Apple falls as Android leads smartphone sales December 22, 2011 APPLE’s crop is suffering in Europe due to increased competition and the troubled economy as Android nabs the top spot in the smartphone market, the researcher Kantar Worldpanel ComTech has revealed. While the iPhone 4S has been flying off British and American shelves, customers in continental Europe have been less enthralled by the company’s latest [...]
Long Run has to be the call in the King George December 22, 2011 KAUTO Star, the nation’s favourite racehorse, has the opportunity to make history at Kempton Park on Boxing Day in the William Hill King George VI Chase. Clive Smith’s brilliant chaser has won this famous race four times, exactly the same as Desert Orchid, and a fifth win on Monday would spark wild celebrations at the [...]
Krona and krone won’t be safe-haven kings December 20, 2011 ALONG with Apple’s shares plummeting 50 per cent in value, Australia’s looming recession and wheat doubling in price, in its self-styled outrageous predictions for 2012, Saxo Bank speculates that Sweden and Norway could replace Switzerland as the safe haven currencies of choice. But could Sweden’s krona or Norway’s krone really become the security blankets for [...]
BT sues Google in US patent court December 19, 2011 Telecoms firm BT has launched legal action against Google in the US over patent infringement in a number of key areas for the technology group such as mobile map services. BT said yesterday that it had filed a claim relating to six patents which BT says are infringed by such services as Android, Google Maps, [...]
Saudi prince buys $300m Twitter stake December 19, 2011 SAUDI Prince Alwaleed has bought a $300m (£193m) stake in social networking company Twitter, leading to speculation that the micro-blogging site is inching closer to a public offering. However, it has been revealed that this transaction will not affect Twitter’s bank balance, as the shares were bought in a secondary purchase from existing stakeholders and [...]
Nokia looks to launch another handset a month after Lumia December 15, 2011 NOKIA is preparing to launch a follow-up to its make-or-break Lumia 800 handset, less than a month after its launch, City A.M. has learned. The new smartphone, which may be called the Lumia 900, will be built into the same chassis as its predecessor but will feature a bigger screen and may be loaded with [...]
Don’t lock the world out of London: New rules send the City back to the dark ages December 15, 2011 THERE is a well-used phrase in management, that it is better to make a wrong decision than none at all. The exception must be Mark Makepeace, chief executive of the FTSE Group, who this week ruled all listings in London from next month must have a 25 per cent free float In enforcing this, he [...]
Nokia’s Lumia has made me see it in a new light December 15, 2011 I HAVEN’T always been Nokia’s biggest fan. Earlier this year I might have said its tie-up with Microsoft was not so much a case of rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic as sending a diving team to the bottom of the ocean to drape bunting over its rusting shell. I might have said it was duller [...]
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WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING December 13, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES PEPSICO SIGNALS RENEWED FOCUS ON CORE INDULGENT BRANDS PepsiCo, the US drinks and snacks company, has signalled that it will renew its focus on its core “indulgent” brands. The move marks a shift in strategy after mounting criticism from investors that it had invested too much in less profitable health products. SIX FORMER [...]