The movies to look out for this Jubilee weekend May 31, 2012 FILM PROMETHEUS Cert 15 | By Steve Dinneen *** So Alien prequel Prometheus has finally landed, 30 years after Ridley Scott first directed the universe’s most terrifying life-form. That’s a lot of time to gestate, especially in a world where alien offspring take just a couple of hours to burst from your chest in a [...]
TECH NEWS May 30, 2012 New poker app lands on Android and iOS A new app from PokerStars will let you show off you silky card skills – or give your cash to strangers – on the go. The slick app, which is available on iOS and Android, is easy to use and fiendishly playable. Former pro Victoria Coren played [...]
BEST of the BROKERS May 29, 2012 JOHNSON MATTHEY Credit Suisse rates the chemicals company “neutral” and has raised its target price by 50p to £24 to reflect its increased earnings per share forecasts for 2013-15. The broker now expects to see 19 per cent year-on-year growth in profit before tax. However, the broker prefers Belgian rival Umicore as its long-term materials [...]
Hunt backed BSkyB deal before he judged the bid May 24, 2012 DAVID Cameron faced fresh questions over his judgment last night after it emerged he knew Jeremy Hunt was an enthusiastic backer of News Corp’s £8bn bid for BSkyB when he asked the culture secretary to decide on the deal. The Prime Minister gave Hunt a quasi-judicial role in December 2010 after Vince Cable, the business [...]
O’Brien still tight-lipped on Investec Derby team identity May 24, 2012 AIDAN O’Brien still remains reluctant to confirm the exact make-up of his Investec Derby team, although he confirmed yesterday at Epsom’s ‘Breakfast with the Stars’ that his teenage son Joseph would be on hot favourite Camelot a week tomorrow. The master of Ballydoyle gave nothing more away via telephone link other than the fact that [...]
Cavendish extends points lead May 24, 2012 CYCLING: Team Sky’s Mark Cavendish tightened his grip on the Giro d’Italia points jersey despite losing a sprint finish to the 18th stage. Italian Andrea Guardini beat the Manxman, who extended his lead over Joaquim Rodriguez to 29 points.
Sky Movies is cleared in probe thanks to Lovefilm and Netflix May 23, 2012 SATELLITE broadcaster BSkyB no longer dominates the pay-TV movie market following the arrival of new entrants Lovefilm and Netflix, the competition watchdog said yesterday in a reversal of its initial findings. But the decision drew angry responses from Sky’s main rivals BT and Virgin, who said its Sky Movies channel reduces competition. Laura Carstensen, chairman of the [...]
HMV mulls potential break-up of its live entertainment arm May 21, 2012 MUSIC chain HMV is said to be considering a break up of its live entertainment business as it struggles to drum up interest from bidders for its festivals arm. Earlier this year, HMV hired bankers at Citigroup to find a buyer for its profitable HMV Live division, which runs 13 music venues and stages five [...]
Ryanair says fuel prices will drive down profits May 21, 2012 BUDGET airline Ryanair yesterday announced record profits of €503m (£406m) for the year to March 2012, an increase of a quarter on a like-for-like basis. But the Dublin-based firm said that this would be the last year of expectation-beating profit rises and warned that returns could drop by as much as 20 per cent during the next [...]
Sky could win reprieve over pay TV probe May 20, 2012 THE COMPETITION Commission is to publish a preliminary report this week suggesting that BSkyB’s dominance in the pay-TV movie market has been weakened by new entrants, reducing the need to impose restrictions, it is understood. Following the entry of Amazon-owned LoveFilm and fellow US operator Netflix into the market – which both offer films online and [...]