Christmas adverts 2019: Watch retailers from Argos to M&S and Amazon launch their festive ad campaigns November 8, 2019 We might only be a week into November but some of UK’s biggest retailers have already launched their 2019 Christmas advert campaigns, as firms race to make the most of the crucial festive trading period after a challenging year for the high street. In what has become a festive tradition, retailers have pulled out all [...]
World’s largest superyacht puts luxury apartments up for sale June 28, 2021 While private boats may be out of reach for all but the world’s richest people, wealthy househunters will now be given the chance to own a slice of what will be the largest superyacht ever built. Backers of the 220-metre vessel, due to launch in 2024, are offering 39 apartments for sale on the boat [...]
Tech stocks – slow-down or slump? July 27, 2021 With the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating the shift towards a digital-first world; technology stocks rose to all-time highs in 2020, as people spent more time online.1 However, as economies have begun to reopen following the rollout of highly effective coronavirus vaccines; tech stocks sold-off as investors rotated towards sectors set to benefit from reopening. In this [...]
Reading financial news: The top 10 avoidable distractions November 16, 2021 If you’re like me, you’re bombarded daily by financial news that screams for your attention. But a lot of what we read is either irrelevant, shallow, or incomplete and hence misleading and distracting from an investment perspective. I’ve identified the top 10 distractions, the kind of stories that have no value or insight and can be easily [...]
Bezos offers to cover $2bn of Nasa costs for lunar contract July 27, 2021 Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos offered Nasa a $2bn (£1.45bn) discount if the space agency allows its company Blue Origin to build a spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon. Bezos said Blue Origin would waive payments up to $2bn in the current and next two fiscal years “to get the program back on track right [...]
US investigates leaked records alleging billionaires including Musk and Bezos pay little tax June 9, 2021 The Treasury Department has asked authorities to investigate tax records cited in a media report that showed some of America’s richest people paid little to no income taxes. US media outlet ProPublica said it obtained a “vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data” on the tax returns of thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people, covering [...]
Maersk buys eight zero-carbon tankers as green push gathers steam August 24, 2021 Shipping giant Maersk has today taken its biggest yet step towards “greening” its fleet by buying eight new tankers powered by carbon-neutral methanol. Each of the vessels, which will be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries, will be able to carry 16,000 containers. When they hit the water in early 2024 they will save 1m tons [...]
Royal Mail shares soar as investors cheer delivery slot shake-up June 7, 2021 Investors have cheered a move by Royal Mail to compete head-to-head with Amazon by allowing customers to choose timed delivery slots. Shares in London pared early gains but still closed up up 1.4 per cent at 599p after the postal firm revealed plans for a system allowing customers to pay more to send and receive [...]
Decentralised cloud computing for Web3’s sustainable future April 1, 2022 Matt Hawkins, founder of Cudo Ventures, talks us through the infrastructure of Web3 cloud computing and its blockchain solutions.
European tech laws should tempt the next Silicon Valley to cross the Atlantic April 1, 2022 In the early years of the last century, Louis Brandeis of America’s Supreme Court believed that markets, without regulation, would destroy their most treasured characteristic, competition. It was Justice Brandeis, above all others, whose actions curtailed the oil industry’s “robber barons” and brought about the age of “antitrust”. Today, for the first time since, anti-monopolists [...]