Parliament evacuated due to suspicious package June 19, 2014 The Houses of Parliament were evacuated this lunch time after police were alerted to a suspicious package found near the x-ray machines just before 1.00 pm. Although the package turned out to be benign, that didn't stop traffic grinding to a halt as officers cordoned off Parliament Square. Police called off the security alert after [...]
Taxi app or London black cab: Which offers the best fares? June 11, 2014 Black-cab drivers are taking to the streets of London this afternoon in protest against Transport for London (TfL) and taxi app start up Uber (here's why, if you haven't been keeping up). In the battle of old vs new, tradition vs disrupters, which taxi services actually offer the best fare for you? Well, it depends, [...]
Goldman Sachs fined for failing dark pool customers July 1, 2014 Goldman Sachs was yesterday fined $800,000 (£466,200) after investors using its dark pool trading platform received a deal on their transactions. Hundreds of thousands of trades over an eight-day period in 2011 were processed at a price which was not the best on offer, meaning customers lost out, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) said. The [...]
BHP mulls sale of its Australian nickel business May 14, 2014 BHP BILLITON yesterday said it was considering selling off its nickel business in western Australia, as the miner pushes ahead with plans to streamline its portfolio. “The review is considering all options for the long-term future of Nickel West, including the potential sale of all or parts of the business,” said the firm. The asset [...]
Apple Watch and iPhone 6 launch: Share price, spec, features, UK release date and what the analysts say September 9, 2014 Apple has launched two new iPhones, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and the Apple Watch smartwatch at a much-hyped launch event in California. Chief executive Tim Cook introduced the iPhones in a short speech calling them Apple's best ever iPhones. The iPhone 6 is 4.7 inches and the iPhone 6 Plus is 5.5 inches [...]
Longitude Prize: Why open innovation can help us take on antibiotic resistance July 27, 2014 The battle against the bugs has become something of a crusade. A month ago, the public chose the search for an answer to antibiotic resistance as the topic for the 2014 Longitude Prize, a £10m challenge to help solve one of the greatest issues of our time. Recently, David Cameron committed the UK to leading [...]
Carl Icahn tells Tim Cook: Apple share price dramatically undervalued October 9, 2014 Infamous activist investor Carl Icahn has published in full a letter to Apple urging Chief Tim Cook and board executives to buyback shares. Icahn tweeted yesterday about the letter to Cook hinting "Believe it will be interesting." In the letter, Icahn said Apple was "dramatically undervalued in today's market" and that "the more shares repurchased [...]
The new rules of career planning: Embrace chance September 11, 2014 Even our best laid schemes have the nasty habit of going awry WHERE would you like to be in a decade’s time? It seems a natural question. Surely the captains of industry didn’t get to where they are today without the requisite amount of career planning and strategic networking? This may have been the case [...]
Britcoin surging: A digital currency that claims to uphold “British morals” August 4, 2014 Another day and another cryptocurrency is surging. However, this crypto is not one that has received the attention of Bitcoin, Darkcoin, Peercoin – and understandably so given its size and age. This month-old crypto is none other than Britcoin, a digital currency that "upholds British morals", according to its creator William Thomas. Quite how a decentralised [...]
Farnborough International Airshow sales go on but F-35 is barred from flying July 16, 2014 The second day of the Farnborough International Airshow saw further multi-billion sales. But there was bad news as the Pentagon ruled out flying over the F-35 to the show. Airbus continued to pull in deals, as Dublin-based SMBC Aviation Capital ordered 115 A320 planes, worth about $11.8bn (£6.9bn), and BOC aviation, the Singapore based leasing [...]