Ebola.com on sale for $150,000 by pair who invest in disaster domain names October 14, 2014 Business partners Jon Schultz and Chris Hood are selling Ebola.com for $150,000, after purchasing it for an undisclosed sum in 2008. The Ebola outbreak currently gripping West Africa has killed over 4,000 people since it began in Guinea in February, according to estimates by the World Health Organisation (WHO). While there is currently [...]
The best places in London to gorge on grouse August 12, 2014 Boisdale Boisdale (Canary Wharf, Bishopsgate and Belgravia) will be serving a young roasted Berwickshire grouse from tonight. From 18 August you can get the bird with game chips, and a 175ml glass of Pinot Noir for £26.50. Visit boisdale.co.uk and quote “Grouse Offer”. The Jugged Hare Traditional City eatery The Jugged Hare is kicking [...]
Phones 4u: When a brand dies, let the tweets flow September 26, 2014 When a brand pops its clogs, what should happen to its social media presence? This month’s collapse of mobile retailer Phones 4u shows one thing for sure – brand owners should not simply give up on their profiles. When a company dies, its potential in the afterlife does not. Every Twitter account has [...]
Dish of the Day: Learn how to make Chicken Shop chicken at home July 8, 2014 Learn how to cook a bird like Ronnie Bonetti, the mastermind behind Soho House's food "WHEN Soho House decided to open a Chicken Shop, the owner Nick Jones asked me to make him the best chicken in London. I went into kebab shops, fried chicken shops, I tried supermarket rotisserie chicken and I [...]
Okinawa: Japan, but not as you know it February 22, 2015 Everyone who is serious about travel should have their Alex Garland destination; somewhere you can casually name-drop at dinner parties, safe in the knowledge that nobody else will have been. Garland immortalised – and doomed – Thailand’s then-pristine Koh Phangan when he wrote about it in his novel The Beach. That was in 1996, just [...]
Canary Wharf’s shopping malls boost Songbird Estates September 18, 2014 Songbird Estates, the listed property giant behind London’s Canary Wharf Group, said the value of its shopping centres had reached a record £1bn in the first half of the year as the company pushed ahead with a new mall above its planned Crossrail station. The company is building 115,000 square feet of retail [...]
Becoming Steve Jobs: The new biography by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli March 22, 2015 How much do you know about Steve Jobs? You recognise the custom-made black turtle necks. You probably know that, as well as co-founding Apple, he also founded NeXT and co-founded Pixar. And you may remember his death from pancreatic cancer in 2011. The authorised biography by Walter Isaacson, published the same year, gave a fact-heavy [...]
Playing sport boosts your chances in the City by improving your teamworking skills November 6, 2014 Playing rugby can help to improve your teamwork skills and demonstrate discipline. A huge opportunity is on its way. News that ITV is bumping some of its major shows in favour of rugby World Cup matches next year is an indication of the chance to create a real legacy for the sport. The potential [...]
Lenders give Birds Eye owner Iglo more space on its debts December 15, 2013 IGLO’S lenders have relaxed the terms of one its loan covenants, giving the frozen-food maker more headroom as its new chief executive Elio Leoni Sceti looks to carry out ambitious growth strategy for the group. A source close to the company behind the Birds Eye brand said lenders had reset one loan covenant last week [...]
Twitpic shutdown: The companies that could be vulnerable to Twitter’s trademark clampdown September 5, 2014 Is Twitter getting twitchy? Picture sharing site Twitpic has revealed it is shutting down to avoid being embroiled in a costly trademark dispute with the social media giant – and it's not the first one to have done so. According to Twitpic founder Noah Everett, the Silicon Valley corporation contacted Twitpic's legal team “demanding we [...]