The table of two is a restaurateur’s worst nightmare. Our resident chef Mark Hix wants Valentine’s Day diners to team up February 13, 2018 Today, in case you needed a last minute reminder, is Valentine’s Day, the one day of the year on which we are bound by law to exchange flowers, chocolates and those little bears holding love hearts with insufferably twee phrases embroidered on them. Perhaps like me you try to avoid the whole ordeal. Or perhaps, [...]
Forget embracing failure, startups deserve the best possible shot at success February 12, 2018 Last year in the UK, 70 new businesses were started every hour. In just three years’ time, up to 90 per cent of them will have failed. Business failure is often a personal tragedy, though inevitable in a dynamic market economy. However, not every failure is due to a lack of demand for a product [...]
Amazon is launching a shipping company to compete with UPS and FedEx February 9, 2018 Online retail giant Amazon is branching out and launching a shipping business, placing it in direct competition with the likes of UPS and FedEx. According to the Wall Street Journal, Shipping with Amazon (SWA) will pick up packages from businesses and ship them to consumers. The group is expected to roll out the new delivery [...]
Jeremy Hunt thinks social media’s as bad for kids as smoking and obesity February 8, 2018 The health secretary Jeremy Hunt has claimed that social media can be as damaging to children as smoking or obesity in one of the starkest warning yet from the government that it is eyeing curbs on tech companies He likened the effects on young people’s mental health as “every bit as big a threat” as [...]
Microsoft Surface Book 2 review: The 2-in-1 powerhouse gets 15-inch upgrade February 8, 2018 The Microsoft Surface Book 2 looks a lot like the original Surface Book, which is great news for those who fear change. It’s still got that vast 3:2 ratio screen, above a great slab of a base that looks like it could have been hewn from a single cuboid of brushed metal Microsoft discovered [...]
EU warns Apple’s bid for Shazam could hit competition ahead of a probe into the deal February 6, 2018 The European Commission has said Apple’s takeover of Shazam could have a significant impact on competition in Europe. The EU’s antitrust regulator will look into the iPhone maker’s acquisition of the UK-based music discovery app following a request from seven countries. Austria, France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Spain and Sweden requested that the Commission assess the [...]
DEBATE: Will Janet Yellen’s departure from the Federal Reserve signal a shift in US monetary policy? February 5, 2018 Will Janet Yellen’s departure from the Federal Reserve signal a shift in US monetary policy? Vicky Pryce, CEBR board member and former joint head of the Government Economic Service, says YES. Janet Yellen stepped down last Saturday after having headed the Federal Reserve for the past four years – the first woman to have ever [...]
Broadcom to ramp up pressure on Qualcomm with new $120bn bid February 4, 2018 Broadcom is set to unveil a new bid of around $120bn (£85bn) for rival chip maker Qualcomm. The firm was set to finalise a deal tonight that values Qualcomm at between $80 and $82 per share, up from a previous offer of $70 a share, made up of $60 per share in cash and $10 [...]
Focus On Vauxhall: Donald Trump might not be keen on it, but international investors dig these skyscrapers south of the river February 2, 2018 Vauxhall got dragged through the mud by no less a figure than the President of the United States recently. The US Embassy’s much touted move to the “off location” was supposedly the reason behind Donald Trump’s cancelled visit to the UK, even though the new building has its own moat. Clearly, tech behemoth Apple didn’t [...]
Less is more: Apple beats expectations but unit sales fall February 1, 2018 Apple delivered better-than-expected fourth-quarter profits, though warned its unit sales were on the wane. Shares in the world’s biggest company rose over two per cent, putting it in pole position as US tech giants race to be the first to a $1 trillion stock market valuation. Revenue and earnings beat Wall Street forecasts. Revenue was [...]