Apple dethrones Coca-Cola as the world’s most valuable brand September 30, 2013 APPLE and Google have unseated Coca-Cola as the number one global brand, according to a report yesterday from consultancy Interbrand into the top 100 global brands. Computer giant Apple had a brand valuation of $98.3bn in 2013, moving the company from the second spot in 2012 to the top of the list this year. “Every [...]
Windows passes BlackBerry in European phone market share September 30, 2013 WINDOWS Phone has overtaken BlackBerry to become the third most popular smartphone platform across Europe’s five largest markets, including the UK, data from Kantar Worldpanel showed yesterday. In the UK Windows Phone captured 12 per cent of smartphone market share in the three months ending August 2013, up from 4.5 per cent in the same [...]
Cook says humans are most important part of Apple turnover recipe September 30, 2013 Apple boss Tim Cook has given employees of the tech giant bonus leave, so that they can have the whole Thanksgiving week off. His letter to staff is below, and recognises that "our most important resource — our soul — is our people." Team- It’s been an exciting summer. For the first time, we’ve launched [...]
Windows phones overtake Blackberry as UK’s third largest platform September 30, 2013 Windows based phone sales accounted for 12 per cent of units in the UK in the three months to August, and in the past year has surged past rival Blackberry to become the third largest platform by sales. New figures from the Kantar Worldpanel ComTech show that Windows has posted its highest ever sales share [...]
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 [...]