£15,000 NFT purchase for access to private members’ club in the City July 11, 2022 by Eliot Wilson Lockdown was a tough time for private members’ clubs. After all, if your business model is posited on people meeting face-to-face in a physical location, social distancing is social death. Some managed to adapt: the Ivy Club offered online events for members, while the Ned dispatched cocktails to the homes of its [...]
Just Eat and Amazon team up on takeaways in U.S. July 6, 2022 Takeaway giant Just Eat and Amazon have launched a new partnership today to give Amazon Prime members access to free deliveries on order in its U.S. unit Grubhub.
British Gas owner Centrica begins dividend balancing act amid record household energy bills July 3, 2022 British Gas owner Centrica is expected to confirm its post-pandemic rebound with mega profits in its upcoming half-year results last this month.
Buyer beware! The metrics suggest Bitcoin could drop even further June 30, 2022 Crypto AM columnist Dr Chris Kacher warns that, despite Bitcoin's current downturn, there may be further to fall.
Jurassic Park’s sound designer reveals the secret sounds of the dinosaurs June 17, 2022 For sound designer Al Nelson, jobs don’t come much bigger than Jurassic Park. When the technician started out in the industry in the late nineties, one of his first big jobs was The Lost World, Steven Spielberg’s follow-up to Jurassic Park, the film which birthed the seismic dinosaur franchise. In the 25 years since, Nelson [...]
Lightyear review: Enjoyably nostalgic flight from the past June 17, 2022 Just when you thought Hollywood couldn’t find a new way to rehash old material, here comes a new category of film entirely. Lightyear is a spin-off of Toy Story, but one that imagines Buzz Lightyear as a real person. As the film explains in its opening moments, this is the movie that the toy was [...]
Sorry Zuckerberg: UK competition watchdog gets green light for majority of Meta Giphy merger probe June 14, 2022 The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has backed the majority of the UK competition watchdog's probe into Meta's merger with Giphy, causing a mighty blow for the Facebook owner's team.
Truck makers ‘cartel’ to face landmark £2bn opt-in lawsuit over decade long price fixing scheme June 9, 2022 A UK competition tribunal has given a trucking industry trade body the green light to bring forward a more than £2bn opt-in claim against a “cartel” of European truck makers, over allegations they fixed the prices of lorries for more than a decade. The UK’s Road Haulage Association (RHA) trade body’s claim is set to [...]
Londoners face more disruption as new tube strike is confirmed for 21 June June 8, 2022 Londoners will need to brace themselves for more disruption as the RMT union has announced that 10,000 of its tube workers will walk out on 21 June. RMT members working for London Underground cited a dispute over pensions and job losses as the main reason behind the walkout. The strike is the latest disruption to [...]
Union announces three-day rail strike at end of June June 7, 2022 The RMT union announced that its anticipated rail strike will take place over three days at the end of the month. Tens of thousands of railway workers will walk out on 21, 23 and 25 June following failed negotiations with Network Rail and 13 other operators. The union announced that London Underground workers will strike [...]