Get yourself connected January 22, 2014 We take a look at the gadgets giving a whole new meaning to “home computer” LG Smart TV, from £549 The LG SmartTV can live-stream, browse the web, Skype, and access GameWorld and the Android App Store. Watch two football matches side-by-side in real time on the split screen, gasp at special effects in 3D, [...]
Any Other Business – 23/01 January 22, 2014 IT’S OFFICIAL, the person behind @GSElevator, one of the greatest spies to come our way since 007, has got themselves a book deal. The anonymous tweeter, who claims to give the world snippets of conversations from the Goldman Sachs elevator, has wrangled a deal with publisher Simon & Schuster. The title currently being bandied about is: [...]
The IPO prospectus that gives you a new definition of clubbing January 22, 2014 Magnum, a chain of three Hong Kong nightclubs, is launching an initial public offering tomorrow. Obviously, briefing prospective investors beforehand is, as with any business, paramount, and Magnum has left no stone unturned in its prospectus. The document includes a definition of nightclubs, highlights the popularity of the Jagerbomb and describes how, on occasion, [...]
Investors have a serious case of Icahn fatigue January 22, 2014 Activist investor Carl Icahn has yet again had a go at pumping up the value of Apple stock. Icahn has become fond of Twitter as a platform, but 66 messages in and the attention of market watchers has started to wear thin. Three consecutive updates failed to make much of a dent in the value [...]
BT breaks record for fastest ever broadband January 22, 2014 Alcatel-Lucent and BT have achieved the fastest ever broadband speeds in real world conditions. The speeds of 1.4 terabits (Tbps) per second were recorded in a field test conducted on a 255 mile fibre cable between the BT tower and Ipswich. The trial recorded spectral efficiency of 5.7 bits per second per Hertz. This is [...]
London to see bigger property deals this year after City’s record quarter January 22, 2014 Not long ago there used to be a thing as too large a scheme in London, even for overseas investors and risk-takers in the property sector. But size, as demonstrated by Kuwaiti firm St Martins’s £1.7bn acquisition of More London last month, is no longer a hurdle. And this will become an even more apparent [...]
The book Goldman Sachs doesn’t want you to see January 22, 2014 It’s official, the person behind @GSElevator, one of the greatest spies to come our way since 007, has got themselves a book deal. The anonymous tweeter, who claims to give the world snippets of conversations from the Goldman Sachs elevator, has wrangled a deal with publisher Simon & Schuster. Here are [...]
Bitcoin bears outnumber bugs four to one January 22, 2014 Close to half of international investors are bearish on Bitcoin, according to a Bloomberg Global Poll. 47 per cent of those polled said they would sell the digital currency, with only 11 per cent saying they would buy it. Seven per cent said they would hold the cryptocurrency and 35 per cent said they did [...]
Here’s how Google’s leading a revolution in green technology January 22, 2014 Google today sealed its third green energy deal in the space of three months, agreeing to buy electricity generated by four Swedish wind farms for the next ten years. For companies offering vast online services like Google and Microsoft, the energy requirements of growing numbers of data centers are one of the largest ongoing costs [...]
Coal’s lost decade is coming to an end. Here’s why January 22, 2014 The dark days could be coming to an end for coal – or at least to some extent. Thermal coal (the kind used in power generation) has felt a decade of rising investment and a growing labour force hitting returns on production (in four key countries it declined at a rate of three per cent per [...]