These are the five hottest new phones from MWC 2017 March 1, 2017 Nokia 3310 Around £40 nokia.com This unexpected reboot of Nokia’s iconic late 90s handset blew the minds of every 30-something year old at MWC. Made by HMD (the Finnish startup that bought the rights to the Nokia name) this homage to the 3310 roughly mimics the original design while making a few concessions to modernisation. [...]
Antony Jenkins’ fintech startup has revealed its first banking client November 1, 2016 The former boss of Barclays Antony Jenkins has revealed his new fintech startup's first client – and it's a well known name. 10x Future Technologies will build a digital banking platform for Virgin Money, the challenger bank founded by Richard Branson and boasting millions of customers. It will work on creating a digital platform for the bank [...]
Virgin Money chief exec Jayne-Anne Gadhia: Brexit made us shelf plans for small business banking, but it might have worked out in our favour February 28, 2017 A series of unforeseen events means Virgin Money might be better off after having to drop a deal to go into small business banking because of Brexit. The challenger bank had been due to acquire an asset finance business, which would have allowed it to expand its offering into small business banking, but changed its [...]
Bentley Bentayga review: The British marque’s first SUV gets gets the manufacturer’s first diesel engine April 13, 2017 Sadiq Khan is getting tough on diesels. From April 2019, owners of the most polluting cars will pay £12.50 (on top of the existing C-charge) to enter central London. And the Mayor has hinted that diesels could eventually be banned from the city altogether. Probably not the ideal time, then, for Bentley to launch the [...]
Nissan hails bumper year for car production as Qashqai drives sales January 26, 2017 After providing a boost to the government post-Brexit vote, Nissan has now sounded a positive note over its 30th anniversary in the UK. It has said its 2016 UK car production figures of 507,430 vehicles were the second highest in its Sunderland plant's history. And it's giving a thumbs up for the near future too, saying 2017 [...]
These two top tech bosses have been named advisers to Trump December 14, 2016 Donald Trump has added top tech firepower to a group of business leaders who will advise him on economic matters. Uber boss Travis Kalanick and the entrepreneur behind Tesla and Space X, Elon Musk, have joined the President-elect's Strategic and Policy Forum which will involve meeting with the President frequently. Read more: Move over Trump and [...]
Business secretary Greg Clark says Nissan letter could be published December 14, 2016 The business secretary has today said he would be open to publishing a letter he sent to car manufacturer Nissan. When asked by the Business Committee if he would share the letter with its members, Greg Clark said he planned to release the letter once certain aspects which currently made it commercially confidential had passed. [...]
Ex-Barclays boss Antony Jenkins is joining bitcoin wallet startup Blockchain December 13, 2016 The former boss of Barclays, Antony Jenkins, is getting deeper into the world of fintech, joining the board of the largest bitcoin wallet startup in the world, Blockchain. “Blockchain technology has the potential to reinvent the way we use money and contribute to a finance system that’s high quality, low cost, secure, fair and transparent,” said [...]
Vodafone is to begin testing 5G mobile network benefits in UK smart cars October 5, 2016 Vodafone is to begin tests of new mobile connection technology to let cars talk to each, possibly preventing crashes, on UK roads. The telecoms giant has plans to use the 5G mobile network to let cars send messages to each other to signal their intention to change lane, indicate, or emergency stop. Last month some of [...]
CRH shares jump as Trump plans to ramp up infrastructure spending in the US March 1, 2017 Shares in CRH have risen more than five per cent today as US infrastructure spending is seen growing further in 2017. The figures The Dublin-based group posted pre-tax profit up 69 per cent to €1.74bn (£1.49bn) while earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) for the full year increased 10 per cent on a proforma basis to €3.13bn. Basic earnings per [...]