Last week in the City March 23, 2018 This week, China warned the US that it is not afraid of engaging in a trade war, the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates again, and Facebook shares plummeted after allegations that millions of users' profile data had been harvested. The FTSE 100 was down 3.5% over the course of the week by mid-session on Friday. [...]
Jaguar Land Rover reveals electric car software tie-up with Blackberry March 22, 2018 Blackberry is to provide the software for Jaguar Land Rover's next-generation electric vehicles, it was announced this morning. BlackBerry will provide its infotainment and security software to JLR, which is owned by India conglomerate Tata. The Canadian firm has agreed similar agreements with Qualcomm, Baidu and Aptiv. With a legacy as a hardware maker, Blackberry [...]
New Crossrail 2 delays could jeopardise plans for the £31bn project’s route February 14, 2018 A £31bn plan to build a second Crossrail risks going off track as fresh delays threaten to hinder the intended route for the new railway, with concern over land and property costs around parts of it which aren't safeguarded. With funding and a hybrid bill which would give the green light to a revised Crossrail [...]
New Crossrail 2 delays could jeopardise the planned route for the £31bn project as key milestones are pushed back February 14, 2018 A £31bn plan to build a second Crossrail risks going off track as fresh delays threaten to hinder the intended route for the new railway, with concern over land and property costs around parts of it which aren’t safeguarded. With funding and a hybrid bill which would give the green light to a revised Crossrail [...]
Crossrail 2 progress stalls as independent funding review won’t wrap up until the autumn February 1, 2018 Progress on the £31bn Crossrail 2 project has stuttered, after Transport for London (TfL) said today an independent financing review sought by the government will not be completed until the autumn. It means hopes for a public consultation getting underway early this year have been dashed. TfL’s director of City Planning, Alex Williams told the [...]
London mayor Sadiq Khan’s concerns over fresh Crossrail 2 delays revealed in letter to chancellor Philip Hammond January 18, 2018 London mayor Sadiq Khan’s concerns over fresh delays to the £31bn Crossrail 2 project have been revealed in a letter sent to chancellor Philip Hammond. The letter, published in a Freedom of Information response by City Hall, came ahead of November’s Autumn Budget, with Khan saying the rail route needed “an urgent ministerial decision” to [...]
Range Rover SUV hybrid electric review: This PHEV could get you through your commute petrol free January 9, 2018 A decade ago, you couldn’t park up an SUV in London without risking it being covered by faux parking tickets castigating you as a gas-guzzling planet-destroyer. So intense was the kickback from green groups, Land Rover even invested in an official carbon off-setting scheme. All new cars carried big stickers on their windscreen proclaiming their [...]
What the advertising industry should watch out for in 2018 January 3, 2018 We ask advertising bosses what’s in store for the year ahead. Alex Hesz, chief strategy officer, Adam&eveDDB In the era of fake news, advertising has emerged as an unlikely standard-bearer for scrutiny. We have long embraced the necessity of third-party regulation to verify what is fact and what is fantasy. Our job is to tell [...]
Crossrail 2 faces timing crunch as government plans independent funding and financing review December 20, 2017 The planned timeline for Crossrail 2 could be pushed off track by a fresh funding hurdle as the Department for Transport (DfT) plans an independent financing review for the £31bn project. London mayor Sadiq Khan met transport secretary Chris Grayling this month for further talks regarding the railway which would serve stations throughout the south [...]
HondaJet review: For the businessman with not a minute to spare, the HondaJet is an exciting entry into the corporate jet market November 13, 2017 Soichiro Honda founded the company with motorcycles but always dreamt of making an aircraft. Others within his firm shared this and, through the years, it has spent billions pursuing it. The result was launched in 2016: the HondaJet. Take that, Mercedes-Benz and BMW: you may have a plethora of luxury cars, but none of you [...]