Apple reaches a new self-driving car milestone in its first road accident September 2, 2018 A test vehicle from Apple's self-driving car programme was involved in a road accident near its Silicon Valley headquarters last month, making Apple the latest tech giant to join a recent spate of autonomous driving incidents. One of Apple's Lexus RX 450h self-driving vehicles was preparing to join a motorway in Sunnyvale on 24 August when it [...]
Uber secures six month extension for Brighton licence as council monitors outcome of London row November 2, 2017 Brighton has renewed Uber’s licence to operate for another six months as it awaits the outcome of the firm’s battle to keep hold of its licence in the capital. In a statement, Brighton and Hove City Council announced the decision today after a meeting earlier in the day. Read more: Uber has hired a City [...]
The US government shutdown drags on, but London never closes for business January 24, 2019 As the longest government shutdown in US history rumbles on – sparked by Donald Trump’s insistence to build a border wall that Democrats in Congress have refused to grant funding for – Wall Street and Silicon Valley have been left in serious IPO limbo. Staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have not worked [...]
Perched at the top of Courchevel 1850, the ski resort of L’Apogee boasts Michelin stars, Himalayan salt saunas and five-star skiing March 4, 2019 It’s time to join the Russian oligarchs and ladies-who-lunch (on €250 truffle risotto) in the French Alps’ most-exclusive resort, Courchevel. This is a long weekend skiing done right – hundreds of kilometres of piste, ski-in-ski-out hotel accommodation and beyond-5-star luxury in the snow-clad epicentre of 5-star luxury. The stay: Perched at the top of Courchevel [...]
Alphabet just backed Lyft, a US rival to Uber, in a $1bn funding round October 19, 2017 Alphabet has led a $1bn investment in ride-hailing app Lyft, even though it’s also an investor in its rival Uber. The massive fundraising comes from the tech giant’s growth investment fund CapitalG and the fresh cash puts Lyft’s valuation at $11bn. Google Ventures was an early backer of Uber. Read more: SoftBank IS interested in [...]
Just Eat boss quits in unexpected resignation January 21, 2019 Just Eat chief executive Peter Plumb is to step down from his role at the British takeaway ordering website with immediate effect, the firm revealed this morning. In an unexpected announcement Just Eat said that Plumb is to be replaced after 16 months at the helm on an interim basis by current chief customer officer Peter Duffy [...]
Uber hack: The UK’s top cyber crime and data authorities – the NCSC, NCA and ICO – are investigating the massive data breach November 22, 2017 UK authorities have launched an investigation into the massive hack of Uber which left the data of 50m customers vulnerable. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched a probe of the incident which it said raises “huge concerns” when it comes to ethics and data privacy. And GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) will be [...]
Jeremy Corbyn wants Uber to be replaced with a co-operative and workplace robots to be owned by workers October 14, 2017 Jeremy Corbyn has said the next Labour government could push for so-called gig economy firms like Uber to be run as co-operatives and put robots in the hands of workers. Speaking at the Co-operative Party Conference in London today, the Labour leader said technology had led to a more “rapacious and exploitative form of capitalism”. [...]
Taxi firm Addison Lee loses appeal against drivers earning national minimum wage and holiday pay November 14, 2018 Taxi firm Addison Lee lost its appeal against an employment tribunal decision today, which found that drivers were not self-employed contractors running their own businesses but in fact employees of the taxi company. The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) upheld the Employment Tribunal’s September 2017 ruling that drivers were entitled to receive the national minimum wage [...]
What Anthony Scaramucci did next March 4, 2019 After a brief and calamitous stint in the White House catapulted him to international fame, Anthony Scaramucci is back at SkyBridge Capital, the hedge fund he founded in 2005, he has revealed in an interview with Opto magazine. For a brief period in July 2017, Anthony Scaramucci found himself at the centre of American politics. [...]