Wood Group returns £665m to investors June 13, 2011 Oilfield services provider John Wood Group is to return £665m to its shareholders through a one-off return of £1.40 per share. The capital is being released through an issue of unlisted B and C shares that either pay a dividend or are bought back from shareholders, the company said. The return is part of a [...]
Why Albert Einstein might have been wrong after all and why this really matters October 4, 2011 IT’S the reason the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars has to make the jump into hyperspace and the reason passengers on the Golgafrincham B Ark are in suspended animation in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Every author dealing with space travel has to work with or around Einstein’s speed limit. Nothing goes faster than [...]
News Corp’s bid for Sky to get clearance June 22, 2011 CULTURE secretary Jeremy Hunt is likely to rubber stamp News Corp’s bid for BSkyB within a fortnight. He is expected to trigger a final seven day period of consultation after receiving documents from Ofcom outlining a series of guarantees over the future financial and editorial independence of Sky News. Hunt will be unable to issue [...]
Apps that help you get money back on delays August 10, 2011 HERE’S a useful app for anyone who feels that they don’t necessarily get value for money from their Underground travel – which, let’s face it, is pretty much everyone. TubeTap is an ingenious creation that helps commuters win refunds from London Underground when the service takes too long to get there. As it happens, you [...]
Apps that help you get money back on delays August 10, 2011 HERE’S a useful app for anyone who feels that they don’t necessarily get value for money from their Underground travel – which, let’s face it, is pretty much everyone. TubeTap is an ingenious creation that helps commuters win refunds from London Underground when the service takes too long to get there. As it happens, you [...]
Murdoch’s Sky role in the balance July 18, 2011 James Murdoch’s role as chairman of BSkyB could hinge on his performance at the crunch media select committee hearing this afternoon. The heir apparent to the Murdoch empire has come under increasing pressure to relinquish the Sky chairmanship following News Corp’s handling of the phone hacking scandal. Sources close to the Sky board have told [...]
Murdoch’s Sky role in the balance July 18, 2011 James Murdoch’s role as chairman of BSkyB could hinge on his performance at the crunch media select committee hearing this afternoon. The heir apparent to the Murdoch empire has come under increasing pressure to relinquish the Sky chairmanship following News Corp’s handling of the phone hacking scandal. Sources close to the Sky board have told [...]
Why read Ulysses when you can shoot a zombie? September 11, 2011 In a meeting last week I bonded with my colleagues over shooting a poison pod into the mouth of a necromorph leviathan in the sixth chapter of Dead Space. We laughed at how I spent nearly two hours running in frustrating circles in an anti-gravity chamber, being splattered to the wind by giant alien tentacles. [...]
Kingfisher in BBQ lift but still cautious June 2, 2011 KINGFISHER, Europe’s biggest home improvements retailer, said yesterday a surge in sales of garden furniture and barbecues during warm spring weather had not changed its cautious outlook on consumer spending. The group, which runs market leader B&Q in Britain as well as Castorama and Brico Depot in France, said yesterday shoppers in Britain in particular [...]
END OF THE WORLD July 7, 2011 ■ Murdoch closes best-selling tabloid in desperate bid to save rest of his empire ■ Bid for BSkyB hangs in balance as Hunt delays decision until September RUPERT MURDOCH abruptly ended his 42 year ownership of the News of the World yesterday, killing off the iconic brand in a desperate bid to save the rest [...]