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 [...]
How to avoid paying the loyalty penalty on your mortgage August 2, 2017 Whether we think of family, friends or our pets, most of us see loyalty as a positive attribute to have. But for homeowners, it can be quite the opposite, as new evidence suggests many of us are forking out thousands of pounds every year in excessive mortgage fees by sticking with one lender. A [...]
Amazon’s share price has fallen – meaning Jeff Bezos isn’t the richest man in the world any more July 28, 2017 It’s all over for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who briefly became the richest man in the world yesterday, before seeing his fortune take a dive after the company’s second quarter earnings missed expectations. Today shares fell further, dropping four per cent to $1,005 on the opening bell in New York, pushing the company’s market capitalisation [...]
How to increase app downloads July 27, 2017 Whether you’re an app developer, you are responsible for commissioning app development or you’re simply tasked with promoting your organisation’s apps, the challenge of ensuring your app is found, downloaded and used has never been more difficult. The rise of the app has been well documented. In the 10 years since the smartphone (and then [...]
Amazon is now worth half a trillion dollars as market cap surges past $500bn ahead of earnings July 26, 2017 Amazon is now worth half a trillion dollars… yep, that’s trillion with a T and an R. The retail and technology giant’s market cap shot above the mark ahead of earnings due on Thursday and as stocks across the board on Wall Street were swept higher. Read more: Jeff Bezos is tantalisingly close to becoming [...]
Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are embroiled in a geeky spat over artificial intelligence and robots July 26, 2017 We can officially hand out the award for geekiest fight of the year. Two of the most influential entrepreneurs of the last decade, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, have entered into a war of words over the future of robots and artificial intelligence. The pair have taken opposing sides in the [...]
Tapping third-party app stores to improve downloads July 25, 2017 Generally speaking, app developers, like brands in a supermarket, are in a battle for two scarce resources: consumer attention and shelf space. Lab Cave, a mobile games company headquartered in Madrid, is looking beyond distribution on the “digital shelves” of the Apple App Store and Google Play. It’s part of a bid to cash in [...]
Barclays bPay, a £20 contactless pay wristband, given away for free in latest sign bank’s wearable has flopped July 19, 2017 Barclays has started giving away a contactless payments device normally costing £20 in the latest signal that its technology efforts have failed to take off. The bank is offering the bPay wearable band or key fob, used to pay for things with just a swipe, for free in a push to get them into people's [...]
If Brexiteers need a real reason to leave the EU, just look at Italy July 18, 2017 As the painful and quite frankly embarrassing stumble out of Europe continues for the UK, I watch with sadness at the pathetic lack of conviction of both the previous Remain and pro-Leave camps. It’s never been easier for this journalist to sit on the fence in splendid apolitical isolation given that the pro-Brexit camp doesn’t [...]
Initial Coin Offerings: Are they a solution to Bitcoin woes? July 11, 2017 Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have taken the fintech world by storm the last few months. ICOs are tokens, typically based on the technology underlying Bitcoin’s more versatile cousin Ethereum, that entrepreneurs sell to investors in exchange for cryptocurrency – typically either Bitcoin or Ether, the cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network. Interestingly, these tokens do not [...]