Boost for Apple as its website in China runs out of new iPhone 5s September 17, 2013 APPLE’S share price yesterday rose for the first time since its unveiling of new iPhones underwhelmed investors and analysts last week. Shares in the Cupertino-based company were lifted 1.16 per cent to $455.32 at the close of trading last night, as a high number of reservations on Apple’s Chinese website for the new iPhone 5s [...]
Bottom Line: Not much room at the bottom September 17, 2013 IF APPLE doesn’t want to chase the low end of the market, there are others who do. In America, Intel has announced its chips will be inside US tablets selling below $99 by Christmas. In the UK, step forward Tesco. Next Monday’s launch is widely anticipated to reveal a Tesco tablet cheap enough to consider [...]
Royalty growth remains strong for Imagination September 17, 2013 IMAGINATION Technologies, the British graphics and microprocessor maker that counts Apple among its customers, said yesterday that its outlook for licensing revenue and royalty growth remain strong for the year. The company reaffirmed their guidance of £30m to £35m in licensing revenue, excluding the MIPS business that it acquired last year for $100m (£62.8m). “Our [...]
Restaurant review: 1701 September 17, 2013 RESTAURANT Bevis Marks Synagogue, EC3A 5DQ Tel: 020 7621 1701 FOOD Four stars VALUE Three stars ATMOSPHERE Four stars Cost for two with matched wine: £115 I GOT back from my holiday last week to another of life’s crushing milestones: I can no longer fit into my work suit. It’s all downhill from here. And [...]
Apple stock rebounds as Chinese stocks of new iPhones sell out September 17, 2013 Apple's Chinese website shows all pre orders of their 5C and 5S devices have sold out (a translation of their Chinese site here), but there's still no word on what total pre orders are at. That's unusual from Apple. Typically, they'll announce pre order numbers shortly after they launch. Those pre orders begun shortly after [...]
Business of the year September 16, 2013 There’s been some really first-rate performances from some of the nation’s kargest and best known companies this year, making choosing a winner exceptionally hard. The most surprising entrant perhaps is Ocado, since many in the City had written the internet grocer off after its share listing. Thomas Cook is in there because in 2013 it [...]
Lib Dems look to up tax on cider with reclassification September 16, 2013 One of the more bizarre recommendations from the Liberal Democrat party conference comes in the form of a push to redefine cider, revealed in notes first published by City A.M.. We want to alter the definition of cider for duty purposes to exclude the mass-produced, lower quality products from the beneficial low duty rates (compared [...]
Lib Dem lines to take for interviews – in full September 16, 2013 The Lib Dems appear to have given journalists their full lines to take for every interview: Five things to remember for every interview This conference sees the party in a confident mood We have a strong record of achievement in Government Our priorities are jobs and easing the squeeze on household budgets Labour cannot be [...]
What the other papers say this morning – 13 September 2013 September 12, 2013 FINANCIAL TIMES Cameron crackdown on music piracy David Cameron has appointed a former music industry executive as his adviser on intellectual property, setting the stage for a government crackdown on copyright infringement. Mike Weatherley, MP for Hove and Portslade and former finance director for Pete Waterman’s entertainment businesses, will take on the newly created role [...]
Vodafone UK chief leaving for top job at Canadian network September 12, 2013 VODAFONE UK chief executive, Guy Laurence, stood down yesterday with immediate effect to become chief executive of Rogers Communications, Canada’s largest mobile network. Laurence – who has held Vodafone UK’s top job since 2008 – will be succeeded by Jeroen Hoencamp, former chief executive of Vodafone Ireland. In a note to staff earlier today, Vodafone [...]