Sir Terry Leahy joins social media company Starcount…but still not Twitter February 10, 2014 Former Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy has leapt into social media, wallet blazing, by both investing in and becoming a board member of fan science company Starcount. Sir Terry will be joining old Tesco comrades Clive Humby and Edwina Dunn – the pioneers behind the supermarket’s Clubcard – who took stakes in [...]
Where can you find London’s most expensive cocktails? February 4, 2014 So apparently the world’s most expensive cocktail has been served and, we’d like to hope, enjoyed, in Russia’s Reka restaurant. The drink was created to celebrate the opening of Moscow’s first ever “ice terrace” (is that actually a novelty in Russia?) and went for $50,000 (£30,660) to Revka regular and entrepreneur Andrey Melnikov. Michel [...]
Watch the first footage of TV hit ’24’ filmed in the City February 3, 2014 It's the stuff of dreams. A. The next series of 24 is on its way. B. Part of it has been filmed in London. Film crews were spotted on Cobb Street in Aldgate back on 22 January and now Fox has released the footage, titled "Street Chaos | 24: Live Another Day". Cobb Street, [...]
Did Google Glass just get a lot more wearable? January 28, 2014 Those spectacle wearing folk among you feeling ostracised by the fact that you wouldn’t be able to wear uber-geeky tech toy, Google Glass, because of your prescription needs, can pop the champagne corks now – welcome to the club – Google has created prescription frames which work with Glass technology. And we’re not [...]
Sharks versus bankers January 27, 2014 Frank Moxton (middle) watches as the sharkes swim by You’ve had Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, well, now it’s bankers versus sharks. Corporate financier Frank Moxon, a junior warden of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers (WCIB), led an intrepid team of seven volunteers from the City, up to Liverpool, to jump into a [...]
Did you see this flashmob at the Royal Exchange this morning? January 23, 2014 Commuters walking past the Royal Exchange around 9am this morning spotted something unusual. A flashmob of pink and red leotarded aerobics dancers prancing in front of the steps of the historic building, to be precise. Not exactly Bank's usual suspects. Why were they there? Drumming up publicity for Shelter's tower running challenge, [...]
The book Goldman Sachs doesn’t want you to see January 22, 2014 It’s official, the person behind @GSElevator, one of the greatest spies to come our way since 007, has got themselves a book deal. The anonymous tweeter, who claims to give the world snippets of conversations from the Goldman Sachs elevator, has wrangled a deal with publisher Simon & Schuster. Here are [...]
Could Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom spark an entrepreneur album trend? January 21, 2014 (Kim Dotcom) Kim Dotcom, the founder of the now shut down internet sensation Megaupload, is a fan of an anniversary. The entrepreneur/hacker/DJ, who at 6’7” could himself be described as “mega”, has celebrated the two year anniversary of the day the FBI raided his New Zealand home and closed his file sharing site, by [...]
Is Ed Miliband the only politician who doesn’t like beer? January 20, 2014 Political bloggatron Harry Cole posted this video of Ed Miliband drinking ale while visiting a British brewery with the words "Ed Miliband hates British beer." We haven't spoken to the Labour leader to confirm whether this is the case, apparently he has more important things to talk about, but you can see from his [...]
Why is Luxembourg being so mean to this German teddy company? January 16, 2014 A European court showed no signs of going soft on German teddy bear maker Steiff when it ruled against its trademark application this morning. The 134-year old company had hoped to win a trademark for a button, or a label attached by means of a button, to the middle of the ear [...]