Apple’s share price will soar predicts Goldman Sachs as it places it on “conviction” buy list because it’s no longer a hardware stock – it’s “Apple-as-service” November 18, 2015 Shares in Apple could hit dizzying new heights, says Goldman Sachs, which has added the superstar tech stock to its "conviction" buy list. Analysts said the market will increasingly see the California company as a source of recurring revenue rather than simply a transactional seller of one-off devices, citing TV, Music, and Pay, as a "significant multi-year opportunity" after the launch [...]
Sky Q: Seven features to tempt customers and everything you need to know – including release date and price November 18, 2015 TV viewing is no longer just a living room event. New devices – smartphones, tablets – and services – Netflix, Apple TV, YouTube – are changing the way we watch, and we do it wherever and whenever we can. Now, keen not to miss out, Sky has liberated its service from the gaze of the sofa, with Sky [...]
Sky Q: TV anywhere, anytime “fluid viewing” in biggest launch in years with new set top box offering 4K UHD, YouTube and third party content, recording and pausing across devices November 18, 2015 Sky has launched its biggest new product in years with Sky Q, a set top box and package which will offer customers the ability to watch TV anytime and anywhere. The new offer will bring on-demand viewing to multiple devices across the home and beyond, including third-parties such as YouTube and Vevo and video content from the [...]
Bond Street is the world’s fourth-most expensive shopping street, after sites in New York, Hong Kong and Paris November 18, 2015 Bond Street is the world’s fourth-most expensive shopping street, with rents of $1,321 (£868) a year per square foot. The northern blocks of New York’s Fifth Avenue, home to the jewellery store made famous in the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s along with Apple’s glass cube and Saks Fifth Avenue, top the chart with yearly rent of [...]
Where can I use Apple Pay in the UK? The A-Z of shops, restaurants and apps which will accept mobile payment with iPhone 6 and 6 Plus November 17, 2015 Apple launched its mobile payment service, Apple Pay, in the UK in its first mobile payment move beyond the US, capitalising on the boom in mobile and contactless payments among consumers. iPhone 6 and 6 Plus users can now pay with just the tap of a smartphone, or Apple Watch, across the high street and [...]
Where can I use Apple Pay? Tesco Bank and TSB customers can now use contactless mobile payment with iPhones 6, 6 Plus, 6s, 6s Plus and Apple Watch November 17, 2015 The roll out of Apple Pay continues, with UK banks TSB and Tesco Bank now supporting the contactless payment method which can be used with iPhone and Apple Watches. They bring the total number of banks to jump on board with Apple Pay to thirteen after it launched in July with most of the major banks involved. Barclays is [...]
Mobile market predictions: China to overtake US smartphone market by 2021, global data traffic soaring tenfold November 17, 2015 China is set to overtake the US in smartphone subscriptions by 2021, as global data traffic is poised to grow tenfold in the same time period. They may be ruining our sleep, but we still can’t get enough of our smartphones. There’s already 3.4bn in use around the world today, but they’re set to double [...]
Vote with your wallet: It’s time to turn shoppers into investors November 16, 2015 It frustrates me that consumers are so valued as shoppers, yet so underserved when it comes to putting money to work in other ways. From the moment we are born, we are marketed to thousands of times a day, “trained” as consumers through hundreds of billions of pounds in advertising, yet are left to our [...]
Steve Jobs review: Fassbender carries a poignant biopic of Apple’s dysfunctional tech messiah November 13, 2015 12A | ★★★★☆ You can’t code, you’re not a designer, you’re not a programmer,” says exasperated Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogan). “But every day I read that Steve Jobs is a genius. What do you actually do?” This is the billion-dollar question asked by Danny Boyle in his follow-up to the London 2012 Opening [...]
Apple closing down Beats Music after Apple Music’s success against rival Spotify November 13, 2015 Apple’s music-streaming service Beats Music is no more, muscled out by the newer and shinier Apple Music. The tech giant announced late last night that Beats Music would be shut down at the end of the month, just six months after Apple Music was launched on trial subscriptions. The new music service attracted 11m subscribers [...]