Huawei P8 Lite (2017) review: The best phone you can buy in this price bracket July 12, 2018 Are you sitting comfortably? Then let’s begin untangling Huawei’s utterly incomprehensible naming conventions. The Huawei P8 Lite (2017) is the updated version of the original P8 Lite, which is the stripped-down budget version of Huawei’s 2015 flagship, the Huawei P8. The P8 and old P8 Lite were followed by the P9 and P9 Lite, themselves [...]
Legal case against former Apple employee reveals trade secrets on its self-driving car technology July 11, 2018 Criminal charges filed against an ex-Apple employee for stealing trade secrets on the company's self-driving car technology have revealed some interesting new details on what Apple is up to. Xiaolang Zhang was charged by a US federal court over evidence submitted by Apple that Zhang accepted a position at Chinese rival Xmotors, and downloaded the [...]
Old Mutual North American Equity added to the Foundation Fundlist Ian Heslop outperform S&P 500 US stock market quantitative FANG Amazon Facebook July 10, 2018 Finding funds that consistently outperform the American market is, it is often said, notoriously difficult. This has certainly been the experience over the past decade, accentuated in the past few years by the dominance of larger companies in dictating market returns, notably the so-called ‘FAANG’ stocks: the quintet of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google, [...]
HTC sales drop 68 per cent in June, the biggest slump the smartphone maker has had in over two years July 6, 2018 Smartphone maker HTC today released sales figures for June which showed the company is currently undergoing its biggest slump in more than two years. HTC said its consolidated revenue for June 2018 came in at 2.23bn Taiwanese dollars (£55.3m), falling 67.64 per cent from the same month last year at $6.8bn. Its numbers also fell [...]
The Petersham at Petersham Nurseries in Covent Garden review: Some decent, basic food for those willing to splurge an obscene amount July 5, 2018 Covent Garden has reinvented itself more times than Madonna, had more facelifts than Mickey Rourke, seen more costume changes than Matthew Kelly. Once a Monk’s vegetable patch, it’s been home to prostitutes and drunks, clowns and mimes, apples and Apple. Before Capital & Counties (Capco) bought the market and the surrounding seven acres in 2006, [...]
Chef’s Table: M Restaurant Chef Mike Reid interviews former England and Manchester United star Andrew Cole July 5, 2018 This month, M Restaurant chef Mike Reid cooks lunch for former Manchester United and England striker Andrew Cole, as they discuss the pressure on footballers, recovering from a kidney transplant, and why Australia is terrifying. STARTER: Cured Sicilian red prawns with potato sauce, peas and almonds; Burrata with baby tomatoes, spiced bread and red pepper; [...]
This bull market has relied on technology shares July 4, 2018 This has been a long and unusually hesitant and worried bull market. Indeed, there have been a substantial number of sectors that have lived through their own bear markets whilst the overall indices push on to new highs. The US has outperformed the other advanced country equity markets and China easily over the twelve months, [...]
Fortnum and Masons suffers major data hack, with 23,000 customers potentially affected July 2, 2018 British retail behemoth Fortnum and Masons has been the latest victim of a major data hack, it was revealed today. The personal information of some 23,000 customers is left at stake, exposed through a partnership the company had established with survey company Typeform for its food and drink awards. Specifically, those who voted through Typeform [...]
The digital revolution comes to healthcare: NHS unveils new app designed to empower patients July 2, 2018 The government has today unveiled plans for a free NHS mobile app to make accessing health services quicker and easier. Not only does the app give patients remote access to their medical records, it also allows them to make appointments with their GP and order repeat prescriptions as well as get medical advice from the [...]
Wimbledon 2018: Zverev, Dimitrov, Del Potro, Kyrgios, Cilic – Can anybody challenge Federer and Nadal? July 1, 2018 Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have a stranglehold on men’s tennis. It’s not the first time the two greats of the game have combined to monopolise the grand slams, but with those two legends aged 36 and 32 respectively some might have expected their superpowers to be on the wane. They’re not. Federer and Nadal [...]