ITV to offer adverts with Shazam April 19, 2012 ITV has signed a deal which will see it become the exclusive UK distributor of Shazam-enabled TV advertising. Viewers who have the popular music-finding app on their smartphone will be able to use it to interact with Shazam-enabled adverts to enter competitions, gain product information or download free music. Shazam for TV has been successful [...]
Ex-Wallabies star Lynagh suffers stroke April 18, 2012 FORMER Australia and Saracens fly-half Michael Lynagh was last night recovering in a Brisbane hospital after suffering a suspected stroke. The 48-year-old, who was part of the 1991 Rugby World Cup-winning Wallabies team, is thought to be in intensive care and undergoing tests. Lynagh, who won 72 caps and remains Australia’s record points scorer with [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING April 17, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Canadian approached for BoE job Mark Carney, governor of Canada’s central bank, has been informally approached to be a candidate to replace Sir Mervyn King as head of the Bank of England in June next year. One of the world’s most respected central bankers, Carney also heads the Financial Stability Board, which oversees [...]
Live 3D will bring the Games to you April 17, 2012 London 2012 will be the first-ever Olympic Games broadcast live in 3D, so even if you don’t have a ticket, the Games can still seem closer than ever. The BBC is promising to screen the opening and closing ceremonies and the men’s 100m final, but if you are a Sky+ HD subscriber, you could watch [...]
Do not hang up, your call is very important to us April 15, 2012 GETTING to the airport only to find that your flight is cancelled is everyone’s worst nightmare. But when we become really hopping mad is trying to get through to the airline’s call centre for a refund. It shouldn’t come as a surprise then that a new league table of the longest call centre queues names [...]
CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 15, 2012 Irwin Mitchell The UK solicitor firm has appointed Denny Payton as partner in its motor team. Payton has been a solicitor for over nineteen years and has extensive experience working for major insurers, corporate fleets and brokers. Her focus is on delivering outsourcing services to international clients. DLA Piper Prakash Paran has joined the law [...]
A seemingly uninspiring outfit that fashioned over $500m April 15, 2012 I THINK I was having a coffee with friends when one of them, Natalie Massenet, casually asked me to back her new idea, Net-A-Porter.com, a haute couture website with access to the top labels. It was early 2000 and the tech-boom was raging. Valuations were sky-high and every man, woman and dog had a “brilliant” [...]
BEST of the BROKERS April 11, 2012 BT GROUP JP Morgan Cazenove has downgraded the telecoms group from “overweight” to “neutral” following a strong share price performance that has seen it rise by 20 per cent over six months, compared to a drop of five per cent across the European telecoms sector. The broker sees revenue risk in both the full year [...]
The economics of the airline industry are sheer hell April 10, 2012 AVIATION has changed massively since the era of Pan Am, a byword for style and sophistication in its 1960s heyday. The once besuited passengers have been replaced by an understandably angry mob, fighting to fit their suitcases into fluorescent-coloured over-head cabins. It is out with the caviar and freshly cooked roast beef and in with [...]
Gunners to put final nail in City’s title bid April 4, 2012 ARSENAL vs MANCHESTER CITY Sunday – 4.00pm Sky Sports 1 ROBERTO Mancini could be forgiven for playing Oasis’s ‘Where Did It All Go Wrong?’ on repeat on his iPod. Just over a month ago Manchester City were still five points clear of local rivals Manchester United, but now, with only seven games to go, they [...]