Airlines and Apple hurt US – New York Report June 8, 2015 US STOCKS ended lower yesterday as investors worried about Greece and mulled the prospect of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates as early as September. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 82.91 points, or 0.46 per cent, to end at 17,766.55. The S&P 500 lost 13.55 points, or 0.65 per cent, to 2,079.28 and the [...]
The secrets to having a highly engaged team June 8, 2015 Use internal talent to train and don’t forget old-fashioned thank yous. Only A third of UK employees are highly engaged at work. That’s according to our recent report, Employee Engagement: How British business measures up. It also revealed that line managers are the key to how engaged staff are at work. We all know [...]
Apple Pay at WWDC 2015: Commuters will be able to touch in and out of public transport using iPhones June 8, 2015 Commuters in London will soon be able to pay for travel on public transport by touching their iPhones at the barriers, tech giant Apple has revealed. Transport for London's director of customer experience, Shashi Verma, said: "With around one in ten of all contactless transactions in the UK now taking place on our transport services [...]
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 [...]