Google joins online music drive May 10, 2011 Google has launched an online music locker service to allow users to store and access their songs wherever they are, similar to one launched by Amazon.com in March. Like the Amazon Cloud Drive player, the Google music service is being introduced without any prior licensing deals with major music labels, following months of fruitless negotiations. [...]
Google joins online music drive May 10, 2011 Google has launched an online music locker service to allow users to store and access their songs wherever they are, similar to one launched by Amazon.com in March. Like the Amazon Cloud Drive player, the Google music service is being introduced without any prior licensing deals with major music labels, following months of fruitless negotiations. [...]
Next IMF boss shouldn’t be European May 20, 2011 FAR too much time and energy is being wasted on trying to work out who the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) new boss will be. The truth is that it is unlikely to matter that much: the individuals entrusted with the running of large transnational bureaucracies almost invariably find it impossible to break away from the [...]
Next IMF boss shouldn’t be European May 19, 2011 FAR too much time and energy is being wasted on trying to work out who the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) new boss will be. The truth is that it is unlikely to matter that much: the individuals entrusted with the running of large transnational bureaucracies almost invariably find it impossible to break away from the [...]
Asos gets boost from overseas sales July 14, 2011 ONLINE fashion retailer Asos saw sales soar in the first quarter, but boss Nick Robertson dismissed speculation that the company was being seriously eyed as a takeover target. Asos, which targets young trendy customers, said its retail sales increased 69 per cent to £104.2m in the three months to 30 June. International sales soared 160 [...]
Asos gets boost from overseas sales July 14, 2011 ONLINE fashion retailer Asos saw sales soar in the first quarter, but boss Nick Robertson dismissed speculation that the company was being seriously eyed as a takeover target. Asos, which targets young trendy customers, said its retail sales increased 69 per cent to £104.2m in the three months to 30 June. International sales soared 160 [...]
Amazon buying into nappy business November 7, 2010 AMAZON.COM is expected to buy the parent company of Diapers.com for $540m (£333.5m) to $545m, according to media reports. The deal is set to be announced today, according to a report on Fortune magazine’s website over the weekend. The acquisition comes as Amazon has stepped up its efforts to boost its babycare products business. In [...]
Gadgets to help you get groomed May 4, 2011 SITTING around with sensors clamped to your face emitting tingly vibrations may not be a great look (particularly in an office, let me tell you), but it just might make you better looking. That’s the proposition anyway with the Slendertone, a gizmo that’s intended to tone your facial muscles and tighten the skin, and which [...]
We must reinvent our meetings culture August 17, 2011 AUTHOR I THINK 100 years from now, we’ll look back at the absurd amount of time organisations spend inside of meetings and we’ll laugh. Or maybe we’ll cry. The meeting problem has grown into a full-blown debacle. Back to back to back, poorly executed, tortuously long meetings are hijacking our calendars and draining our enthusiasm. [...]
The docks that you don’t have to dock with June 1, 2011 THE annoying thing with docks for MP3 players is how problematic and fragile those multi-pin docking connectors can be. Much easier if you don’t have to connect at all, which is what the latest generation of wireless docks and speakers enable. Bluetooth speaker systems have been around a little while but in items like Soundfreaq’s [...]