This study shows why wife bonuses are a bad idea – earning more than your spouse makes them more likely to cheat June 1, 2015 Could the "wife bonus", revealed by the New York Times last month, be fuelling unfaithful marriages? A study by the University of Connecticut has suggested the arrangement, under which a wife is financially rewarded for "good wifing", could make her more likely to stray. Actually, this doesn't just apply to wives – the researchers looked at the propensity to [...]
Fighting forward: The Black Farmer’s Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones talks sausages, political incorrectness and willpower May 31, 2015 Being an entrepreneur is all about timing. You can have the best-laid plans in the world, a huge amount of skill, but it’s really about catching the zeitgeist.” This is Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones’s opening line to me. After a brief pause, he adds, “life is also all about timing”. This is something the founder of [...]
Inside Uber’s huge new San Francisco HQ: Concept design pictures reveal plans for 420,000 sq ft Mission Bay office May 30, 2015 When you're one of the most highly valued startups in the world with millions of dollars of venture capital backing, there's a few things you could splash some of that cash on. For Uber, as well as expanding its global empire, that means building a huge new headquarters from which to mastermind that world domination. Plans [...]
Bold Tendencies: Richard Wentworth May 29, 2015 Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park | ★★★★☆ Sure, the days are getting longer and the weather is hotting up, but nothing signals the beginning of summer in south London like the opening of Frank’s Cafe in Peckham multi-storey car park. While most come for the booze and the views, influential young curator Hannah Barry has turned [...]
Quindell share price falls as it finalises Slater & Gordon deal and Lord Howard joins board May 29, 2015 Shares in troubled insurance claims outsourcer Quindell fell in late morning trading after the company announced it had completed a deal to sell its professional services division to legal giant Slater & Gordon. The £637m sale of the division, which comprised 90 per cent of Quindell's business, will return £500m to shareholders. The company took the [...]
Film review: In Danny Collins Al Pacino learns how to grow old gracefully May 29, 2015 Cert 15 | ★★★★☆ Watching Al Pacino and Robert De Niro slog it out in 2008’s Righteous Kill, you’d be forgiven for thinking Pacino was finished. Gone. Destined to live out his days impotently raging at the dying of the light, playing wrinkled, rattly-boned versions of the live-wires he once infused with febrile intensity. [...]
Buzzfeed IPO: Boss Jonah Peretti says media company intends to go public May 28, 2015 Finally, the world will learn how much listicles and cat gifs are worth after the boss of Buzzfeed revealed his intention to take the media company public. Jonah Peretti, the founder and chief executive of the online media company – beloved by the young and envied by the executives of legacy media companies – told an [...]
Julie Dedman joins Obtala Resources May 27, 2015 THE AIM -listed agri-business Obtala Resources has hired Julie Dedman as a consultant and strategist. Dedman is an established name in the field, having started her first business in 1984, and now runs nine different enterprises in areas like food manufacturing, facilities management, and manufacturing instruments for surgical ophthalmology. Dedman has also set up the [...]
Investing? what you must consider May 27, 2015 From minimising exposure to failure to ensuring adequate protection against dilution, there are ways to prepare before making your crowdfunding investment THERE is a lot of noise around the heightened risk investors are exposed to on crowdfunding platforms. But crowdfunding is venture capital, and venture capital is all about taking a higher level of risk [...]
Cricket Comment: Stokes can be England’s next true all-rounder May 27, 2015 Like many people I thought Jason Gillespie had a real shout of landing the England head coach’s job but I believe that Trevor Bayliss is a really good appointment and he is someone who will move the national side in the right direction. I spent a bit of time with him when I was with [...]