City Moves for 10 February 2014 | Who’s switching jobs February 9, 2014 Deloitte The professional services firm has appointed Rachel Crowley as go to market director in its real estate division. She joined Deloitte’s financial services practice in 2006 and became a director in 2013. Crowley previously held marketing roles at Accenture in Paris and London. Baker Tilly The law firm has hired Peter Vandervelde as head [...]
Meet the UK’s professional mermaids March 12, 2014 LinkedIn, the internet’s answer to a our hatred of networking events, has passed a notable milestone (ahem, as has the internet, “happy 25th birthday internet”). The business-friendly social network now has 15m members in the UK. That’s a relatively impressive 23 per cent of the UK. But what is perhaps more impressive, is the [...]
Beckham’s stadium plan to get Miami franchise off to best start March 25, 2014 FORMER England captain David Beckham has released the first details of plans for a new stadium that experts say will give his impending Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise in Miami the best chance of survival. Beckham wants to build a futuristic 25,000-seater arena in the Florida city’s port district close to NBA basketball champions Miami [...]
It’s time to banish corporate jargon March 19, 2014 Buzzwords and management-speak are not only bad for business, but for your career too CAN WE drill down in the thought shower?” If this sentence makes sense to you, you could be under jargon’s wicked spell. And according to Deloitte, businesspeople are among the worst offenders when it comes to using pompous or inflated language. [...]
United drop out of top three in football rich list January 22, 2014 MANCHESTER United have lost their status as one of the world’s three richest clubs, according to research published today. Despite growing revenue by 13 per cent to £363m in 2012-13, the English champions fell behind Bayern Munich due to the German club’s treble-winning success. Real Madrid remain top of Deloitte’s Football Money League for a [...]
Is it music to Kim Dotcom’s ears? January 21, 2014 MEGAUPLOAD founder Kim Dotcom has celebrated the two year anniversary of the week the FBI raided his New Zealand home and closed the file sharing site, by launching an album and a new music-sharing service called Baboom. The electronic music album, called “Good Times,” is currently the only music available on Baboom (which is in [...]
What the other papers say this morning – 03 March 2014 March 3, 2014 FINANCIAL TIMES Britain to scrap VAT on Bitcoin trades Britain’s tax authority plans to ditch value added tax on Bitcoin trading only days after the collapse of Mt Gox, one of the virtual currency’s leading exchanges, losing almost $500m of customer deposits. In a meeting with a group of UK traders last week, HM Revenue [...]
Gimme 5 January 19, 2014 …UPCOMING EVENTS FOR ENTREPRENEURS Don’t Pitch Me, Bro! 30 January, 6-10pm A 3 Beards event giving entrepreneurs feedback on their startup from their peers. No pitches, just demos. £5 Wayra UK, WC1E 6JA Dinner with Simon Sinek 4 February, 7-11pm Tech City News Supper Club’s latest event. Over the course of dinner, author Sinek will [...]
How SMEs can drive growth from connected customers May 7, 2014 Small businesses must embrace new technology or risk being left behind RECENT technological advances, while enabling companies to be constantly connected to their customers and suppliers across a range of channels (driving both cost and productivity benefits), have also radically changed how consumers view firms. In one of the more obvious manifestations of the trend, [...]
Miseryville: Thames floods worsen February 10, 2014 Evacuations by the Thames as floods continue RESIDENTS in communities along the river Thames have pleaded with the government to send in the army as river levels continued to rise overnight with more rain forecast for the rest of this week. Thames Valley Police declared a major incident in east Berkshire, the Environment Agency warned [...]