Profits fall at Samsung as TV sales drag July 7, 2011 PROFIT at Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest maker of memory chips and televisions, fell by a quarter as weak earnings at its flat screen unit dragged, underlying the conglomerate’s struggle to return to last year’s record profit. A bleak outlook for computers and TVs and a wobbly global economy is overshadowing robust sales of Samsung’s [...]
Want to enjoy work? Become the office Elvis July 5, 2011 OVER 60 per cent of people admit that they are not engaged at work, according to a Towers Perrin/Gallup poll. Chris Barez-Brown, a career coach, says this need not be the way. All the bored and frustrated need to do to bring office work to life is “Up their Elvis.” “When Bono, the U2 star, [...]
HACKERS TAKE A BITE OUT OF APPLE July 4, 2011 The Internet vigilante group Anonymous claimed to have broken into an Apple server and published a small number of usernames and passwords for one of Apple’s websites. Anonymous said on Twitter that Apple could be a target and released the data as part of its Anti Security campaign. Apple, led by Steve Jobs (pictured), did [...]
THE RISE OF ST PANCRAS: WHERE TO EAT AND DRINK July 4, 2011 GILBERT SCOTT BAR London’s rise as a cocktail destination is everywhere apparent: and no more so than in the opening of brilliant restaurant bars that are destinations in themselves. The Gilbert Scott has one of these: it’s airy and antique, with buttery popcorn served in pewter chalices as a free snack, and cocktails from ages [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS July 4, 2011 EXQUISITE CHAMPAGNE FEAST AT THE LANGHAM HOTEL: TONIGHT What are you doing ce soir? If you’ve got a bit of cash burning a hole in your pocket and you consider yourself a foodie (who likes champagne), you should be at the Langham Hotel’s “Evening with Roux” dinner at its fine dining restaurant, the Landau. Michel Roux [...]
Coming soon: the Fearne Cotton app July 3, 2011 Festivals ain’t what they used to be. Back in the day, your parents would smear their naked bodies with healing mud and take so much acid their eyes melted. Now, in a resounding victory for progress, people can huddle in their tents, feverishly watching the events on the blinking screen of an iPhone. Even in [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING June 30, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES MAD MEN PARENT EYES STARDOM The dapper, hard-drinking, advertising executives of Mad Men made the show one of the big television hits of recent years. Now Mad Men’s parent company is vying to be a star on the stock market. Shares in AMC Networks will begin regular trading on the Nasdaq today, following [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING June 27, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES MICROSOFT LAUNCHES CLOUD OFFICE Microsoft is set to place one of its biggest bets yet on cloud computing with the launch of Office 365, an online version of its most widely used business software. The software company’s belated push online with one of its core businesses comes more than four years after Google [...]
Wolfson sees shares plunge after warning June 27, 2011 WOLFSON Microelectronics, the Scottish chipmaker, yesterday scaled back its forecast for 2011 after its customers delayed the launch of new gadgets and sold fewer-than-expected smartphones and tablets. The warning sent shares in the Edinburgh-based company plummeting. They closed down 26 per cent at 175p, making it the biggest faller in the FTSE indices. The downgrade [...]
Chipmaker fails to cash in on iPad boom June 27, 2011 WOLFSON Microelectronics is the government’s idea of a perfect British business. It is a manufacturer; it is high-tech; it is based in Scotland; and it was spun out of the University of Edinburgh. A business in the regions that actually makes stuff, all the while demonstrating the success of Britain’s education system. A great photo [...]