Blockbusters at the touch of a button October 26, 2011 NETFLIX, the US online film service, announced on Monday that it will be launching in the UK in 2012. The company looks set to change the way we watch movies, but already has some tough competition. Here we tell you everything you need to know. What is Netflix? Netflix is an online film service that [...]
Everything Everywhere says customer base stabilising October 26, 2011 Britain’s biggest mobile operator Everything Everywhere posted lower revenue in the third quarter due to regulatory cuts but said its customer base was stabilising while it was also making good progress in cost-cutting. The company, which runs T-Mobile and Orange brands in the UK, said its total customer base shrunk by 1.4 per cent to [...]
ARM boss Warren East plans to take over the world – one chip at a time October 25, 2011 Afew years ago a friend of mine tipped a little-known chip designer called ARM Holdings. He said it was going to be the next big thing. A year later, after its shares had shot up, he cursed his luck for not taking his own advice. But he prudently decided not to invest while it was [...]
Push into online streaming in the UK will not be the potion to cure giant’s ills October 24, 2011 IT HAS been a year of two halves for Netflix. It reached a share high of almost $300 in July after a meteoric rise. Last year it accounted for more web traffic than any other site on the internet (that it deals in bandwidth-heavy streaming only makes this marginally less impressive). But it decision to hike [...]
keep one eye on any move in the dax October 24, 2011 EQUITIES staged a strong rally towards the end of last week. The move took a number of stock indices back up through significant resistance levels. The FTSE 100 broke above its 100-day moving average, around the 5,500 mark, while the major US indices behaved with even greater bullish conviction. A few pieces of better-than-expected economic [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING October 24, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES ABN AMRO SEEKS NEW LIFE AS GLOBAL FORCE ABN Amro, the Dutch bank that has seen two of its three post-crisis owners collapse, is on a mission to re-emerge as a force in the sector and has promised to be a buyer of Eurozone financial assets that capital-stretched banks are preparing to sell. [...]
Well-run companies profit even in hard times October 23, 2011 YOU could be forgiven for not noticing, but it is earnings season again. Once you finish trawling through the endless speculation about the next phase of Eurozone debt crisis in the papers and on TV, you’ll eventually find some good old-fashioned company news reporting. Let me summarise. Well-run companies with good products are holding up [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING October 20, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES KKR BETS ON CHINA SLOWDOWN WITH HK EXPANSION Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is set to expand into Hong Kong in an early bet by the US private equity group on a slowdown in the Chinese economy. The buy-out group, which is among the largest in the world, is planning to expand into Hong Kong [...]
LG Display sees a record loss October 20, 2011 SOUTH Korean flat-screen maker LG Display, a key supplier to Apple, posted its biggest quarterly loss yesterday as tepid demand for televisions and computers hit panel prices and one-off losses weighed. LG Display, which vies with home rival Samsung Electronics for the top position in LCD flat screens globally, reported a quarterly loss of £275m, [...]
Finding a place for a new arrival October 20, 2011 BUYING a baby-friendly property is just one of hundreds of things soon-to-be mums have to consider before they give birth. It’s no easy task considering you haven’t yet met your bundle of joy and you’re not exactly feeling top notch carrying them around. If you’re looking to buy a home for your new family to [...]