English lose squash finals January 6, 2013 ENGLAND’S Nick Matthew and Laura Massaro both fell short at the World Series Squash Finals at Queen’s Club yesterday. Massaro lost in straight games to world No1 Nicol David for the second successive tournament in the women’s final, before Matthew was beaten 3-1 by Egyptian Amr Shabana. The Englishman took the first set 11-4, but [...]
Adams beaten by Dutch teenager January 6, 2013 Three-time champion Martin Adams crashed out of the BDO world championship in the first round yesterday at Lakeside. Adams lost 3-2 to Dutch 18-year-old Jimmy Hendriks.
Robson loses to American starlet January 6, 2013 Britain’s Laura Robson fell out of the Hobart International yesterday, losing in two sets, 6-4 7-6 (7-4), to the US’s Sloane Stephens.
Saunders appointed Wolves boss January 6, 2013 Dean Saunders has left Doncaster Rovers to become the new manager of Wolves.
Twitter in $11bn mega-valuation January 3, 2013 TWITTER has been valued at $11bn ahead of a potential move to take the social network public next year. The micro-blogging company, which has gone from strength to strength in recent years as questions have been raised about its major competitor Facebook, appears to be lining up for a 2014 initial public offering (IPO), according [...]
Transocean settlement set at $1.4bn January 3, 2013 DRILLING contractor Transocean yesterday agreed to pay $1.4bn (£867m) in fines to settle charges with the US government relating to the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Transocean, the Switzerland-based owner of the Deepwater Horizon vessel, will pay $1bn in civil penalties and $400m in criminal penalties over five years under the [...]
Waitrose smashes Christmas sales records January 3, 2013 WAITROSE yesterday toasted record trading in the run-up to the New Year after the grocer said aggressive promotions on products such as champagne and its Brand Price Match campaign helped to lure customers from rivals. The upmarket supermarket, which is owned by John Lewis, said like-for-like sales rose 5.4 per cent between 18 December New [...]
Regulators let Google off lightly over search fixing January 3, 2013 US regulators yesterday cleared Google of fixing internet searches to favour its own services, although the settlement came with a number of concessions from the web giant. The company was forced to change ways it produces search results and how it displays adverts, following complaints from competitors that Google had abused its position as the world’s [...]
We need an export-led revolution to save the UK economy January 3, 2013 HAPPY New Year, dear readers. Let me begin my first column of 2013 with a plea to economists, policy-makers, commentators, politicians, financiers, business folk and everyone else who wants more growth and jobs. Please, please, spend less of your time obsessing about fresh ways to subsidise mortgages, pump prime the economy with more quantitative easing [...]
US fiscal cliff joy fades after Fed split on 2013 QE January 3, 2013 BUOYANT US traders were brought back down to earth yesterday after Federal Reserve minutes showed waning support for asset purchases in 2013, ending the euphoria felt by markets following Wednesday’s fiscal cliff deal. Meeting notes from the Federal Reserve monetary policy committee showed several of the 12 man group wanted to stop the Fed’s relentless [...]
