WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING September 27, 2009 THE SUNDAYSThe Sunday TelegraphFSA TOLD TO CLEAN UP OIL MARKETSThe Financial Services Authority has been told to examine its statutes to ensure it can prosecute oil speculators practising market abuse. The financial watchdog must also consider bringing in stronger measures to detect speculators using techniques such as phone-tapping, as well as ensuring they have enough [...]
RIM earnings fall as it trims its forecasts September 24, 2009 BLACKBERRY maker Research In Motion said yesterday that profits had dropped as it gave an outlook short of analyst forecasts heading into the holiday shopping season. RIM said its quarterly profit dropped 3.5 per cent and that it added only 3.8m new subscribers, at the low end of the forecast it had provided in June.That [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING September 24, 2009 FINANCIAL TIMES DNO AIMS TO SAVE KURDISH VENTUREShares in DNO International, the Norwegian oil company, plunged more than 45 per cent on Thursday as trading resumed in the stock for the first time since Kurdish authorities threatened to cancel its licence to export oil from Iraq. Helge Eide, chief executive of DNO, told the Financial [...]
Smartphone app developers are striking gold September 24, 2009 GOLD Rush. It’s not a phrase you hear much these days, but that’s how research firm Yankee described the market for smartphone apps earlier this week. Its analysts estimate that the US market will be worth some $4.2bn (£2.6bn) by the end of 2013 – over 10 times higher than the $343m it is expected [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING September 23, 2009 FINANCIAL TIMES SIEMENS IN BRIBERY ULTIMATUMSiemens yesterday told several former executive board members, including former chief executives Heinrich von Pierer and Klaus Kleinfeld, to agree to pay damages relating to a multibillion euro bribery scandal. The firm, Europe’s largest engineering group, said seven former managers would face legal action if they failed to show willingness [...]
A Tudor folly with five floors, a great local and superlative views September 20, 2009 FRESTON Tower is located on the River Orwell near Ipswich – from its rooftop you can see the cargo ships approaching from miles off, making their leisurely way to and from the dramatic Orwell Bridge. The tower was built in 1578 by a wealthy Ipswich merchant called Thomas Gooding, though the exact reason for its [...]
How to wear the 80s to work September 17, 2009 LONDON FashionWeek begins today and with it, the unofficial start to autumn and autumnal dressing.Yes, the catwalks will be full of next season’s spring/summer clothes, but they can still serve as an inspiration for making sure you’ve got all your clothes in place for the next few months. Harriet Apple, a designer and graduate of [...]
Why household cleaners are the hidden brands September 15, 2009 WITH so many people now living on social networks, the big topic in the marketing world these days is how you promote your brands directly into people’s online lives – and how you measure the “buzz”. There are “spiders” that crawl all over the web looking for references to products and services in the huge [...]
FEAST ON THE BRIDGE September 13, 2009 Southwark Bridge was transformed into a giant dining space on Saturday, as part of the Mayor’s Thames Festival. Instead of traffic, the public were treated to Feast on the Bridge, which aimed to reconnect them with the seasonality of food and enjoy a meal together. The medieval feast theme meant that festival-goers also enjoyed dance, [...]
As the runt of the mobile litter, 3 will not survive September 10, 2009 AND then there were three. Or at least there will be, because Hutchison Whampoa’s 3 will find it extremely tough to survive following the merger of T-Mobile and Orange in the UK. That would leave what analysts are dubbing “T-Orange”, with a 37 per cent share of mobile revenues in the UK, O2 with 27 [...]