Live 3D will bring the Games to you April 17, 2012 London 2012 will be the first-ever Olympic Games broadcast live in 3D, so even if you don’t have a ticket, the Games can still seem closer than ever. The BBC is promising to screen the opening and closing ceremonies and the men’s 100m final, but if you are a Sky+ HD subscriber, you could watch [...]
Do not hang up, your call is very important to us April 15, 2012 GETTING to the airport only to find that your flight is cancelled is everyone’s worst nightmare. But when we become really hopping mad is trying to get through to the airline’s call centre for a refund. It shouldn’t come as a surprise then that a new league table of the longest call centre queues names [...]
CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 15, 2012 Irwin Mitchell The UK solicitor firm has appointed Denny Payton as partner in its motor team. Payton has been a solicitor for over nineteen years and has extensive experience working for major insurers, corporate fleets and brokers. Her focus is on delivering outsourcing services to international clients. DLA Piper Prakash Paran has joined the law [...]
A seemingly uninspiring outfit that fashioned over $500m April 15, 2012 I THINK I was having a coffee with friends when one of them, Natalie Massenet, casually asked me to back her new idea, Net-A-Porter.com, a haute couture website with access to the top labels. It was early 2000 and the tech-boom was raging. Valuations were sky-high and every man, woman and dog had a “brilliant” [...]
BEST of the BROKERS April 11, 2012 BT GROUP JP Morgan Cazenove has downgraded the telecoms group from “overweight” to “neutral” following a strong share price performance that has seen it rise by 20 per cent over six months, compared to a drop of five per cent across the European telecoms sector. The broker sees revenue risk in both the full year [...]
The economics of the airline industry are sheer hell April 10, 2012 AVIATION has changed massively since the era of Pan Am, a byword for style and sophistication in its 1960s heyday. The once besuited passengers have been replaced by an understandably angry mob, fighting to fit their suitcases into fluorescent-coloured over-head cabins. It is out with the caviar and freshly cooked roast beef and in with [...]
Gunners to put final nail in City’s title bid April 4, 2012 ARSENAL vs MANCHESTER CITY Sunday – 4.00pm Sky Sports 1 ROBERTO Mancini could be forgiven for playing Oasis’s ‘Where Did It All Go Wrong?’ on repeat on his iPod. Just over a month ago Manchester City were still five points clear of local rivals Manchester United, but now, with only seven games to go, they [...]
McIlroy is ready to banish memories of Augusta nightmare April 4, 2012 U.S. MASTERS From today, 3.45pm – Sky Sports 1, from 7pm TALK of the 76th US Masters being the best ever before a ball has even been struck is a tad optimistic but the ingredients are nevertheless all there for a classic tournament. All the big names seem to have peaked at precisely the right [...]
Sun setting on Murdoch’s time at family firm April 4, 2012 JAMES Murdoch’s departure from the top job at BSkyB will have little effect on the broadcaster’s business, analysts said yesterday. Jeremy Darroch, the chief executive, and Nicholas Ferguson, who has stepped up to head the board, will provide continuity so the strategy is unlikely to change. Murdoch will remain on the board, representing News Corporation’s [...]
PROFILE: NICHOLAS FERGUSON MOVES TO THE HOT SEAT April 4, 2012 AS an art-loving City veteran who has held a series of senior positions in private equity, Nicholas Ferguson’s pedigree could not be more different to that of James Murdoch, the transatlantic former whiz kid. Ferguson (right) is, however, trusted by the Murdoch family and that partly explains why he has been elevated at Sky. He [...]