Right to Dream founder Tom Vernon to explore buying British football club after securing €100m investment for pioneering project January 20, 2021 The English coach behind Africa’s leading football academy, Right to Dream, has secured a €100m investment to expand the pioneering model and explore the purchase of a British club. The deal sees Egyptian conglomerate the Mansour Group become majority shareholder in Right to Dream, which also owns Danish football club FC Nordsjaelland. Founder Tom Vernon, [...]
No substitute for creativity in the office, says adland boss August 20, 2020 There is no substitute for face-to-face interaction in the creative process, the boss of advertising giant Havas London has said. Speaking on City A.M.’s The City View podcast, Xavier Rees, chief executive of Havas London, said there is a limit to what people can do away from the office. “It’s true to say we can [...]
For Corbyn and antisemitism, “sorry” still seems to be the hardest word October 30, 2020 One of the markers of genuine leadership is being able to recognise when you have been wrong, to apologise, and to commit to a change of course. This is an attribute that Jeremy Corbyn had multiple opportunities to demonstrate as the Labour party lurched from one antisemitism crisis to the next under his leadership. Each [...]
Barcelona’s strategy to attract foreign tech investment, second best in Europe October 26, 2020 The number of foreign tech companies in Catalonia grew by 21% in 2020 reaching 1,369 The fDi Intelligence division of the ‘Financial Times’ group together with The Next Web – one of the leading European media and companies in the field of technology and startups – recognise Barcelona and Catalonia’s strategy to attract foreign technological [...]
EU hosts virtual summit on vaccine supply as scepticism blights Astrazeneca uptake February 25, 2021 EU leaders will host a virtual summit this afternoon over its immunisation programme, as supply issues and false suspicions over the Astrazeneca jab continue to hamper vaccine uptake. Countries across the continent are facing growing anger over the sluggish progress of the EU’s vaccine rollout, as the bloc continues to lag behind Britain. European leaders [...]
Netflix subscriber numbers fall short as Covid-19 lockdown boost fizzles October 20, 2020 Netflix tonight posted the weakest new subscriber numbers in four years as streaming competition increased, lockdowns eased and live sports returned to television. The company added 2.2 million paid Netflix subscribers globally during the quarter to 30 September, missing Wall Street’s target of 3.4 million. Earnings per share also landed below analyst expectations at $1.74. [...]
UK and France working ‘at pace’ to block Channel asylum seekers August 11, 2020 The UK and France are working “at pace” to stop asylum seekers from illegally entering the UK by boat, according to immigration minister Chris Philp. Philp was in Paris today to meet his French counterparts, telling reporters afterward that Emmanuel Macron agreed that something had to be done to stop migrants crossing the English Channel [...]
Why bitcoin going to $1,000,000 is unlikely and horrifying October 19, 2020 Bitcoin maximalists continue to shriek about their beloved bitcoin and how the price is going “to the moon”. Bitcoin may be lacking fundamental characteristics of a Ponzi scheme, but there are plenty of similarities. The endless pumping of bitcoin on Twitter and all manner of other social media is much the same as those operating [...]
Bitcoin community resilient amid confusion surrounding BTC’s whitepaper January 25, 2021 CryptoCompare data shows the price of Bitcoin (BTC) moved from around $36,000 to a low under the $30,000 mark before the cryptocurrency’s price recovered. It’s now trading at $33,000 and appears to be within a tight range with support at $31,000. Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, kept on moving up throughout the [...]
White House pushes ahead with plans to ban Tiktok ‘in weeks’ July 16, 2020 Chinese social media platform Tiktok could be banned in the US in a matter of weeks, after the White House last night said it was reviewing “national security risks” related to the app. Bytedance-owned Tiktok and other Chinese apps have been accused by US officials of harvesting user data and sharing it with Beijing’s government. [...]