Briatore key in Ecclestone’s hope of £100m R’s sale April 26, 2011 FORMULA ONE supremo Bernie Ecclestone admits his hopes of selling his stake in Premier League bound Queens Park Rangers for £100m rest on the ambitions of former shareholder Flavio Briatore. Suggestions Ecclestone may pull out of QPR, who need one more point from their remaining two fixtures to rubber stamp their return to England’s top [...]
Fifa chief Blatter’s Domingo tactic is a wander into Alan Partridge territory June 7, 2011 IN the hit TV show, as Alan Partridge becomes increasingly desperate, his pleas for a second series laughed off by smug TV executives, his suggestions for new programmes become more and more ludicrous. “Arm-wrestling with Chas and Dave?” Partridge offers apologetically, inviting derision. “Youth hostelling with Chris Eubank?” he whimpers, before the piece de resistance: “Monkey [...]
Businesses must back our campaign June 28, 2011 BRITAIN faces a huge challenge. Innumeracy and financial illiteracy are rife in this country, in an appalling indictment of years of failed educational policies. Tragically, millions of people are unable to grasp fully even the most basic of financial products, such as mortgages or savings accounts. In an era when self-reliance and financial independence are [...]
Lambert quits regulator role May 12, 2011 SIR RICHARD Lambert, the former director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, has walked away from his new role with Britain’s top financial policy unit – before he’s even had his first meeting. Sir Richard quit the new Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of England yesterday. He had been viewed as a key high-profile [...]
Police consider Huhne claims May 15, 2011 POLICE will this week decide whether to launch an investigation into claims that Chris Huhne asked someone else to take his penalty points for a speeding offence in 2003. Backbench Labour MP Simon Danczuk has lodged a formal police complaint over the allegations, after two Sunday newspapers claimed to have heard a tape recording in [...]
MacKenzie makes online sports move May 12, 2011 TALKSPORT founder Kelvin MacKenzie is preparing to go head to head with the commercial radio business he sold to UTV Media for £92m in 2005 by launching an online sports TV channel, Sports Tonight. MacKenzie (pictured), who pitches the web TV channel as “Sky Sports News meets TalkSport”, is soft-launching the venture with an estimated [...]
BUSINESS OF THE YEAR June 29, 2011 MICROCHIPS, miners and media – not to mention Man and the master of temporary power supplies Aggreko. This year’s shortlist for Business of the Year crosses sectors, but the finalists share ambition, innovation and bold decision-taking. Old and new, none are resting on their laurels or copying the past: all are looking to the future. [...]
Steve Jobs to return to the Apple stage May 31, 2011 APPLE chief executive Steve Jobs, who spent months on medical leave, will open an annual developers’ conference next week showcasing the iPad maker’s latest computer software and a new cloud computing service. Apple’s shares rose 3.1 per cent to $347.83 after it said yesterday that Jobs, along with a team of executives, will deliver the [...]
Steve Jobs to return to the Apple stage May 31, 2011 APPLE chief executive Steve Jobs, who spent months on medical leave, will open an annual developers’ conference next week showcasing the iPad maker’s latest computer software and a new cloud computing service. Apple’s shares rose 3.1 per cent to $347.83 after it said yesterday that Jobs, along with a team of executives, will deliver the [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING May 19, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES MOVE TO QUASH HERMÈS’ POISON PILL Minority shareholders in Hermès have sought to quash the luxury goods group’s poison pill defences devised by its controlling family, potentially bolstering LVMH’s protracted takeover push for its smaller rival. CHINESE SET A NEW STANDARD IN BUYING GOLD China overtook India to become the largest market for [...]