Angry Birds leads iPhone app boom as boss gets paid $376m January 9, 2012 FACEBOOK and the Angry Birds game were the most downloaded apps of 2011, Apple revealed yesterday, and the remaining eight of the top 10 were all games. Early last month Apple said its 2011 app downloads had smashed through the 100m mark. The technology giant’s chief executive Tim Cook received almost $1m (£646,700) in cash [...]
Money and brains inspire business beyond borders February 5, 2012 TRADE across borders – natural and man-made – binds humanity together: “When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will”, surmised the French economist Frédéric Bastiat. Trade enriches us, both in our standard of living and in the variety of our cultural experiences. And it makes others better off too, as if lead by an invisible [...]
Firms pledge school links May 20, 2012 BUSINESSES are backing a campaign to get more young people into work, it was announced today. Firms including Marks and Spencer, Deloitte and Nestle are joining the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development to build links with schools and colleges, and provide more opportunities for vocational education and training. “We also to move beyond constant [...]
How to enjoy the sun while it lasts August 16, 2012 Film 4 Summer Screen Somerset House £10; Until 25 August Set in the jaw-droppingly beautiful Edmond J Safra fountain court, this is the ideal way to spend a summer evening in London. Likewise, if you enjoy open-air cinema then this is the destination for you. Classics including Hitchcock’s menacing The Birds will be showing on [...]
Diving deep into the void July 19, 2012 IT’S dark side of the moon stuff, it’s like exploration.” So says Sebastien Murat, the free-diver, of life at the bottom of an ultra-deep plunge into the void. “There’s no one down there with me, and the idea of actually having air is really completely foreign.” Murat, a 43-year-old Australian, now lives in a tiny [...]
HOT AIR PROPELS CITY’S LUNCHTIME PURSUITS May 2, 2012 CITY workers fly high above Exchange Square in the specially designed “Broadgate Balloon”, which will be resident in the Moorgate hotspot for anyone seeking a lunchtime thrill – or birds-eye view into their colleagues’ offices. Fifty people every day can win a ride in the balloon, which will be on site until 11 May.
NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT May 24, 2012 AREA AND COMMUTING Esher is a historic town four miles south-west of Kingston but still within easy commuting distance to London. Trains depart from Waterloo and Clapham Junction every 20 minutes, with the journey taking no longer than 25 minutes. The one drawback is that Oyster cards are not valid, so you’ll have to buy [...]
No idyll this: Cairo Year One July 26, 2012 All day every day for a year, Nermine Hammam roved around Tahrir Square and Zamalek in Cairo. Armed only with her Nikon camera, she was snapping the Egyptian revolution – the initial 18-day uprising and its grisly aftermath. With 70,000 pictures to choose from by the close of the year, Hammam had to perform an [...]
THINK OF ALL THAT TIME YOU’VE SAVED… May 16, 2012 Tiny Wings | 69p | iOS Have a few minutes to spare? Then try playing Tiny Wings. The game is incredibly simple: press the screen to make your flightless bird charge down cliffs. Insanely addicitve: don’t play it on the circle line, you’ll be going round all day. Minecraft | £4.99 | iOS and Android [...]
Larry Ellison slaps down SAP in his maiden tweet June 7, 2012 WHEN Larry Ellison, the world’s sixth richest man and chief executive of software giant Oracle, appeared on Twitter earlier this week, addicts of the bird-branded social network waited with bated breath for the tech guru’s first 140-character proclamation. And while his debut tweet – sent moments before the stroke of midnight on Tuesday – was not [...]