Amazon plates up sponsorship to Great British Bake Off March 29, 2018 Amazon announced today that it signed on as The Great British Bake Off’s headline sponsor this year. The deal is reportedly worth £5m — one of the largest sponsorships in UK entertainment history — and the show’s ninth season will bake in the capabilities of virtual assistant Alexa as well as the Echo smart speakers. [...]
National Numeracy Day is needed to help improve the UK’s maths skills March 28, 2018 Many adults in the UK, through no fault of their own, don’t have the numeracy skills needed in everyday work and life. Less than half (49 per cent) of UK working-age adults currently possess the numeracy levels expected of primary school children. This is having a significant impact on their happiness and their day-to-day lives. [...]
Easter Egg taste test 2018: The best luxury eggs in the UK March 27, 2018 The Easter Collection, Pierre Marcolini £135, eu.marcolini.com, 8/10 Though it’s by far the priciest ovum, it’s also the one you’ll still be eating in May. Accompanied by an army of pralines, it’s available at the Marylebone boutique and the counters at Harrods and Selfridges. • “Dark, layered, classy” • “Nice, but not all it’s cracked [...]
Used car fintech startup Oodle has grabbed £100m of funding from Citigroup March 27, 2018 Oodle, the used car fintech startup co-founded by an ex-banker, has just grabbed £100m of funding from Citigroup. The young business, which scooped a £60m investment from private equity giant KKR last year, has already received more than £1.18bn worth of finance applications through its website which merges car searching and financing. Citigroup’s funding is [...]
British Summer Time pioneer William Willett built Elsworthy House in Primrose Hill and it’s on sale for £15m March 25, 2018 You wouldn’t think it to step outside, but this Sunday is officially the start of British Summer Time. The clocks jump forward an hour on 25 March to give us all more time in the sun and it’s all down to the man who built this house in Primrose Hill. Elsworthy House, Primrose Hill, £15m [...]
The highest penthouse in Europe is at Zlotta 44 in Warsaw, Poland March 24, 2018 The sweeping shape of Daniel Libeskind’s Zlota 44 glass skyscraper in Warsaw evokes an eagle in flight, or – as the locals would have it – a sail. Those images of freedom are no accident; the locally-born architect was a child of Holocaust survivors determined to bring a new feeling of liberation to a city [...]
#DeleteFacebook: How can the social media giant bounce back? March 23, 2018 THE HASHTAG WAS popularised by Twitter. Now it is being used to criticise the company that owns Twitter, on Twitter. #DeleteFacebook is only the latest proof that the social media giant is in trouble. Fake news, falling stock, glaring data breaches. A 9% drop off Facebook’s shares. Mark Zuckerberg’s world-beating platform is in the [...]
Focus On Hackney: How the London Overground caused a price surge in E8 March 23, 2018 Though the area around Hackney Central is better known as hipster central, the property prices certainly don’t reflect the salaries of young, freelance creatives. The E8 postcode has seen some of the most dramatic house price rises in the whole of London, a trend that has survived the plateau-ing – and declines – of recent [...]
Focus On Hackney: How the London Overground caused a price surge in E8 March 23, 2018 Though the area around Hackney Central is better known as hipster central, the property prices certainly don’t reflect the salaries of young, freelance creatives. The E8 postcode has seen some of the most dramatic house price rises in the whole of London, a trend that has survived the plateau-ing – and declines – of recent [...]
BT candidates face “Crystal Maze” challenges as part of firm’s 1,300 new job push March 21, 2018 BT is to use a virtual reality version of “Crystal Maze” challenges to separate the wheat from the chaff as part of a new hiring spree. The telecoms giant is to create more than 1,300 graduate and apprenticeship jobs in the UK. It claims to be one the first companies in Britain to use such [...]