Google settles 10-year legal spat with LVMH September 4, 2014 SEARCH giant Google and luxury goods group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton yesterday announced they had settled a decade-long legal dispute over counterfeit goods being advertised online. LVMH had complained that Google was selling ads that infringed on its trademarks and linked to counterfeit products for sale. Yesterday’s settlement will see both firms work together [...]
2015 ticks off to a good start January 28, 2015 Richemont’s finest came to SIHH with some horological humdingers Wandering the lofty, beige halls of the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) inside Geneva Airport’s cavernous Palexpo complex – “probably the most luxurious trade fair in the world” – the seeming neutrality of its colour-scheme belies the horological hierarchy at play here. Unlike the [...]
“Maybe I’m just a 70-year-old Justin Bieber”: The best quotes from new Janus Capital hire, Pimco co-founder Bill Gross September 26, 2014 Legendary investor Bill Gross has defected from his hugely successful business Pimco to Janus Capital. After 43 years at the firm which manages trillions of dollars of assets, he knows a thing or two about investments. Here are some of Gross’ best quotes from creating the buzzword “new normal” (but not trademarking it) to human [...]
Premier League: Chelsea boss loses faith in love stories after Lampard heartbreak September 21, 2014 MANCHESTER CITY 1 CHELSEA 1 CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinho praised Frank Lampard as a “super professional” despite the Blues’ record goalscorer returning to haunt them at the Etihad Stadium yesterday. Mourinho’s men appeared on track to claim three crucial points against the reigning champions, Andre Schurrle having found the net shortly after Pablo Zabaleta was [...]
The world’s most exclusive shirt July 29, 2014 You would expect a company called Billionaire to pull out all the stops with the launch of its new made to measure service, but the Italian menswear label still manages to surprise you with the sheer opulence of its offering. Not content with fine tailoring, it allows customers to incorporate details including wool infused with [...]
Plain packaging is a losing strategy in the fight against smoking July 30, 2014 In the half-century since the landmark Surgeon General’s Report in the United States that first linked tobacco use to cancer, public-health advocates have made great strides in convincing people to kick the smoking habit–or never pick it up in the first place. The multimedia campaign against smoking continues to rack up successes today, but the [...]
Financial services companies are registering more new products April 22, 2014 FINANCIAL firms are launching twice as many new products as they did during the depths of the debt crisis, with the number of freshly trademarked products heading back towards record levels. According to data from City law firm RPC, there were 3,396 financial services trademarks registered during 2013, exactly double the 1,698 that were announced [...]
Why it’s high time to revisit the maligned Muscadet August 28, 2014 I was lucky enough to spend a few hours of the bank holiday enjoying a stellar meal at Rick Stein’s Seafood restaurant in Padstow, Cornwall – that place has really moved up a gear or two since I was there last. After the pleasantries came the rather pressured task of examining the wine list; all [...]
Julian Assange timeline: From Wikileaks’ cable-leaker to Ecuadorian embassy refugee August 18, 2014 October 2006 – Assange sets up Wikileaks as a platform for anonymous whistleblowers. February 2010 – Wikileaks publishes a leaked cable relating to the Icesave scandal – the first classified documents supplied by Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning. April 2010 – Wikileaks reveals a video called Collateral Murder, showing two US military teams [...]
Wiggins back on track for gold as Scots toast Games July 23, 2014 GLASGOW welcomed the Commonwealth Games with a vibrant opening ceremony last night, but the spotlight will fall on cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins today when competition begins in Scotland. Wiggins makes his track return at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome as part of an English team pursuit squad, hoping to add one of the few gold [...]