London Sports Festival moves from 3×3 basketball success to pickleball at the City of London Corporation’s Guildhall Yard
Two former City workers who built businesses out of the financial crisis September 29, 2013 Adam Taylor and Lexi Tamasan’s pet food subscription service is taking a sizeable bite out of a large market PET FOOD is not the first product most think about when founding a company. But when Adam Taylor saw his mother, who suffers from arthritis, struggling with a large bag of dog biscuits, it struck him [...]
Activist investor Icahn to push Apple’s Cook on share buyback program September 26, 2013 Activist investor Carl Icahn and Apple CEO Tim Cook are expected to meet on Monday, according to reports from CNBC. Icahn is expected to push the tech boss on further acceleration of the company's share buyback programme. Icahn reportedly has a $2bn stake in Apple (although that doesn't put him in Apple's top 10 stockholders). [...]
The new iPhones tested September 25, 2013 REVIEW Apple iPhone 5S Five Stars I’ve discovered a great litmus test for whether you should buy a gold iPhone or not. I dropped my review unit down the back of my seat at the theatre. After the performance, as everyone was filing out, I went back to look for it. An usher saw me [...]
Amazon unveils new Kindle Fire HDX tablets September 25, 2013 Amazon has unveiled two new Kindles. The Kindle Fire HDX includes a new feature which allows users to open an video chat with a tech-support to instruct the user how to operate the new device. Chief executive Jeff Bezos, speaking to reporters at Amazon headquarters in Seattle said of the new feature named the 'May Day [...]
BlackBerry’s still ripe for Monitise September 24, 2013 SOME would think it inauspicious to launch a new product less than 24 hours after the struggling platform on which it depends is sold for a rock-bottom price. But not the mobile payments firm Monitise, which proclaimed on the regulatory news service (RNS) yesterday that its peer-to-peer money transfer service is expanding its wares on [...]
Mobile pioneer Blackberry crumbles September 23, 2013 $4.7BN: PRICE AGREED LAST NIGHT FOR FALLEN GIANT $4.9BN: VALUE OF NEW iPHONES SOLD IN LAST 3 DAYS BLACKBERRY, the once-great pioneer of the mobile industry, said last night that it has agreed a tentative deal to be taken private for just $4.7bn (£2.9bn). The news came as rival Apple revealed record sales of its [...]
Bottom Line: Watsa’s bite of rotten fruit may be too big September 23, 2013 IT SHOULD have been obvious. Six weeks ago, as Blackberry launched a strategic review, Prem Watsa stepped down from the board. The Fairfax chief executive cited conflicts of interest, but said his investment firm had no intention of selling its shares. Yesterday he made good on that promise – and then some – offering $9 [...]
Microsoft unveils revamped Surface 2 following poor sales September 23, 2013 MICROSOFT yesterday unveiled faster, more powerful versions of its Surface tablet computer in an effort to boost poor sales of its flagship hardware product and mount a stronger challenge to Apple’s iPad. In a move criticised by many analysts, the company showed off the revamped devices that come less than a year after it brought [...]
Apple announces nine million iPhones sold in first week September 23, 2013 Apple has announced that it has sold nine million new iPhones since their Friday release (release). Apple also say that 200m users are now running the latest iteration of Apple's mobile operating system – iOS 7. “This is our best iPhone launch yet―more than nine million new iPhones sold―a new record for first weekend sales,” [...]
Blackberry pulls BBM app launch September 22, 2013 BLACKBERRY suffered yet another setback over the weekend with the launch of its mobile messaging platform BBM on rival iOS and Android platforms. The app was unceremoniously pulled from the respective online stores just hours after it launched yesterday morning. The company said 1.1m users had downloaded the app in the hours after it launched, [...]