Tablet searches boom as Brits buy for the sun July 21, 2013 ADIDAS, Converse shoes, dresses and garden furniture have become some of the most popular terms that consumers are browsing for online thanks to brighter weather and the help of three bank holidays. Data from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Google showed searches for DIY and gardening products outpaced other sectors on both tablets and [...]
New York Report: Apple is set to report in busy earnings week July 21, 2013 WALL Street is experiencing its best month since January and looks poised to extend the rally with a deluge of earnings this week, though significant gains may be harder to come by with major indexes at record highs. Eight Dow components and Apple are among the companies that will report in one of the busiest [...]
‘Appy days – App Store at 5 July 17, 2013 Alex Dymoke looks back at the five year history of Apple’s revolutionary online shop THE app was unleashed on the world with a typically smart advertising campaign from Apple. A niggling problem in your daily life? There is, they assured us, an app for that. “A what for what?” was the reaction from most people [...]
Review: The latest generation of MacBook Airs July 17, 2013 Apple has a new MacBook Air and it looks… just like the old one. But there is more going on than meets the eye. Here is the lowdown on how Apple just made the best laptop on the market even better, says Steve Dinneen. ■ Battery life | If this was the only change in [...]
Art lovers drive first-half sales to new record high at Christie’s July 16, 2013 A GROWING appetite for art has boosted revenues at auction house Christie’s, which said yesterday that global sales hit £2.4bn in the first six months of 2013, a record high for the third year in a row. Worldwide sales rose 13 per cent year-on-year in the first half of 2013, while private sales grew by [...]
Google pays $1.3bn for sat-nav app Waze June 14, 2013 GOOGLE has pipped both Apple and Facebook to buy Waze, an Israeli social mapping service popular amongst commuters. Waze, which has almost 50m members, uses a smartphone’s location data to improve its maps and create real-time traffic information, allowing drivers to take the fastest route to a destination. It is now expected that Google will [...]
Cheap money is fuelling the stock market’s dramatic bounce May 10, 2013 FOR the first time ever, the Dow Jones has closed above 15,000, in a major boost for investors everywhere. Remarkably, the index was at 14,000 just 66 days ago and is now up by 129 per cent since the 2009 trough, in a striking demonstration of the speed and scale of the bounce-back. With the [...]
UK tech prodigy makes millions by selling app March 29, 2013 A LONDON teenager has become one of Britain’s youngest millionaires after selling a popular smartphone app he developed at 15 to Yahoo. Nick D’Aloisio, 17, designed and built Summly, an iPhone app that condenses news articles for reading on the move after teaching himself to write computer code. Since its launch, the app has reached [...]
Bonuses bounce back on a smaller Wall Street February 26, 2013 WALL Street bonuses increased nine per cent to an average of $122,000 (£81,000) last year despite escalating job losses and at the same time as the Big Apple’s financial sector shrank overall, according to estimates released yesterday. The average bonus pool for employees employed in the securities industry in New York City surged some eight [...]
Apple settles app purchase case February 26, 2013 Apple has agreed to settle a US class action lawsuit that said customers were charged when their children inadvertently downloaded certain applications from the company’s online store. Under the proposed settlement, Apple could potentially end up paying around $100m as it has agreed to provide a $5 iTunes store credit to as many as 23m affected [...]