House of Ife review: Effective balance of grief with levity May 5, 2022 You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family, goes the old saying. House of Ife is a damning case for why we feel this way. We’re presented with a split of explosively divisive personalities in the Ife family, showing how far removed we can be from the people we’re birthed by, or [...]
Cabinet backs plans to clampdown on tech giants with strict new content laws February 19, 2022 Home office plans to roll out world’s most stringent internet safety laws have won the backing of the cabinet as the government looks to shift responsibility for harmful online content on to tech giants.
London firefighters battle major blaze in the City as Aldgate tower block fire leads to road closures March 7, 2022 A major fire is currently raging near Aldgate East station as dozens of firefighters are battling a huge blaze. Social media images have shown smoke across the City of London after a fire appears to have broken out on one of the floors of the Crawford Building on Whitechapel High St. The London Fire Brigade [...]
ServiceNow, AND Digital and Salesforce crowned among best places to work in UK January 12, 2022 The best place to work in the UK has been revealed as software company ServiceNow, according to Glassdoor. Tech companies dominate the list of top 50 firms to work for, with 19 firms included in total by Glassdoor, which runs a job reviews platform. ServiceNow was rated strongly by staff members who highlighted a positive [...]
Could tech stocks lose their shine in 2022? January 7, 2022 If you wanted to put money in the stock market over the past five years, then a sure-fire bet has been to invest in US tech stocks, which have significantly outperformed the wider markets. That divergence in performance has been particularly noticeable since the start of the pandemic, as the crisis spurred new ways of [...]
Taking ‘real action’: InPost founder Rafal Brzoska sends 500 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Ukraine April 25, 2022 One of Poland's richest men Rafal Brzoska sent a train carrying over 500 tonnes of food and medical supplies to Ukraine this weekend, in what he calls taking "real action".
A little birdwatching: Are tech firms like Musk’s Twitter ready for regulation? November 16, 2022 ELON MUSK’s dramatic takeover of Twitter – complete with firing the entire management team and half the staff – has been the talk of, ahem, Twitter for the past week, as well as much of the rest of the world. It has also divided opinion amongst the most strongly politically engaged. Many on the right [...]
FTSE 100 today: London markets set to extend record streak on strong global cues April 30, 2024 Asian stocks tracked Wall Street's gains, while Japan's yen held firm after suspected intervention spurred sharp gains. Oil prices dipped amidst Israel-Gaza ceasefire talks, and China's factory activity expanded for the second month. Investor attention was on the upcoming Fed policy decision and earnings reports from Amazon.com and Coca-Cola.
Twitter confirms it removed 3000 accounts connected to state-linked information operations December 2, 2021 Twitter said this morning that it has removed more than 3,000 accounts which were operating as state-linked information operations.
Jack Dorsey’s Square prepares to change its name to Block December 2, 2021 Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has announced that tech company Square will be renamed as Block, hinting at a push into blockchain technology.