Home buyer demand doubles property sales to £149bn this year April 27, 2021 A surge in home buyer demand has resulted in £149bn worth of properties being sold so far this year, double the value in the same period in 2020 and 2019. According to the latest research, one in every 50 homes was sold between 1 January and 15 April, up from one in every 100 homes [...]
Mobile surge coming as reserve currencies reach life expectancy April 27, 2021 Mobile devices will economically empower the masses, says Dr Chris Kacher, as reserve currencies bow out.
Digital health app Livi secures $2bn valuation after fresh funding round April 27, 2021 Digital GP platform Kry today said it has raised $300m (£216m) in a fresh funding round after enjoying a surge in demand for remote healthcare services during the pandemic. The new cash injection, led by CPP Investments and Fidelity, takes the company’s valuation to over $2bn — almost three times the price tag given after [...]
Lotus Emira: first details of Norfolk’s new Porsche 911 rival April 27, 2021 The new Emira will be the final petrol-powered Lotus sports car – with ‘lifestyle’ models also on the way. Here's what we know so far.
Ethiopia overhauls its education system with IOHK blockchain partnership April 27, 2021 Global blockchain specialist IOHK has partnered with the Ethiopian government to overhaul the nation's education system.
DEBATE: Should startups spend precious resources getting patents for their ideas? April 27, 2021 Peter Finnie, partner and patent attorney at IP law firm Potter Clarkson, says YES: Consider IP protection from the belief the customer is always right. Across countless industries, founders determine what customers want, make it and then sell it. Investors will want security and certainty around protection for the technology they’re committing to. By skipping [...]
Trading at all hours: The portfolio implications April 27, 2021 Millions of retail investors opened up brokerage accounts this past year and many took to trading throughout the day as a way to pass the time, keep themselves entertained, and make a bit of money. So did all this trading actually help the average retail investor’s portfolio during the COVID-19–dominated months of 2020? Nighttime is [...]
Rupert Murdoch ditches plans for ‘commercially unviable’ TV channel April 27, 2021 Rupert Murdoch’s News UK empire has scrapped plans to launch a TV news channel after a review found the project was “not commercially viable”. News UK, which owns the Times and Sun newspapers, had been developing plans to regain a footing in the TV market with a new channel focused on delivering news programming via [...]
City of London plans to convert empty office space into housing April 27, 2021 Empty office space in the City will be converted into housing as part of a wider post-Covid revamp of the Square Mile. The City of London Corporation has outlined plans to convert some of the vacant office space into at least 1,500 new units by 2030. It comes as part of an overhaul of the [...]
EY quits as auditor of P2P lender Kuflink over governance concerns April 27, 2021 EY has resigned as auditor of peer-to-peer lender Kuflink after finding a litany of problems at the group, including worries about its general oversight. The Big Four firm stepped down as auditor on 16 February, according to a letter on Companies House, which said Kuflink had “significant work” to do on multiple aspects of its [...]
