In Pictures: London’s best offices to work in April 29, 2014 If you could work in any office in London where would it be? Giving yourself vertigo half way up the Shard? Zipping down a slide at Moshi Monsters’ HQ in Shoreditch? Well, stop wondering because the good people at the British Council for Offices (BCO) has come up with the top six offices to [...]
Hipster croissant wins World’s Best Baked Dish April 28, 2014 When one considers where to get the world’s finest baked goods, especially the world’s best croissant – London’s hipster epicentre Shoreditch wouldn’t normally be on the top of the hit list. But grab your fixie and dig out those black rimmed glasses, things are about to change. Chowster announced the winners of the 2014 [...]
What’s it actually like to work at Facebook? April 24, 2014 Facebook’s bumper annual results last night, with a 72 per cent increase in revenue on last year’s first quarter, means that working at Facebook right now is probably pretty sweet. No doubt they’re throwing giant beach balls around, high fiving each other and necking ice-cold Buds from their beanbags. Consider us jealous. But [...]
London’s top six Airbnb rentals April 22, 2014 New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman really doesn’t like Airbnb. He’s meeting the holiday rental company in court today, as Schneiderman wages war on what he describes as “illegal sublets” which appear on the site. Airbnb has already removed thousands of New York-based lets in a bid to appease Schneiderman, who has issued a [...]
Larking about in New Covent Garden to promote Dot London April 16, 2014 A gaggle of business leaders including Deborah Meaden, Tech Hub’s Andrew Tibbitts and CEO of London & Partners Gordon Innes braved the chill at the New Covent Garden flower market this morning to bang the drum for Dot London. That's the new internet domain wiring its way to London businesses at the end of [...]
Odds are on for which tech giant will actually use drones first April 15, 2014 The race to use drones is the latest gold rush to consume our technology giants. One by one the main players are scooping up drone making firms, coming up with drone master plans and picking up the drone scent where others have left off. The latest player in the ring is “Jonny big bucks” [...]
What do Liberum Capital, George Best and the Highlands have in common? April 14, 2014 Liberum Capital has recently had quite the honour bestowed upon it. The stockbroker, based usually in the heart of the City at Ropemaker Place, is taking to the skies – kind of. Flybe has named one of its planes after it. It’s called The Spirit of Liberum. Troubled airline Flybe has just gone [...]
This literally cool map of London shows the hipster migration east April 8, 2014 Is doesn’t take a genius to work out that London’s trendies have moved to east London over the past ten years, gathering into a melting pot of fixies, skinny jeans and iPads in Hackney and the surrounding area – but this map, plus handy graph, does illustrate it beautifully. Savills has gathered data from [...]
Brits hate Easter but Lindt is top of the chocs April 7, 2014 Easter may be bouncing towards us faster than you can say “oh goodness I’ve eaten five packets of chocolate buttons,” but it seems most of us don’t give a toss. Some research from Webloyalty has detected vast disillusionment, 79 per cent of respondents to the survey said Easter was not important to them, 66 [...]
“Mr Gaucho” to set up new steak venture April 1, 2014 Martin Williams has been MD of Gaucho for nine years. His face was seen so regularly at the brand’s restaurant some dubbed him Mr Gaucho. But it seems he’ll have to relinquish his moniker because after almost a decade he’s moving on. Williams finishes up at Gaucho this month and is starting up his [...]