Blue sky thinking April 25, 2012 GOOGLE DRIVE COST: 5GB: free; 25GB: $2.49 a month; 100GB: $4.99 a month; 1TB: $49.99 a month; 16TB: $799.99 a month PROS: It’s cheap, compared to rivals (the free part is twice the size of Dropbox’s offering). It allows users to create, sync, store and share files across platforms. It also syncs with Google’s other [...]
Visit Malaysia for the birds, the bees and the leeches October 7, 2012 MY HERO swoops down in the nick of time. I’m perched atop a bare rock, too petrified to move when she flies to my rescue. Barely seven inches tall, the blue-winged pitta flits to the ground and within moments, her beak is filled with what look like needle-thin worms. I’ve never been happier to see [...]
Numis hires former Amazon exec September 13, 2011 Investment bank and broker Numis has taken on Brian McBride, the former head of Amazon’s UK operations, to sit on its advisory board. Numis set up the board to give the firm access to industry experts in a bid to widen its business. McBride follows in the footsteps of former BP chief executive and Vallares [...]
Take pride and GROOM April 10, 2012 Shiseido Men Deep Cleansing Scrub, £21.50, houseoffraser.co.uk Made with cleansing granules, this scrub is meant to perk up your skin and helps prevent ingrown hairs. Good for all skin types, Shiseido is a formidable brand, and if you’re going to have one thing: have this. Tom Ford for Men, £45, houseoffraser.co.uk The king of perfect [...]
Take pride and GROOM April 10, 2012 Shiseido Men Deep Cleansing Scrub, £21.50, houseoffraser.co.uk Made with cleansing granules, this scrub is meant to perk up your skin and helps prevent ingrown hairs. Good for all skin types, Shiseido is a formidable brand, and if you’re going to have one thing: have this. Tom Ford for Men, £45, houseoffraser.co.uk The king of perfect [...]
Nimble thinkers can leave long-term visionaries locked in a time warp June 14, 2012 IN WESTERN Texas, they’re building a clock in a mountain designed to last for 10,000 years. The project, backed by Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos and many other tech luminaries, will take decades to complete and is the centrepiece of a movement to encourage more long-term thinking. The foundation behind it makes a point of [...]
RAPID RESPONSES May 15, 2012 Premier play things [Re: Do we need rules to stop football teams buying success?, yesterday] I am a Chelsea boy, so it’s no surprise that my answer is no. If a billionaire decides he wants to buy a football club, let him. If that means that the club gains an advantage, tough. Man U has [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING April 18, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Ackman plans listing for $4bn fund Pershing Square Capital, the $11bn hedge fund run by high-profile US activist investor Bill Ackman, is planning a $4bn public flotation for a new fund in January 2013. Ackman intends to float the vehicle, which has already been set up in Guernsey and is known as Pershing [...]
Calling all traders: One day to go May 22, 2012 David Jones is the chief market strategist of IG Index and he will be delivering a masterclass at Active Trader on financial spread betting and contracts for difference. TRADING COMMENT DAVID JONES FOR many years, trading financial markets in general, and spread betting in particular, was felt to be the reserve of City professionals. But [...]
Investors queue up to hear from Zuckerberg ahead of Facebook IPO May 7, 2012 FACEBOOK kicked off a road-show to promote its $10bn (£6.17bn) float yesterday. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg fielded questions about the social network’s slowing revenue growth and defended its $1bn purchase of Instagram, telling attendees he would do the deal again if he had to. Hundreds of investors had formed a line outside New York’s Sheraton [...]