London Sports Festival moves from 3×3 basketball success to pickleball at the City of London Corporation’s Guildhall Yard
Blackberry ripe for the picking as it considers sale August 12, 2013 STRUGGLING smartphone maker BlackBerry yesterday opened the door to a multi billion dollar sale of the company as it unveiled a dealmaking committee tasked with reviving the group’s flagging fortunes. The Canadian firm, famed for its email-friendly phones and formerly known as Research In Motion, said US M&A guru Tim Dattels would head an executive [...]
New York Report: BlackBerry and Apple keep US stocks sweet August 12, 2013 THE DOW and the S&P 500 indexes dipped slightly yesterday, extending losses from Wall Street’s worst week since June last week, but Apple and BlackBerry kept the Nasdaq index afloat. Trading volume was light, marking one of the five days this year with fewer than 5bn shares traded over a full session. Many traders are [...]
BlackBerry to explore strategic options – including a possible sale August 12, 2013 BlackBerry has said announced that its board has formed a special committee to explore its strategic alternatives to enhance value and increase scale – including the possibility of a sale (release). Rumours that the phone company was to go private have been circulating for month, and shares jumped last week after sources reportedly said the [...]
Tech blogs names 10 September as date for new iPhone unveiling August 11, 2013 APPLE, the world’s largest technology company, is expected to present its redesigned iPhone in September, according to technology blog AllThingsD. The blog cited unnamed sources as saying that Apple will unveil its next smartphone at a special event on 10 September. The California-based company was not immediately available for comment last night. Apple’s iPhone launches [...]
Keep busy when the sun goes away August 7, 2013 Summer is rubbish for technology releases. Screens don’t work very well outside, and everyone is too busy lounging on the beach or frolicking in fields to appreciate them, anyway. Thankfully we’ve only got a few weeks more before we’ll be holed up in our freezing flats, shivering and pretending the outside world doesn’t exist. And [...]
Review: Ametsa with Arzak Instruction August 6, 2013 The Halkin Hotel, Belgravia, SW1X 7DJ Tel: 020 7333 1234 FOOD Four stars VALUE Three stars ATMOSPHERE One star Cost per person for tasting menu and matched wine: £145 Ametsa With Arzak Instruction; there’s a restaurant that’s just begging to be hated. It’s the first fine-dining export from the Arzak family (the current iteration being [...]
South Koreans concerned over Samsung ruling August 5, 2013 THE SOUTH Korean government yesterday expressed concerns about the decision by the United States to overrule a sales ban of some Apple models. The Obama administration vetoed a US trade panel’s ban on the import and sale of some older iPhones and iPads, reversing a ruling that had favoured South Korea’s Samsung Electronics over Apple [...]
New York Report: Slow day on Wall Street as shares decline August 5, 2013 THE DOW and the S&P 500 dipped yesterday in the thinnest volume so far this year, following their record closing highs last week as a lack of major news left the market directionless. Although about 100 companies in the S&P 500 are still scheduled to report earnings, the season is winding down sharply after last [...]
What the other papers say this morning – 5 August 2013 August 4, 2013 FINANCIAL TIMES Lloyds boss targets profit for dividend Antonio Horta-Osorio, chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group, has said he aims to start paying out up to 70 per cent of the bank’s earnings in dividends within three years as he seeks to attract investors ahead of the sale of the government’s stake. Lloyds has not [...]
Obama reverses import ban on Apple products August 4, 2013 THE Obama administration has overturned a US trade panel’s ban on the sale of some older iPhones and iPads, reversing a ruling that had favoured Samsung Electronics over Apple in their long-running patent battles. The US International Trade Commission in June banned the import or sale of the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 3G and [...]