Revealed: The most-traded investments in July reflect a commodities recovery August 2, 2017 Investment and trading platform Interactive Investor has revealed its top most-traded for the month of July. The rankings reflected a recovery in commodities price, the ever-present poplarity of tech stocks, and strong demand for Lloyds. Top by a mile Most traded large cap shares Lloyds AstraZeneca Glaxosmithkline BP BT Despite missing analyst expectations in its [...]
UK taxi turnover falls for the first time in five years as Uber drives up its network expansion July 24, 2017 The rise of Uber has driven taxi firms’ turnover off course, according to research out today from accountancy firm Moore Stephens. An analysis of the UK’s top 100 largest taxi and minicab firms noted that turnover had dipped three per cent from £495m in 2014/15 to £479m in 2015/16. There had been consistent growth in [...]
Rapid vehicle-charging business Engenie aims to fire up its engines with £1m investment opportunity through SyndicateRoom July 20, 2017 The electric car market appears to be slowly revving up, as vehicle-charging business Engenie has announced it is raising £1m to expand across the UK. The four-year-old business is aiming to capitalise on recent moves from the likes of Volvo, which said all new models would be electric by 2019, and Emmanuel Macron’s government in [...]
Ford chief executive Mark Fields leaves in management shake-up as boss of driverless car unit Jim Hackett replaces him May 22, 2017 The chief executive of Ford is being replaced by another Ford executive, Jim Hackett. Mark Fields has chosen to retire after 28 years with the firm. Read more: Ford to cut 10 per cent of salaried jobs across the pond Hackett oversaw the Ford subsidiary that works on driverless cars, Ford Smart Mobility. The US [...]
Autonomous and connected vehicles: a view from Europe April 28, 2017 I attended the first ever European Commission European Conference on Connected & Automated Driving (CAD) in early April. Next generation transportation and vehicle connectivity was the theme. The European Commission expect to see fully autonomous vehicles by 2040. This means Driverless vehicles. In October 2016 the Declaration of Amsterdam was signed by all 29 countries [...]
Elon Musk has another ambitious energy project and this time it’s free March 10, 2017 Elon Musk has risen to the challenge of fixing South Australia’s power crisis in 100 days. If he can’t accomplish the goal within that time? He’ll do it for free. The Tesla executive responded to co-founder of the software company Atlassian, Mike Cannon-Brookes, on Twitter following Tesla vice president Lyndon Rive's own claim that he would [...]
SpaceX to boldly go where no private company has gone before: The Moon February 27, 2017 Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk will fly two people around the moon next year, boldly going where no private company has gone before. In an announcement late last night Musk said two unnamed private citizens had approached his company, SpaceX, and had paid a “significant deposit” to secure the mission. The announcement could start a new [...]
Tesla says its new mass-market car remains on track as it reports narrowing losses February 22, 2017 Tesla posted a smaller loss for the quarter to 31 December, as it declared that its new mass-market saloon was on track to enter production by September. Elon Musk's electric car maker reported net loss attributable to common shareholders of $121.3m (£97m) for the three months period, down from $320m in the same quarter of [...]
Revealed: The 20 toughest job interview questions asked by UK companies February 22, 2017 We've all been faced with that moment when a job interviewer asks that curveball question – and you only have a few seconds to come up with the perfect answer. Now job site Glassdoor has listed the 20 toughest interview questions asked by UK employers, with questions from the likes of Tesla, Microsoft and British Airways. Here are the worst [...]
WATCH: The world’s first actual real hoverbike has been tested in a warehouse and it’s insane February 21, 2017 Admit it: you've been waiting for this. A San Francisco-based company has said it's tested out the first-ever fully-manned hoverbike – and it has the footage to prove it. Hoversurf, which has experimented with technology including a hover-taxi and a drone-powered jetpack, said its Scorpion single-seat aircraft can be flown "with the same simplicity as riding [...]