. The commercial skyscraper, which was designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners, was chosen as the winner by a jury at the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects (WCCA). Read more: Walkie Talkie awarded [...]
Prime Minister’s Questions is a British institution that deserves defending September 16, 2015 Nothing makes the House of Commons more interesting than the mastery of political debate manifested so finely in Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs). Without it, parliamentary politics would increasingly lose its appeal and uniqueness. In the era of soundbites and spin, PMQs allows our leaders to challenge each other face-to-face, unaided and under the watchful eye [...]
The entrepreneur space race: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos takes on Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt in the fight for space exploration September 16, 2015 A new kind of space race has taken off, and this time it involves entrepreneurs eager to dominate commercial spaceflight. Yesterday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, a key player in the field, announced his latest endeavour – his startup Blue Origin is investing more than $200m (£129m) in building rocket manufacturing facilities in Florida and [...]
Reinventing the concept of retirement key to solving aging workforce dilemma September 16, 2015 We are in the middle of a fundamental demographic shift that has significant implications for businesses across the UK. By 2022 there will be 700,000 fewer people aged between 16 and 49, yet 3.7m more people aged between 50 and State Pension Age. Meanwhile, the employment rate starts to fall dramatically as people reach their [...]
The rise of the sleeping giant: Why the next wave of tech innovation will come from corporates September 16, 2015 A unique new inflight entertainment system that allows you to start watching movies on your iPad before the flight. A connected car that knows what you are going to do during the day. Selling car insurance by the mile instead of by the year. What these innovations have in common is that none of them [...]
Men’s health: Over half of men have hidden a medical condition from their family September 16, 2015 Who doesn’t want to be the strong and silent type? It seems a lot of British men are taking this to extremes, however, as more than half admit to keeping a medical condition secret – even from their closest loved ones. It’s not news that men are far less likely than women to visit a [...]