Meet the Gartner Hype Cycle for 2015: It’s all about self-driving cars and smart dust in emerging tech trends August 18, 2015 You've probably heard of the self-driving car, but smart dust probably isn't on your radar just yet. That's because the autonomous vehicle trend has hit what's known as the peak of inflated expectation. Smart dust on the other hand, is at the earliest stage of innovation, as defined by Gartner in its annual research on [...]
US stocks lifted by results even after IBM drag – New York Report October 20, 2014 US stocks ended higher yesterday on investor hopes for a strong earnings season, but IBM’s disappointing results limited gains. Earnings reports from Halliburton, Gannett, and others, helped ease the worries over global growth and falling commodity prices that last week helped drive stocks close to correction territory. Texas Instruments posted third-quarter revenue of $3.5bn, up [...]
It’s time to negotiate an international transfer at work – here’s how you do it August 31, 2015 It can be the best of times, it can be the worst of times. Our attitudes to the first few “back to work” days in September can encompass happiness, stoical acceptance, dread and everything in between. And data shows that it’s prime time for career re-evaluation. Last year, there was a 62 per cent rise [...]
EU referendum: Asda, HSBC, Vodafone and nearly 200 sign letter saying Brexit would threaten jobs – but Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s are not on the list February 23, 2016 The bosses of HSBC, BT, Vodafone and Asda are among those to have put their name to an open letter backing the remain camp and Prime Minister David Cameron's reforms in Europe. More than a third of the UK's biggest companies were represented in the letter, which was published in The Times this morning, saying they represented [...]
City Moves for 23 July 2015 | Who’s switching jobs July 22, 2015 Knight Frank Stephanie Gray has been appointed senior surveyor in the property consultancy’s capital markets team. She joins from Inglis Howie, where she was a senior surveyor involved in investment acquisitions and disposals across the UK. Neptune Investment Management The fund manager has appointed Joshua Ausden as head of client investment strategy. He joins in [...]
Michael Dell talks EMC deal, leadership style, cyber attacks and how to prevent digital fear among companies November 8, 2015 Imagine striking the biggest tech deal of all time. Well, Michael Dell, founder of the eponymous tech company, is trying to do exactly that. Three weeks ago, the giant announced a $67bn bet on digital storage company EMC. “We believe that scale matters,” says Dell. “We believe that converged infrastructure is real. The software-defined data [...]
Deutsche Bank eyes FinTech startups with innovation labs in London, Berlin and Silicon Valley June 4, 2015 Deutsche Bank is the latest big lender to turn to the startup world for business innovation, eyeing FinTech startups to help kickstart its €1bn (£735m) digital strategy with the opening of three new innovation labs in Europe and the US. The bank will partner with HCL, Microsoft and IBM to open centres in London, Berlin and Silicon [...]
Monitise share price soars on extension to IBM partnership August 27, 2014 London-listed Monitise saw its shares soar 13.2 per cent yesterday after the mobile banking and payments firm announced a deeper alliance with business giant IBM. This would include the transfer of teams from Monitise’s development and implementation workforce to IBM. Monitise sells white-label mobile banking software – used by customers including Visa, Natwest and HSBC [...]
From West to East: These five cities will take over as the world’s biggest tech centres in the future September 14, 2015 Berlin, London, Tel Aviv – these cities are all becoming synonymous with startups, and fierce competitors to Silicon Valley. But successful new technology firms are no longer limited to developed economies, with thousands now making gains in emerging markets in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. According to data from the World [...]
City Moves for 13 July 2015 | Who’s switching jobs July 12, 2015 New Quadrant Partners The private client law firm has appointed Helen McGhee as a senior associate. She joins from Squire Patton Boggs. McGhee was recently named rising star at the LexisNexis Taxation Awards, and advises on all aspects of tax affairs. BMO Global Asset Management The investment management firm has announced the appointment of David [...]