What to watch on Thursday at the Olympics: Viewing times for Adam Gemili, Usain Bolt, Nicola Adams and Alistair Brownlee August 17, 2016 Usain Bolt’s campaign for a historic “triple triple” enters stage two in the men’s 200m final at 2:30am on Friday morning. Team GB athletics captain Adam Gemili is expected to battle for one of the remaining podium places. Bolt and Gemili will also race in the men’s 4x100m relay opening round for Jamaica and Great Britain, [...]
These are London’s best postcodes for quality of life August 31, 2016 If you're looking for a better quality of life, look no further than SE1, according to new research, which suggests Bermondsey is the capital's most desirable postcode. According to the research, by Banda Property, Bermondsey is top of the postcode pops because of its "elusive London village feel". Read more: House price growth is driving [...]
Four ways working will change over the next 20 years August 30, 2016 Robots, the generation gap and increased employee demands are just some of the factors expected to change the workforce over the next 20 years, according to new research. The Future of the Workforce, a report commissioned by UBS Wealth Management, sets out the four main ways in which the workforce is "set to significantly change [...]
Edinburgh at the heart of the global revolution in digital healthcare driven by science fiction November 28, 2016 From the work of HG Wells to Arthur C Clarke, science fiction visionaries have predicted all manner of technological advances. Just look at the 2002 cyberpunk thriller, Minority Report. Facial recognition, personalised advertising, predictive crime fighting, gesture control, driverless cars – sound familiar? Yet some technologies have remained tantalisingly beyond our reach…until now. As Star [...]
Rio 2016 Olympics: What to watch on Tuesday including James Guy, Michael Phelps, Chad le Clos, William Fox-Pitt, David Florence, women’s team gymnastics final and men’s rugby sevens August 8, 2016 Great Britain has gold medal hopes in multiple events on Tuesday in Rio – including swimming, eventing, gymnastics and canoeing – without being strong favourite in any of them. James Guy and the men’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay team stunned repeat winners the United States at last year’s World Championships and will look to [...]
Brace yourself: Musk’s pulling all-nighter on top secret Tesla masterplan July 20, 2016 Fans of Elon Musk and Tesla, prepare yourself – the top entrepreneur and visionary thinker will delight you with a new plan for the electric car company. Musk teased the "top secret masterplan, part two" on Twitter last week, but has kept everyone guessing about what it might contain. Working on Top Secret Tesla Masterplan, Part 2. Hoping to [...]
City Moves for 8 June 2016 | Who’s switching jobs June 8, 2016 National Football League UK Melissa Brown, a sales and marketing executive with more than 15 years’ experience in the entertainment industry, has joined the National Football League’s London office to take responsibility for further growing the league’s commercial performance in the UK. Melissa joins the NFLUK office as vice-president of commercial partnerships following a stint [...]
How to build a creative company: Lucky Generals’ Helen Calcraft talks MBAs and 50 Cent October 24, 2016 "It's a quote by Napoleon. He was asked what it takes to win a war and he replied: ‘Bring me your lucky generals’,” says Helen Calcraft. “We liked the idea of being those generals that clients can send into battle and come back with a win.” Her agency, Lucky Generals, has been winning a fair [...]
How nuclear terrorism is a $1bn opportunity for this UK firm July 19, 2016 Radiation detection firm Kromek believes its product, which helps security services protect cities from nuclear terrorism, presents a $1bn opportunity in the next five to 10 years. The DS3 detectors — small, blackberry-like devices that can be carried around by individual police officers — create a comprehensive heat map of radiation. This then identifies irregular radiation sources, such as a person [...]
Commercial property rents in London are facing a potential freeze as negotiating power passes to tenants post the Brexit vote July 18, 2016 COMMERCIAL property rents in London could be frozen for the next five years as Brexit uncertainty puts negotiating power in the hands of those tenants whose rent reviews fall this year. “Frozen”, or even falling, rents would put more pressure on commercial property funds that have already seen high levels of redemptions since the referendum. [...]