Former Yahoo boss lands plum ITV job June 3, 2010 FORMER European Yahoo executive Fru Hazlitt is to join ITV to run the broadcaster’s TV and online sales business in a move designed to better link the company’s different platforms. Hazlitt, who previously ran the radio group GCap Media and commercial operations for Yahoo in the UK and Europe, will take up the newly-created role [...]
Daily Express boss Desmond eyes Five TV June 20, 2010 DAILY Express and Daily Star owner Richard Desmond has joined the bidding for ailing TV station Five, it emerged yesterday. Desmond, who has trumpeted his £1bn acquisitions war chest in recent weeks, is said to have registered his interest in the asset ahead of today’s first-round deadline. The newspaper tycoon, who owns the Daily Express [...]
LSE profit up despite revenue dip May 21, 2010 THE London Stock Exchange has ended up in profit for the year despite a drop in revenue. It recorded a net profit of £90.4m – compared with a loss of £338m last year. Meanwhile revenue for the year to the end of March fell 6.4 per cent to £628m. LSE lost market share to rivals [...]
Off-piste: the pre-snow joys of Chamonix September 26, 2010 ASK MOST people what comes into their head when you mention Chamonix, and they’ll say skiing. But the mountain capital of the world has much more to offer, especially when the snow disappears from everywhere but the highest peaks. Home to over eighty nationalities – making it one of the most multicultural places in France [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEKEND April 15, 2010 FILM REPO MEN Jude Law turns action hero in this futuristic thriller about a nasty trade in human organs. BOOGIE WOOGIE Weak satire of the London art scene with an all-star cast. DEAR JOHN Romantic drama about a GI and the college girl he falls for. DVD LAW ABIDING CITIZEN Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx [...]
LISTED PRODUCT NEWS May 5, 2010 DB X-TRACKERS LAUNCHES S&P 500 ETF Deutsche Bank’s exchange-traded fund (ETF) arm db x-trackers announced on Monday the launch of its new S&P 500 Index ETF, which is UCITS III compliant. The fund will be listed on various European and Asian stock exchanges from the middle of this month but institutional investors can trade the [...]
Head gear for the holidays August 4, 2010 DENON AH-C560R £99.99 www.denon.co.uk It would take some particularly good in-ear buds to make me pick them instead of over-head headphones – normally I find them uncomfortable, I fret about what damage they’re doing to my hearing, and they fall out. But Denon’s new AH-C560R phones (catchy name, guys) have come as close as any [...]
Head gear for the holidays August 4, 2010 DENON AH-C560R £99.99 www.denon.co.uk It would take some particularly good in-ear buds to make me pick them instead of over-head headphones – normally I find them uncomfortable, I fret about what damage they’re doing to my hearing, and they fall out. But Denon’s new AH-C560R phones (catchy name, guys) have come as close as any [...]
Bringing panache to lunchtime July 8, 2010 THE eureka moment for a new business idea can strike at any time. For Mark Lilley it was while he was eating fresh sushi with his wife in downtown Sydney in the middle of a round-the-world trip in 2002. The result was a ticket home and opening Abokado, a cross between a sushi bar and [...]
Brits should ask for more April 18, 2010 THE IRISH saying tells us “never run after a bus or a man – there will always be another one”. It doesn’t ring true in this instance: as far as Deutsche Bahn (DB) is concerned, Arriva is one of a kind. With the European public transport market set for massive liberalisation over the next decade, [...]