2014 Christmas gift ideas: Must-have gadgets from Bose speakers to Dyson fans and the iPhone 6 Plus December 2, 2014 Our pick of the must-have gadgets this festive season. Bose SoundTouch 20 Excellent sound quality and an easy-to-navigate app makes this wireless speaker system – now with Spotify connectivity – one of the best on the market. £349.95 currys.co.uk iPhone 6 Plus Love your iPhone but wish it were a few sizes bigger? [...]
Intelligent Energy boss Henri Winand cheery in face of dismal numbers December 1, 2014 Despite the company’s numbers showing a decidedly downward trend, Intelligent Energy chief executive Henri Winand remains very positive on the future of the business. The energy technology firm yesterday posted its preliminary full-year results, the first Intelligent Energy has published since floating on the main market in July. They revealed a £7m decline in revenue [...]
Dow falls on weak figures – New York Report December 1, 2014 US STOCKS fell in a broad decline yesterday, with the S&P 500 suffering its biggest one-day drop in more than a month, as economic data indicated weakness across the globe and the holiday shopping season got off to a tepid start. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 51.44 points, or 0.29 per cent, to 17,776.9, [...]
$35bn got wiped off Apple’s value today and no one knows why December 1, 2014 Apple shares experienced their largest fall in three months during one minute this morning, with a huge, mysterious spike in volume. Shares opened at $118.80 at 9.30am EST, before suddenly experiencing a one-minute rush at 9.51am, with 6.7 million shares traded. During that minute, shares lost more than three per cent, and eventually fell as [...]
FaceTime with your bank? Barclays is venturing into video banking for busy customers in major online move November 30, 2014 Barclays is making another major move into digital with the launch of a video banking service that will let customers speak face to face with advisers instead of visiting a bricks and mortar branch. The bank will offer a round the clock service to better fit in with people’s lives in what it says is [...]
Apple’s $700bn smash, Black Friday misery: 10 things we learned this week November 28, 2014 1. In the future, cats will change colour when they go near radiation (maybe). Someone’s already written a nursery rhyme about it 2. Londoners take “painting the town red” rather more literally than you might think: by a vast majority, they prefer red wine to any other type, reckons Naked Wines 3. Aviva [...]
John Lewis Black Friday deals: Record breaking online sales predicted with iPad, Macbook and Beats deals on offer November 28, 2014 High street favourite John Lewis is predicting a record breaking day of online sales as web traffic jumped in the first six hours of Black Friday trading. The John Lewis website struggled with the volume of visitors with some customers reporting error pages when looking for deals, however web traffic between midnight and 6am was [...]
A bright new day for Monitise as new backers Santander, Telefonica and MasterCard join November 27, 2014 Monitise co-chief executive and founder Alastair Lukies felt vindicated yesterday after announcing three business giants had backed his mobile money business with a £49.2m investment and would all look to expand their commercial relationships with the company. And although no firm contracts were announced between Monitise and its partners, City A.M. understands that there could [...]
It doesn’t get more central than The Beecham in Covent Garden November 27, 2014 Covent Garden, that stretch of meandering streets off The Strand that culminates in the famous piazza, has been through every stage of London life. It started out, as many of the City’s suburbs did, as countryside, serving as gardens for Westminster Abbey. Then came its first gentrification phase when Henry VIII seized the land [...]
Tech helps S&P and Dow to hit new records – New York Report November 26, 2014 US STOCKS rose yesterday, boosted by tech shares, with the S&P 500 and Dow industrials closing at records. However, the energy sector was once more the largest weight on the market as crude prices continued to flirt with multi-year lows. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 12.81 points, or 0.07 per cent, to 17,827.75, the [...]