Spotted: Weather mocking RBS’s shocking results February 27, 2014 It's been a rough morning for RBS – its results (losses of £8.2bn), while not entirely surprising, have disappointed analysts and chief exec Ross McEwan has called them "sobering." But it seems even inanimate objects are hell bent on reiterating the bank's poor results. So cruel. The thermometer was spotted and tweeted [...]
Pictures: Ghostly photos mixing the City of old with new February 26, 2014 Check out these images from the Museum of London which mesh old photos of the City with shots from today. It's spooky, it's interesting, we like it. The images haven't just been created for a laugh. The images have been created to publicise an update for the Streetmuseum app which allows you to overlay the [...]
Video: Betfair founder says Bitcoin adoption is “inevitable” February 25, 2014 Ed Wray knows a fair bit about the internet. Having worked at JP Morgan for eight years he co-founded of Betfair in 1999, where he served as chairman until March 2012. He went on to become a non-executive director at crowdfunding site Funding Circle and to invest in taxi app Kabee. We caught [...]
5 British people who have been fired and still succeeded February 24, 2014 Our commiserations go out to Piers Morgan as we hear the British presenter, and his controversial views on gun-control, have been axed from CNN’s prime time slot following a slide in viewing figures. It may be a tad embarrassing but getting the old heave ho from a role certainly doesn’t spell disaster for anyone. [...]
10 things you need to know about Whatsapp’s founders February 20, 2014 So, Facebook has opened the giant gates to its social coffers again – this time forking out $19bn for Whatsapp – making it its most expensive shopping trip ever. It makes Facebook’s offer of $3bn for Snapchat in November last year look like small change. Zuckerberg and his desire to control all inter-friend communication [...]
Video: We check out the Breitling flight simulator in Canary Wharf February 19, 2014 Ever flown a fighter jet? No? Us neither, but we've had a go on a fighter jet flight simulator as of today. Uber swanky watch brand Breitling set up the simulator in Canada Square shopping centre, Canary Wharf in a bid to encourage bankers and other Canary Wharf-ite's to battle against each other for the [...]
Video: We take a look around Europe’s first Bitcoin shop February 18, 2014 Bitcoin had a pretty rough time of it last week. The Apple app store banned it, so did Russia, $2.7m worth of the cryptocurrency was nicked from Silk Road 2 and its value fell to half of what it was two weeks before. But here’s some good Bitcoin news. Europe’s first physical Bitcoin [...]
Pictures: Artists recreate the Game of Thrones Wall in the City February 17, 2014 Wildlings beware, the City’s Bishop’s Square has become the unlikely site for a 3D painted version of the Game of Thrones Wall. The large-scale pavement painting, which gives passers by the impression they are standing on the top of the fictional parapet, has been commissioned (predictably) by HBO to celebrate the release of season [...]
This Valentine’s Day’s most unromantic gestures February 13, 2014 It’s the day before Valentine’s Day. Millions of people are no doubt racking their brains to think of something romantic to do for their loved one, manically typing “Valentine’s ideas” into Google and hoping some fresh idea will have appeared since they first Googled it this morning. The weather’s too bad for a romantic [...]
Top 6 building disasters: The Walkie Scorchie is not alone February 11, 2014 The City’s 37 story Jaguar-melter, otherwise known as the Walkie Scorchie, is under review this week. It looks like Land Securities, the skyscraper’s developer, is due to submit a planning application which will outline how it intends to deal with the building’s dangerous reflective glare, which has seen it melt part of a [...]