Goal for BT as BSkyB loses sports channel legal battle November 5, 2014 BSkyB will be forced to offer its sports channels to BT's YouView customers after it lost a legal battle with its new rival. The UK Competition Appeals Tribunal ruled today that rules which determine what price Sky must offer its channels at should also cover internet television services. Until now, the broadcaster has resisted providing [...]
BT scores key win in battle for Sky Sports November 5, 2014 Britain’s largest pay TV broadcaster BSkyB was left bruised yesterday after a UK court ruled that it must make its flagship sports channels available to its biggest rival, a measure it had resisted for four years. The interim ruling is the latest episode in a four-year legal saga stretching back to an era when Sky [...]
Ladies who don’t lunch: Sue Round talks fund management, sentimentality and being broke March 26, 2015 Buongiorno signora!” bellows the exuberant waiter at Bolton’s, an Italian tucked away in an unassuming corner near Leadenhall Market. “Hello, hellooo” comes the response. I know Sue Round has arrived, even before I see her. She greets me warmly, as if we’ve known each other for years. In fact, I’ve met Sue only once before [...]
Next generation: top five British painters to watch November 23, 2014 Gillian Carnegie With her black and white paintings of cats, bottoms, stairs and flowers, Camberwell graduate Gillian Carnegie turns hum-drum domesticity into scenes of elegiac beauty. Catherine Storey Conceptual painter Catherine Storey contrives connections between hollywood and the artistic movements of the twentieth century with abstracted paintings of early film equipment. Dexter Dalwood Dexter Dalwood [...]
More Greek tragedies, plus another excuse to break the internet: What got us talking this week February 20, 2015 Greece was still the word The cat-and-mouse game between Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and his German counterpart, Wolfgang Schaeuble, had everyone guessing. The result? At the time of writing, the Eurogroup was still in negotiations. In the meantime, we've been trying to work out exactly what Varoufakis' leather jacket means, who Greece actually owes, [...]
Magpies extend winning streak November 9, 2014 NEWCASTLE won 2-0 at West Brom yesterday to record their fourth straight Premier League win and climb to eighth in the table. Striker Ayoze Perez’s backheeled finish and defender Fabricio Coloccini’s full-blooded header, both from Daryl Janmaat deliveries, earned the Magpies’ fifth consecutive victory in all competitions. Everton defender Leighton Baines converted a penalty as [...]
PetSmart sold to BC Partners in $8.7bn deal December 14, 2014 UK investor BC Partners last night beat larger US rivals to clinch the world’s biggest private equity takeover this year, striking a $8.7bn (£5.5bn) deal to land pet retailer PetSmart. BC, the former owner of big brand UK firms such as Foxtons and the defunct Phones4U, will pay $83 per share alongside a team of [...]
JP Morgan chief executive Jamie Dimon is “clear of cancer” December 5, 2014 JP Morgan boss Jame Dimon has told employees he is clear of throat cancer. In an internal memo sent to staff, the 58-year-old boss of the US' largest bank said there was "no evidence of cancer left in my body" after CAT and PET scans three months after treatment. The good news is that the [...]
Aguero sparks comeback as win keeps pressure on Blues December 3, 2014 REIGNING champions Manchester City exorcised their Stadium of Light demons by recording a third straight Premier League win courtesy of a Sergio Aguero-inspired comeback against Sunderland last night. City have lost 1-0 on each of their last four visits to Sunderland and, buoyed by their stalemate with top of the table Chelsea at the weekend, [...]
Apple’s $700bn smash, Black Friday misery: 10 things we learned this week November 28, 2014 1. In the future, cats will change colour when they go near radiation (maybe). Someone’s already written a nursery rhyme about it 2. Londoners take “painting the town red” rather more literally than you might think: by a vast majority, they prefer red wine to any other type, reckons Naked Wines 3. Aviva [...]