Fitbug share price jumps 67 per cent on Jawbone deal January 29, 2015 Fitbug's share price jumped higher today, after the company's digital weight-loss programme was chosen for a new marketplace by another wearable device maker Jawbone. Shares in the Aim-listed company, which makes wearable fitness trackers, jumped as much as 68 per cent to nine pence in late afternoon trade. Jawbone marketplace will offer Fitbug's Slim + Trim [...]
2015 ticks off to a good start January 28, 2015 Richemont’s finest came to SIHH with some horological humdingers Wandering the lofty, beige halls of the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) inside Geneva Airport’s cavernous Palexpo complex – “probably the most luxurious trade fair in the world” – the seeming neutrality of its colour-scheme belies the horological hierarchy at play here. Unlike the [...]
Fifa could lose up to £50m as three sponsors sever ties January 23, 2015 Three sponsors of Fifa during the 2014 World Cup have decided against renewing their contracts with football’s under-fire governing body. Castrol, Continental Tyres and Johnson & Johnson have followed the lead of Sony and Emirates in cutting ties with the organisation by not renewing their deals. As “second tier” World Cup sponsors, each [...]
11 of the world’s 100 most sustainable companies are in the UK: Marks & Spencer, BT, and the London Stock Exchange January 22, 2015 The UK is home to 11 of the world's 100 most sustainable companies with Marks & Spencer, BT, and the London Stock Exchange all making it into the prestigious ranking. The other UK-based companies listed were Reckitt Benckiser, Centrica, Unilever, British Land, Sky, Pearson, BG Group and Electrocomponents. Each year media company Corporate Knights produces the ranking which measures companies' sustainability in terms [...]
BlackBerry share price falls back after it denies Samsung takeover talk January 14, 2015 Telecoms firm BlackBerry sent its shares back down by more than 16 per cent in after hours trading last night, after denying that it had engaged in talks with Samsung about a multi-billion dollar buyout. Reuters reported last night that smartphone manufacturer Samsung had sent high level executives to meet with BlackBerry equivalents last week [...]
CES 2015: Still the biggest tech show on earth – Bottom Line January 8, 2015 As the global tech industry packs its bags and leaves the neon lights of Las Vegas behind for another year, is the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest tech convention, still relevant? On one hand, CES boasts that this year it had more than 3,500 tech exhibitors and over 160,000 attendees. The organisers have [...]
Samsung forecasts first annual profit drop in three years January 8, 2015 The world's biggest electronic company Samsung as predicted its first annual profit drop since 2011. The South Korean smartphone maker forecast operating profit of 5.2 trillion Korean won (£3bn) for the three months to December, down from 8.3 trillion won a year earlier. Despite this it beat an earlier estimate of 5 trillion won from [...]
Fitbug starts to flex its muscles January 7, 2015 The founder of the British fitness tracking group tells Oliver Smith in Las Vegas that he is already thinking about the next big thing PAUL Landau has had an interesting six months. In July he was the founder of a wearable fitness tracker firm whose share price had hovered around 1p for over two years, [...]
CES 2015: The good, the bad and the ugly – from QuitBit’s novelty lighter to Sony’s Walkman reboot January 7, 2015 The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is in full swing and the gadgets on display are as wacky as ever. Here are a selection of our favourites so far… Sony's tiny Action Cam FDR-X1000V SONY FDR-X100V CAMCORDER £TBC sony.co.uk Usefulness: ★★★★☆ Novelty value: ★★★☆☆ Sony is pulling out all the stops to make up [...]
CES 2015: The internet of things is coming soon says Samsung’s UK boss Andy Griffiths January 6, 2015 Samsung’s UK boss tells Oliver Smith in Las Vegas that self-controlling central heating and self-parking cars are around the corner Will internet-connected devices change your life over the next five years? Samsung, along with most of the other tech giants in the convention halls of Las Vegas where the global tech industry has amassed this [...]