Millions of Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft email accounts sold to Russian underworld May 4, 2016 Over 270m email accounts have been hacked and sold to Russian underworld, a security expert has claimed. While a majority of stolen usernames and passwords belonged to popular Russian email service Mail.ru, credentials for some of the world's biggest email providers were also compromised. Of the 272.3m stolen accounts, nearly 40m addresses belonged to Yahoo, [...]
I would trust Google’s DeepMind with my personal data more than the NHS May 4, 2016 The NHS is not a data company. Google's pretty good with that kind of thing. No wonder, then that the millions of pieces of information the health service has amassed about the nation's wellbeing – from admission times to blood tests – is being shared with the company in pursuit of the shared and very human [...]
Time Warner picks up a boost from HBO’s Game of Thrones and Turner Broadcasting, sending the share price higher May 4, 2016 US media giant Time Warner, which counts channels HBO and CNN as assets, has posted slightly better-than-expected revenue figures for the first quarter, up 2.5 per cent year-on-year. Time Warner's cable channel Home Box Office (HBO), that last month began airing the latest instalment of the popular Game of Thrones series, and its Turner Broadcasting unit both pulled [...]
Paddy Power Betfair lost big at the Cheltenham Festival but posts healthy growth in first quarter financial results May 4, 2016 Newly-merged Paddy Power Betfair's share price has fallen over three per cent after the company posted its first quarter revenues this morning, as the company was hit by "adverse" sales results following a harrowing Cheltenham festival. The figures Paddy Power Betfair's revenues were up 16 per cent to £339m across all four of the company's divisions: online, [...]
Adobe acquires audience engagement innovator Livefyre as part of its Adobe Marketing Cloud services May 3, 2016 US software giant Adobe has announced it is buying the content curation and audience engagement innovator Livefyre for an undisclosed sum. The Livefyre platform gives brands and publishers instant access to user-generated content that can be streamed in real time to websites, adverts, emails, apps and TV, and is also well-known for its online commenting [...]
Pfizer beats expectations in its first quarter, the share price climbs in pre-market trading May 3, 2016 US drug giant Pfizer has beaten expectations for revenue and earnings in the first quarter of 2016. The Viagra drug maker has posted revenue of $13.01bn (£8.87bn) ahead of expectations of $12.02bn and up from $10.86bn last year. Earnings came in at $0.67 per share, compared to estimates of $0.55, according to a Reuters analyst poll. The 19.7 per cent rise in [...]
City Moves for 3 May 2016 | Who’s switching jobs May 3, 2016 TP Bennett TP Bennett has added to its architectural team with a new senior director appointment. Neil Sterling joins as director to further strengthen the architectural team’s position in the commercial office, residential and retail markets. With over 16 years’ experience of front-end design and hands-on delivery, Neil’s previous role was at 3DReid, where he [...]
Post room boom: Workplaces are being overrun by packages delivered to employees, research by Barclaycard shows May 3, 2016 Offices are being overrun by packages delivered to employees, according to new research from Barclaycard. Company post rooms are likely to suffer from a deluge of mail this week as 17.1m British shoppers anticipate spending more than usual online over the Bank Holiday weekend. Over half, 58 per cent, of Londoners now regularly use their work address [...]
This exceptional house has come up for sale by The Solent with its own jetty and waterside cabin April 25, 2016 Calling all sailors to one of the most exceptional contemporary homes on the market, on one of the most sought after roads overlooking The Solent. River House is a remarkably modern home with lots of flexible space and promising outbuildings in the popular harbour village of Itchenor. And it’s only an hour and half away [...]
“Less is more”: Is this the real reason the Bank of England hasn’t hiked interest rates? April 25, 2016 Have we all just been given an unusually candid insight into the mindset of the Bank of England's notoriously dovish monetary policy committee? An economist at the Bank has revealed that it has been offering its employees trendy mindfulness courses – and its mantra is "less is more". Is it a coincidence Mark Carney hasn't raised rates for almost three years? The [...]