Google Pixel review: Quite comfortably the greatest Android phone ever made October 19, 2016 Every Android phone has come with some compromise built in. Whereas the iPhone owes much of its popularity to Apple’s ability to control every last design detail – creating software and hardware that works in perfect harmony – Google has always had to rely on third-party manufacturers to build its phones. Imperfection’s gnarled fingers tended [...]
The Apprentice 2016: Here’s what happened in last night’s episode October 14, 2016 In last night’s show candidates undertook a Lord Sugar favourite – the advertising task. But the outcome was less Mad Men, and more men bickering over a bus shelter advert. As usual for this challenge, the teams were given a product and a random adjective to use when marketing it. This year, they had to flog a pair [...]
OnePlus 3 review: This Chinese-made phone is one of the best non-exploding Android handset on the market October 12, 2016 If you can keep your head, wrote Mister Kipling, while all around you phones are literally catching fire and exploding, then you can pretty much claim the Android throne unimpeded, my son. The new OnePlus 3 is, for its price (and for prices a great deal higher too), one of the best non-exploding Android phones [...]
Botox maker Allergan’s results come in below expectations August 8, 2016 Pharmaceutical giant Allergan’s share price tumbled more than two per cent in the US on Monday as its results came in below expectations. The figures Ireland-based Allergan reported total net revenues of $3.7bn (£2.8bn) in the second quarter of this year – up two per cent from the previous three months. But Wall Street had expected [...]
Fifa crisis: World Cup 2026 bidding process suspended, says general secretary Jerome Valcke June 10, 2015 Fifa has suspended the bidding process for the 2026 World Cup, according to secretary general Jerome Valcke. The bidding process for the 2026 tournament which is due to be awarded at the 2017 Fifa Congress in Kuala Lumpur, will now be postponed as Fifa wrestles with the fallout of the US Department of Justice investigation [...]
Emerging market turmoil claims big hedge fund scalp February 11, 2014 We've got our first victim. Brevan Howard is shutting down its $2.3bn emerging market fund – after it lost more than 15 per cent last year, and it's lost around 1.6 per cent this year. Those losses came during a time of some not inconsiderable pain for emerging market investors. In 2012, that same fund [...]
Down the Tubes: Boris mucks in amid transport meltdown February 5, 2014 (Laura Lean/City A.M.) Boris Johnson has had an interesting commute in on the Northern Line this morning as the Tube strike over ticket office closures causes huge disruption across the network. The Mayor spoke to commuters and Tube staff working at London Bridge – as well as some of the TfL staff volunteering at stations in [...]
New device could slash STD results times to 30 minutes January 16, 2014 Today saw the announcement of a new of a point of care device that can deliver state of the art test results for a host of diseases in just 30 minutes. Patients could be provided with testing and begin their treatment in just a single visit to the clinicians as soon as next year. Current [...]
At the ready… five limbering up for fitness December 9, 2013 City A.M. and London’s newest cutting edge fitness club LAX St Botolph’s have selected five City workers to join them on a five star fitness journey to hit their health goals over the next four months LAX St Botolph’s is the city’s largest dedicated fitness club, where the latest fitness techniques and thinking are combined [...]
US treasury secretary Lew says a default would be awful for markets October 10, 2013 Treasury secretary Jack Lew has dismissed a popular alternative to a debt ceiling raise for the US and suggests that a default on debt interest payments could wreak financial havoc. Lew says that the possibility of the US failing to pay what it owes will hurt stocks, short-term Treasury securities and the dollar. Not great [...]