Rapid Responses September 26, 2012 Clegg on housing [Re: The ideas emerging from Lib Dem conference dissolve under scrunity, Tuesday] Nick Clegg, and the coalition more broadly, are failing to pursue sufficient supply-side reform in the housing sector. The reason approved sites are lying idle is because the current planning system limits supply. The really big money is to be [...]
State-of-the-art studio has style and substance September 26, 2012 Media company BSkyB approached K+N to work with it on the design and implementation of its new studio space for Sky Sports News. The privately owned furniture company was founded in 1925 and has grown to become the largest manufacturer of office furniture in Europe. The sports channel, along with a number of other Sky [...]
Delivering a project of this scale requires a meticulous approach September 26, 2012 BSKYB set out to build the most ecologically sustainable broadcasting complex in Europe – it did not want to merely build a monument to the Sky brand. Instead, BSkyB was after a building that would allow it to change and grow. Sky Sports News was to be the first, and largest, studio to go on [...]
The iPhone 5 – is it more than a 4SS? September 26, 2012 Connectivity One of the biggest selling points for the iPhone 5 is its 4G technology, which will make mobile browsing far, far quicker. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been switched on yet in the UK. Tthe newly rebranded “EE” (formerly Everything Everywhere), plans to launch the first 4G network in London within “weeks”. If you’re on another [...]
Why Apple is playing the long-game with its Maps app September 26, 2012 An Apple user walks into a bar. Or a church. Or a field. He’s not really sure. Ha! A joke at Apple’s expense! That’s not something you hear every day. If you believe the hype, problems with Apple’s in-house Maps app could be the iPhone 5’s equivalent of the antenna troubles that dogged the launch [...]
Banks give up Libor control September 25, 2012 KEY interbank lending rate Libor will no longer be run by the British Bankers’ Association (BBA), the industry body announced yesterday, with regulators set to take control in the wake of the rate-fixing scandal. Libor – which banks use as a benchmark interest rate and indicates whether lending conditions are good or bad – has [...]
Tony Hayward’s Genel keeps close eye on Rothschild’s Bumi September 25, 2012 FINANCIER Nat Rothschild’s very public rows with Indonesia’s Bakrie family have been discussed with the other founders of his second publicly-listed stock market vehicle, Genel Energy, City A.M. has learned. According to sources close to the Genel Energy board, former BP chief executive Tony Hayward, who is spearheading the management team with Julian Metherell, was [...]
S&P slashes its forecasts for Eurozone September 25, 2012 THE EUROZONE’S economy will fail to grow until 2014, according to revised estimates published by credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s yesterday. The S&P report said that the crisis-hit single currency area will suffer a 0.8 per cent economic contraction this year, followed by stagnation in 2013. Only in 2014 will the debt-burdened Eurozone begin [...]
Wheatley signals an asset manager fee clampdown September 25, 2012 MARTIN Wheatley, managing director of the Financial Services Authority, yesterday fired a warning shot across the bows of the asset management industry by indicating active management charges will face increased scrutiny when new regulators take power next year. Wheatley, set to lead FSA replacement the Financial Conduct Authority when it launches in the first quarter [...]
Fiscal crisis continues to threaten our struggling economy September 25, 2012 IT is hard to disagree with Standard & Poor’s that the Eurozone is likely to see zero growth until 2014. The situation is worsening again, especially in Spain, where the budget crisis is intensifying amid separationist tensions, and in Greece, which could soon be demoted to being an emerging market again by the FTSE. None [...]
