Four business books to read this summer July 12, 2015 Develop a subscription service from your sunlounger. Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg founded an online bookclub, promising to read a new book every two weeks. From Jeff Bezos to Zappos’s Tony Hsieh, many top business leaders are bound by a love of books. It can be hard to pack 400 pages into a punishing [...]
Is Chris Moyles coming back to breakfast radio? XFM job would put ex-BBC presenter up against Radio One’s Nick Grimshaw July 5, 2015 Former Radio One superstar DJ Chris Moyles is rumoured to be returning to breakfast radio where he made his name – this time with XFM. According to reports in the Sun on Sunday, the new show is going to start in September, after Moyles spends a couple of months putting together some ideas. If confirmed, [...]
The social climber: Range Rover Evoque review October 5, 2015 Every so often, a car comes along that captures the zeitgeist – appealing to fashionistas and forward-thinking petrolheads alike. In 2011, that car was the Range Rover Evoque: a compact 4×4 with space-age styling and an interior designed by Posh Spice. A long waiting list followed its launch, and more than 450,000 have been sold [...]
SpaceX Falcon 9 mission to International Space Station is put on hold until Friday January 6, 2015 SpaceX's plan to send a rocket up into space and then land it safely back on Earth has been aborted until Friday. The mission, which involves sending a cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard rocket Falcon X, was almost ready to go this morning when a technical issue meant it had to [...]
Why it’s not time to dump US equities: A Fed interest rate hike won’t drag down stocks June 16, 2015 For US equity investors, it’s all eyes on the Fed until we see the first lift-off in interest rates in September or potentially December this year. We’ve got beyond the patch of weak economic data earlier in 2015 and are returning to stronger growth, as signalled by healthy labour market data in recent months. Ironically, [...]
Watch: Rubik’s Cube whizz Collin Burns just set a new record April 27, 2015 A teenager has just smashed the Rubik's Cube world record, shaving 0.3 seconds off the previous record. Collin Burns managed to solve the puzzle in 5.25 seconds at a competition in Doylestown, Pennsylvania organised by the official World Cube Association (of which, incidentally Burns himself was an organiser). A representative from the association confirmed to [...]
TfL Tube strike 2015: Uber surge pricing triples fares as travellers face transport chaos July 9, 2015 The price of getting an Uber has rocketed as London's Tube network was brought to a standstill by strike action. The ride-booking app introduces surge pricing during times of high demand, and the basic fare increased as much as 2.9 times the cost on an average day after the strike began during yesterday evening's rush [...]
Elon Musk reveals all in Reddit AMA shortly before SpaceX rocket launch cancelled January 6, 2015 Elon Musk, Silicon Valley’s enigmatic answer to Richard Branson, had an interesting day yesterday. The soon-to-be-divorced (from English actress Talulah Riley, again) SpaceX founder was due to send one of his rockets, Falcon X, to the International Space Station – then safely land it back on earth to be used again, a first in rocket [...]
Virgin Galactic joining the space race for broadband with OneWeb June 25, 2015 BRITISH-BASED satellite operator OneWeb, which wants to sell internet service via satellites, said yesterday that it has signed multi-million dollar contracts with spaceflight companies Virgin Galactic and Arianespace for 60 flights. OneWeb, which is privately-owned and based in Britain’s Channel Islands, also said that it has raised $500m (£318m) from a group of global investors, [...]
Wimbledon 2015 betting tips July 9, 2015 Barring Rafael Nadal’s second round slip-up to Dustin Brown, and Stan Wawrinka’s quarter-final reverse against Richard Gasquet, this year’s Wimbledon has been pretty much business as usual. Read more: Flawless Fed serves up stiff test of Murray title credentials The world’s top three convene in the semis, where they are joined by Gasquet. [...]