Keep an eye on all your friends, and lots more too November 24, 2010 WE’RE well into the festive drinking season and mobile social media could help you crash all the right places. They say that Smartphones give you social networks on the go. So you can keep tabs on all your friends (and enemies) as they move from bar to bar. They don’t tell you what a pain [...]
Redknapp: No Bale sale even for £30m November 3, 2010 TOTTENHAM manager Harry Redknapp has warned Gareth Bale’s heavyweight European suitors: look but don’t touch. Bale’s latest one-man demolition of reigning European Champions Inter Milan has sent the Italian media into overdrive. The likes of Real Madrid, Manchester United and Inter have already been touted as potential destinations for the winger. But with Spurs likely [...]
Rio Tinto in £2.2bn move for Riversdale December 6, 2010 Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto made a $3.5bn (£2.2bn) bid approach for Africa-focussed Riversdale Mining, sending the target firm’s shares surging 16 per cent and setting up a potential takeover battle. Rio’s move on Australia’s Riversdale is likely to spark a bidding war, as the company has hard coking-coal projects in Mozambique that could eventually supply [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING November 7, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES DHL CHIEF PROMISES ACTION OVER BOMB FEARS The head of one of the three big air-express companies has reacted to the parcel bombs sent from Yemen and Greece by pledging better screening of customers and packages before they reach airports. “What we need to do is improve surveillance at the pick-up point, have [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING December 9, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES BP DELAYS LIBYA DEEP WATER PLAN BP has delayed its plans to explore in the deep water off the coast of Libya until next year after deciding not to use its original drilling rig “for operational reasons”. The UK oil group said that it was still in the process of ensuring any safety [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING December 9, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES BP DELAYS LIBYA DEEP WATER PLAN BP has delayed its plans to explore in the deep water off the coast of Libya until next year after deciding not to use its original drilling rig “for operational reasons”. The UK oil group said that it was still in the process of ensuring any safety [...]
ANTONIO HORTA-OSORIO: MY WIFE MADE ME TAKE UP LLOYDS BANNER December 12, 2010 CITY bankers were shocked last month when Santander UK boss Antonio Horta-Osorio jumped ship to be parachuted into the throne of Lloyds, replacing outgoing chief executive Eric Daniels. “How could he do it?” the City wanted to know. “What possessed him?” What, indeed? The high-flying Portuguese charmer had to throw in 17 years’ worth of [...]
Broadcasting offers traders the chance for a big challenge October 25, 2010 UK BROADCAST media has seen its earnings growth increase by 50 per cent this year. This outperforms other areas of the sector that have experienced steady, if unspectacular, growth. With the sector rated as undervalued by Numis and the industry experiencing rapid changes, taking a punt on the prospects for one of the big players [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING December 12, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES CREDIT SUISSE TO ISSUE COCOS EARLY Credit Suisse’s chief executive said he hoped to begin issuing billions of dollars in contingent-capital bonds in the next year to help shore up the bank’s financial strength well ahead of new Swiss regulations. Brady Dougan also defended Credit Suisse’s decision to award one-off payments to about [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING December 12, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES CREDIT SUISSE TO ISSUE COCOS EARLY Credit Suisse’s chief executive said he hoped to begin issuing billions of dollars in contingent-capital bonds in the next year to help shore up the bank’s financial strength well ahead of new Swiss regulations. Brady Dougan also defended Credit Suisse’s decision to award one-off payments to about [...]