Burberry chief executive Christopher Bailey’s pay sinks to £8m June 8, 2015 Burberry chief executive Christopher Bailey earned £7.9m last year, including a £1m salary, a £1.7m bonus and £424,000 in allowances and benefits, the company said today. The remuneration package of Bailey – who is notoriously shy of the financial media – was subject to a shareholder revolt at the company's annual general meeting last year, [...]
As Deutsche Bank share price jumps after bosses step down, can co-chief executives ever work? June 8, 2015 Shares in Deutsche Bank were up more than six per cent in early morning trading, after its two chief executives bowed to shareholder pressure and announced their resignations. Read more: Deutsche Bank bosses bow to pressure and quit Anshu Jain and Jurgen Fitschen had been the subject of shareholder unrest over the bank's strategy. In [...]
WWDC 2015: So what is Apple Cooking up now? June 7, 2015 Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference starts today, and it is a must watch for any fan of the brand It might be the shiny new gadgets and the “one last thing” moments that grab all the attention, but in terms of driving Apple forward, it is at the tech giant’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference [...]
Q&A: Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference June 7, 2015 WHAT IS WWDC? The conference is a high-profile gathering of people who build the Apple software that powers all its devices. It lasts a few days, but the attention is often on the opening keynote speech. WHO ATTENDS? Developers – the coders who build the apps and other software we all use on Apple devices. [...]
The fast lane: Spencer Ogden co-founder David Spencer-Percival talks medevacs, detoxes, the youth of today and why banks get a hard time June 7, 2015 It is unlikely that David Spencer-Percival, co-founder of Spencer Ogden, will be reading this any time soon. On Saturday, he and his wife embarked on a caffeine, alcohol and tech detox in an Ibizan forest. “I feel frazzled. Our offices are end-to-end in terms of timezones, so I just never stop. You have to have [...]
Rome: The Eternal City that Hollywood can’t leave alone June 7, 2015 The Eternal City has managed what the Russians never could: knock out 007. Daniel Craig was shaken and stirred as he was carried unconscious by a wailing ambulance to hospital when the Aston Martin DB 10 he was driving in a high speed chase around the Tiber river hit pot holes while filming Spectre, the [...]
Apple Pay UK summer launch date expected to be announced at WWDC June 7, 2015 iPhone users in the UK will soon be able to pay for things with just the tap of a smartphone, or Apple Watch, as Apple plans to launch its mobile wallet outside of the US market for the first time. Apple executives are expected to reveal plans for Apple Pay to come to the UK [...]
Google I/O 2015: From Projects Vault and Brillo to smart jeans and cardboard virtual reality, the impossibly advanced technologies unveiled in San Francisco June 3, 2015 BRILLO Essentially an operating system for the Internet of Things (IoT), Google’s Project Brillo is an adapted version of Android designed to manage a number of connected devices from a central management console. It’s Google’s attempt at standardising the way we control devices, from household appliances like Nest (which, incidentally, Google owns) to wearables [...]
Is there a role for leadership in flat organisations? June 3, 2015 Time-sensitive and strategic decisions are best left in expert hands. For some time now, companies like Google and online retailer Zappos have championed flat organisational structures – where authority is widely distributed, everyone works together in a large space, and employees are encouraged to collaborate. This has certainly transformed leadership and management styles, [...]
Apple issues global recall for Beats Pill XL due to fire safety risk, including UK June 3, 2015 Apple has issued a voluntary global recall of a Beats speaker range due to concerns overheating could cause a fire. Owners of Beats Pill XL in all five colours have been warned not to use the speakers and return them to Apple for a refund or credit. The speakers, worth £215, have been on sale since January [...]