Five of the best GIF maker programmes April 9, 2014 GIFBOOM With a range of filters and social media sharing options, this GIF-making mobile app is the Instagram of motion photography. Upload photos from your camera roll or record yourself before adding text and filters. iOS/Android; free Cinemagram This app from developer Factyle is designed to seamlessly blend video and image content, plus it has [...]
Four business tips from Alex Ferguson April 9, 2014 Ruthlessness and a focus on young talent may pay off, but be careful not to linger after quitting WITH 38 trophies in 26 years at Manchester United, including 13 of the 21 Premier League titles he contested, Sir Alex Ferguson can stake a strong claim as the most successful sports manager in a generation. This [...]
Tech rout slams UK online giants April 8, 2014 BRITISH technology shares were pummeled for a second day yesterday as waves of uncertainty surrounding the sector continued, despite a recovery across similar stocks in the US. The FTSE 100 dropped for the second day in a row, falling over 32 points to 6,590.69, hampered by the poor performance of tech stocks. The top tech [...]
US banks forced to hold $68bn in extra capital April 8, 2014 THE BIGGEST banks in America are to be forced to hold billions of dollars of extra capital, after regulators introduced a tough new leverage ratio last night. The Federal Reserve has issued new rules which dictate the banks must lift the percentage of equity to total assets they hold to five per cent, higher than [...]
Insurers lash out at City watchdog’s blunder April 8, 2014 SLOPPY changes to insurance rules could undermine the government’s effort to boost savings, industry leaders warned yesterday, as the City watchdog revealed details of its probe into a bungled announcement of a market investigation. The Financial Conduct Authority has hired Simon Davis, partner at law firm Clifford Chance, to find out what went wrong in [...]
We are finally starting to get a more grown-up debate on the EU April 8, 2014 AT SOME point over the next few years, the UK will have to decide once and for all what it wants Its relationship with the European Union to be. This is a crucial debate, albeit one where intelligent and well-meaning people who broadly share the same outlook on many other issues will still find it [...]
What the other papers say this morning – 09 April 2014 April 8, 2014 FINANCIAL TIMES Heartbleed bug threatens web A flaw has been discovered in a encryption method used on about two-thirds of all websites, including Google, Amazon, Yahoo and Dropbox, potentially exposing web traffic, user data and stored content to cyber criminals. The heartbleed bug was found in the OpenSSL software by a team of security engineers [...]
UK to be fastest growing of all G7 economies April 8, 2014 THE GROWTH outlook for the UK economy this year is now the best of the G7 nations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) admitted yesterday, in a major reversal of its assessment last year. The IMF said yesterday it expects UK GDP to increase by 2.9 per cent in 2014, almost double its estimate in April [...]
Devastated Miller clinging on to cabinet role despite calls to quit April 8, 2014 THE PRESSURE continued to mount for culture secretary Maria Miller to resign last night, after fresh calls from senior political figures in Westminster. In a column in her local newspaper the Basingstoke Gazette this morning, Miller wrote that she is “devastated” and feels she has let her constituents down. “I have always sought to do the [...]
EU court ruling could end data capture in UK April 8, 2014 A CONTROVERSIAL EU diktat that required telecoms firms to capture and store customer data for up to two years has been ruled invalid. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) yesterday warned that the 2006 ruling represents a threat to privacy and raised serious concerns about the way data is stored and protected. The ruling, which [...]
