Now Londoners can get breakfast delivered from UberEats January 31, 2017 Lucky Londoners can get their hands on a free box of croissants this morning, thanks to UberEats and Paul. Uber's joined the breakfast club, adding a breakfast menu from several restaurants to its food delivery service. Purveyor of pastries Paul will be one of the six restaurants delivering a morning pick me up to Londoners [...]
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos wants to blast you into space as soon as 2018 as he reveals plans for his secretive space tourism company Blue Origin March 9, 2016 Amazon's Jeff Bezos has opened up about his ambitious plans to blast people into space on commercial flights above earth within the next two years. Blue Origin, the Amazon founder's commercial space flight company which is a rival to the likes of Elon Musk's Space X and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, will conduct its first test [...]
Here are some of the trends from CES 2017 January 12, 2017 If CES 2017 is anything to go by, this will be quite a year for consumer technology. While I didn’t see any brand-new, game-changing products (most of the technology prevalent at the show has existed in one form or another for a few years now), it’s starting to feel like the future we’ve been promised [...]
Black Friday 2016: Customers of this lender are spending £32,000 a minute November 25, 2016 Nationwide card holders are spending £32,000 a minute in the Black Friday sales. The building society said that between midnight and 8:30am today customers had shelled out £16.3m, an increase on last year's spend. Read more: The best Black Friday deals on consoles and games More than 400,000 transactions have taken place – up 50 per cent [...]
Property of the Week: Restaurateur Peter Langan’s celeb haunt turned 4-bed penthouse in Mayfair January 24, 2017 This top-floor penthouse moments away from fashionable eateries Sketch and Pollen Street Social has links to a historic restaurant itself and once hosted some of Britain’s greatist contemporary artists. Built at the start of the 20th century by Ernest George, the same architect behind the grand, red brick Royal College of Music, this building on [...]
Morrisons are getting hunks to help lift your Black Friday shopping November 23, 2016 Morrisons will have dedicated strong men and women in stores on Black Friday to help you with your heaving bags. Black Friday is set to be bigger than ever this year and has already started online, with several deals available with Amazon. Read more: AO World delivers £1.5m in earnings ahead of Black Friday But Morrisons [...]
Step inside: Visa opens doors to its biggest ever innovation centre in London February 21, 2017 Visa has launched a fresh bid to boost its reputation for innovation with the launch of a new centre in London to "build the future of payments" – from banking via voice assistant to shopping in virtual reality. The 1,000 sq ft centre at its headquarters in Paddington will foster collaboration between Visa and its clients, partners and [...]
Multinationals including Facebook, Google, and Amazon could be forced to make their EU tax documents public April 12, 2016 Multinationals such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook are in danger of being forced by the European Commission to disclose in exactly which European Union countries they pay tax and how much. Under the proposals, announced this afternoon by EU Financial Services Commissioner Jonathan Hill, all multinational companies with a turnover greater than €750m (£600m) would have to comply [...]
Spotify’s “Thanks 2016” campaign cues it up for a prosperous New Year January 11, 2017 In late November, streaming service Spotify launched a global advertising campaign under the banner “Thanks 2016: It’s been weird”. The campaign reflects on a turbulent 2016 by gently poking fun at the dubious streaming history of some of its users. One such example was the ad that featured on one of its UK billboards: “Dear 3,749 [...]
The City should welcome apprenticeships to build a higher-skilled economy for all January 30, 2017 The City of London Corporation recently announced its pledge to hire 100 new apprentices. This figure, combined with 17 current positions, will give 117 career-starters a role in the organisation. This echoes Sadiq Khan’s recent calls for more powers to build skills among London’s workforce – and to help keep the capital globally competitive in [...]