Spotify could miss Christmas US launch November 23, 2010 Spotify’s US launch is being met with increasing scepticism by analysts. The music streaming service said this week it will press ahead with its plans to launch in the US before Christmas, despite announcing a full-year loss of £16.7m for 2009. “I’d be very surprised if they manage to pull this off in the timeframe [...]
Spotify could miss Christmas US launch November 23, 2010 Spotify’s US launch is being met with increasing scepticism by analysts. The music streaming service said this week it will press ahead with its plans to launch in the US before Christmas, despite announcing a full-year loss of £16.7m for 2009. “I’d be very surprised if they manage to pull this off in the timeframe [...]
Christmas party poopers Everton spoil City’s opportunity to go top of the table December 20, 2010 MANCHESTER CITY v/s EVERTON A BATTLING display from 10-man Everton prevented Manchester City from topping the table at Christmas for the first time since 1929. Roberto Mancini’s side were boosted prior to kick-off by the news of Carlos Tevez’s transfer request u-turn, but that was as good as it got on a night of missed [...]
OSBORNE’S AUSTERITY CHRISTMAS: A CHEAP TREE AND EMPTY RED BOX December 9, 2010 FOLLOWING on from The Capitalist’s report yesterday on what George Osborne will be collecting in taxes from you this season, readers might be happy to know that the chancellor will himself will be enforcing an austerity Christmas on his office. He certainly had a sorry Christmas tale to tell at yesterday’s lunch with the political [...]
Thorntons and Carpetright to shut branches June 28, 2011 HIGH street chocolate seller Thorntons and carpet retailer Carpetright yesterday warned they will both shut more branches in a bid to trim costs and stay afloat. Thorntons, which gave a profit warning in May, said a minimum of 120 shops would shut, with the possibility of an extra 60 closures. The group currently has 227 [...]
HOW JAMES MURDOCH CAN TRUMP BROOKS’S August 31, 2011 GOOD NEWS for anyone looking forward to joining James Murdoch at the bar of the prestigious gentlemen’s club Brooks’s, as its secretary Graham Snell has confirmed all is not yet lost for the News Corp heir’s membership application. As those of you who read The Capitalist’s original story on 9 August will recall, things were [...]
West End Christmas sales up on last year, exceeding rest of UK December 12, 2010 WEST end shops recorded a 7.6 per cent rise in November sales compared to last year, it was announced today. Promotions such as the traffic free VIP Day (“Very Important Pedestrians”) boosted sales, according to retail trackers Springboard. The surge was considerably above the relatively flat 0.7 per cent increases in the rest of the [...]
Retailers confident of Christmas boom as sales rise again November 25, 2010 RETAIL sales have unexpectedly shot up in the UK, according to figures released yesterday. In a survey conducted by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), 55 per cent of retailers said sales were up compared to this time last year. Only 13 per cent said that sales had fallen. And confidence is returning to the [...]
INTEL UNVEILS ULTRA-THIN NOTEBOOK May 31, 2011 INTEL yesterday invented a category of ultra-thin, affordable notebooks. They will be powered by its second generation Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors, as the firm looks to take on Apple chipmaker ARM in the portable computing stakes. Intel plans to price the devices – which it is calling the Ultrabook – at under $1,000 [...]
CITY VIEWS: WILL RETAILERS HAVE A BETTER CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR ? November 15, 2010 ALEX READ | BDB BROKERS “I definitely think people will be worried about what they spend this year and will decide to cut back. People usually get into debt to pay for Christmas and worry about it in January, but I think people will try and avoid that this year.” LUKE GARRATT | DWF SOLICITORS [...]