Banks lead FTSE up after bond auctions boost January 13, 2012 Banks led the FTSE 100 up this morning as they were buoyed by tentative signs of recovery in the Eurozone. European shares and the single currency rose after positive comments on the region’s outlook from the European Central Bank and the success of Spain’s bond auction yesterday. Meanwhile Italy launched a €4.75bn bond auction today. [...]
Cloud gaming is here – we ask if it was worth the wait January 11, 2012 Video games have come a long way since Mario helped to win over a generation of (almost exclusively) boys in the 1980s. Titles like Modern Warfare 3 are more profitable than most blockbuster Hollywood movies. The complexity and depth of games like LA Noire or the Bioshock franchise lend a cultural weight to an industry [...]
The man gunning for Sky in the battle to be king of the movies January 9, 2012 IT’S a brave man who takes on BSkyB. The UK’s undisputed champion of subscription TV continues to go from strength to strength, seemingly impervious to the problems facing its biggest shareholder. But there is a new kid in town who wants to muscle in on the action. Netflix launched its video streaming service in the [...]
BEST OF THE BROKERS January 9, 2012 ARM HOLDINGS FinnCap rates the Cambridge-based chipmaker as a “hold” with a target price of 575p, saying the company is at the heart of the mobile revolution, with its low power products ubiquitous in smartphone and tablet processors. The broker says the shares are “worth picking up on a bad day”, with plenty of upside [...]
Chinese dragons fly into the UK’s mobile warzone January 8, 2012 ASK someone to name the first smartphone that comes into their head and most people will say “iPhone”. Some might name a Samsung or even an HTC. Not many will mention Huawei or ZTE. But 2012 could be the year of the dragon, with the Chinese giants preparing to blitz the UK with a massive [...]
Preparing for flawless execution: BT takes on the Olympic challenge December 20, 2011 COUNTDOWN TO THE LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES 219 DAYS TO GO Gavin Patterson, BT Retail chief executive, explains why his firm is the communication partner at the Games Q. WHAT WAS YOUR BRAND’S PRIMARY REASON FOR BEING INVOLVED WITH THE GAMES? A. We went through a rigorous exercise where we looked at what impact it [...]
BT sues Google in US patent court December 19, 2011 Telecoms firm BT has launched legal action against Google in the US over patent infringement in a number of key areas for the technology group such as mobile map services. BT said yesterday that it had filed a claim relating to six patents which BT says are infringed by such services as Android, Google Maps, [...]
London 2012 Image of the week December 15, 2011 On Tuesday, BT launched its torchbearer nomination process. BT is one of three presenting partners for the Paralympic torch relay – the others being Lloyds TSB and Sainsbury’s. On 28 and 29 August next year, 580 torchbearers will work in teams of five to carry the flame during an overnight relay from Stoke Mandeville to [...]
Olympic Media Buzz LONDON 2012 PARTNERS December 11, 2011 IN ASSOCIATION with Repskan, the media monitoring and analytics platform, City A.M. is measuring the relative Olympic media buzz around the partners for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, week by week. The leaderboard, right, reflects their ranking over the past week, in this case from Wednesday 12 October to Wednesday 19 October. BT [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS December 6, 2011 Callatay & Wouters Callatay & Wouters, which provides IT solutions to retail, private and direct banks, has appointed Diederik Van Der Linden to the new position of sales and marketing director. Van Der Linden, who specialises in retail and private banking, joined the company in 2001 to lead the international business development team, before becoming [...]