Logica employee pleads guilty to insider dealing February 26, 2015 A former Logica employee has pleaded guilty to three charges of insider dealing around the company's takeover by CGI Group in 2012. Ryan Willmott, who was the group reporting and financial planning manager for the IT firm, set up a trading account in the name of a former girlfriend, without her knowledge, to [...]
And Baby makes three: Shard to get another building buddy to become “trilogy” by 2018 February 26, 2015 All the best things come in threes and skyscrapers are no different. A third building is being planned to join the Shard and Baby Shard to create a “trilogy” of towers designed by award-winning architect Renzo Piano. Sellar Property Group, which is responsible for the two existing buildilngs, is in talks with contractors over [...]
Tesco is losing directors Jacqueline Tammenoms Bakker and Olivia Garfield – meaning it has just one female board member February 26, 2015 Two of Tesco's three female board members are leaving the troubled supermarket this week. Jacqueline Tammenoms Bakker, who has been a director for six years, will retire at the end of Tesco's financial year, which is on Saturday. Olivia Garfield is stepping down at the same time, after nearly two years at the grocer [...]
Author, librarian and academic top the list of most desirable jobs in Britain February 26, 2015 Earlier this week we wrote about the best jobs in the UK based on earning potential, career opportunity and the number of job openings. And while that is all good and well in the real world, none of us dreamt of being a marketing manager when were child. In fact, when it comes to most desirable [...]
Google is poised to unveil a new look California HQ – and it has Heatherwick Studios and Bjarke Ingels on the case February 25, 2015 Google is expected to reveal its plans for new headquarters in California this week, and the company behind the iconic cauldron at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games is behind it. London-based Heatherwick Studio and award-winning Danish architect Bjarke Ingels are thought to have put together "a series of canopylike buildings" for the [...]
These amazing Space Race pictures are going up for auction by Nasa tomorrow in London February 25, 2015 Nasa is putting hundreds of rare or never-before-seen images from the golden era of the Space Race up for auction. More than 650 vintage images from Nasa's archives “of the first voyages beyond our home planet” are going under the hammer at Bloomsbury Auctions in London tomorrow (February 26). Entitled “From the Earth to [...]
Pi Day 2015 is coming, and this year it’s a once-in-a-century moment to celebrate 3/14/15 February 25, 2015 If you love maths, prepare to π your pants with excitement. In just over two weeks, there will be a once-in-a-century opportunity for maths lovers to geek-out on an ultra-special Pi Day. Pi Day falls on March 14 every year and is so called because when written numerically it follows the first three digits [...]
Weir Group share price plummets as oil and gas firm warns on year ahead February 25, 2015 Weir Group 's share price plummeted by 10 per cent this morning after the oil and gas company warned of a “significant reduction” in revenues for the year ahead. Though its results for the year to January 2 were just below expectations, investors were left more unsettled by the forecast of bid drop in demand [...]
Commuters left fuming (and damp) by two hundred metre queues just to enter Brixton Tube station February 25, 2015 Angry commuters are faced with two hundred metre queues to get into Brixton Tube station because of engineering work being done to the escalators. The queues, which witnesses claim stretched back as far as the Ritzy Cinema a couple of hundred metres from the station, have become a semi-regular feature along Brixton Road and [...]
Carillion preferred bidder on £380m Dubai contracts February 25, 2015 Carillion 's United Arab Emirates joint venture business Al Futtaim is poised to secure two new contracts worth £380m. Al Futtaim has been selected as the preferred bidder by Meraas for a £225m mixed-use development on the Dubai Creek waterfront. The project consists of food, beverage and other retail buildings, underground and multi-storey car [...]
