Shares in Nintendo jumped again today as anticipation around its Super Mario mobile game builds December 9, 2016 With the release of its hotly anticipated Super Mario iPhone game slated for next week, Nintendo's shares have got a power-star boost. Shares surged as much as five per cent immediately following the announcement of the game's release to Apple's App Store on 15 December. Read more: Yes, really. Japan's Prime Minister dressed up as Super [...]
McDonald’s to move non-US tax base to UK December 8, 2016 As the Brexit vote prompts companies to accelerate in moving onto the continent, one corporate juggernaut is reversing through the drive-thru. Fast food icon McDonald’s today announced it would move its tax base from Luxembourg to the UK, after facing increased scrutiny from EU regulators. The news of a new international holding company based in Britain for [...]
Apple bought 9 startups in 2016. Here’s what they do December 8, 2016 Apple buys a lot of companies, but it doesn't talk much about them, making it hard to keep track. So we put together nine of its acquisitions reported this year. This list is not exhaustive, we know for sure some purchases have never been revealed. As expected, artificial intelligence companies remain the dominant category, but [...]
Sony wants to make the next Pokemon Go December 7, 2016 Sony is hoping to mimic the success of rival Nintendo’s Pokemon Go with its announcement of as many as six new smartphone games to be released next year. Starting in April 2017, Sony will release new games made for mobile phones, initially available in Japan and other Asian countries, said Tomoki Kawaguchi, executive director of [...]
It’s official: RIP Pebble watch December 7, 2016 The Pebble watch is dead. Demonstrating just how quickly and harshly the tide has turned in the world of wearables, the startup will no longer make its smartwatches after Fitbit confirmed it's buying up parts of the business. As first reported exclusively by City A.M., the deal means the end of the Pebble brand, which came to [...]
A major Apple supplier has US investment plans hot on the heels of SoftBank December 7, 2016 Foxconn, a major supplier of parts for Apple's iPhones, is following the lead of Softbank and is considering plans to invest in the US. President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that SoftBank, the Japanese company which snapped up UK tech firm Arm in a £24bn deal over the summer, will plough $50bn into the country and create 50,000 new jobs. [...]
Apple Music’s doubled its subscriber numbers in less than a year December 7, 2016 The number of people subscribing to Apple Music has doubled in just under a year. The tech company now boasts 20m music listeners signed up to its streaming service, according to Apple executive Eddy Cue. That's an additional three million since September when it last shared figures and 10m more than in January. Cue told Billboard magazine [...]
These are 2016’s top 100 influential leaders in fintech (part 2 of 4) December 7, 2016 City A.M. is publishing Hot Topics' top 100 fintech influential leaders list for 2016, supported by 360Leaders. This is part 2 of 4, in alphabetical order. Part 1 is here. For part 3 visit this link, and this is where you can view part 4. The most influential fintech leaders in 2016, E to J Eileen [...]
Revealed: The best places to work in the UK December 7, 2016 Businesses can breath a sigh of relief – the trend of trying to emulate Google's particular brand of work environment with bean bags, slides, hot desking and food freebies might just be over. The tech company has slipped out of the top 10 best places to work list for the first time, coming 13th in the annual ranking by [...]