LinkedIn has bought Carpinteria, California, US leading online learning business Lynda (founded in 1995) for $1.5bn (£1.1bn), making it the professional networking site’s biggest acquisition to date. Lynda helps anyone to learn business software, coding to business skills, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals, also provides German, French and Spanish language…
Finding real love is not easy—just being beautiful or attractive is not enough, but is it even mathematically likely? Mathematician Hannah Fry shows patterns in how we look for love, and gives her top three tips (verified by maths) for finding that special someone. Complicated love patterns can be discovered by Mathematics pattern. Mathematics is…
Oil reserves worth £600bn at current price have been discoveres at Horse Hill near Gatwick airport, and analaysi suggests local area could hold 158m barrels of oil per square mile, of which only 100 billion barrels could be recovered according to exploration firm UK Oil & Gas Investments (UKOG). The North Sea has produced about…
Burger King will pay the wedding expenses for a young Illinois couple named Joel Burger and Ashley King, whose children will carry forward in their last names the ‘lineage’ of the multinational fast-food chain, media reported. Burger, 24, and King, 23, accepted the offer of the Miami-based fast-food chain to sponsor their wedding on July…
Former Australian Cricket captain, influential cricketer, Journalist broadcaster and commentator, Richard (Richie) Benaud, known as the ‘voice of cricket’ to fans around the world, born 6th October 1930, has died aged 84 in his sleep, on Friday 10th April 2015, after a battle with skin cancer and also suffered serious injury in a car accident…
Authentic food in city centres is often hard to find. Indian curries can taste mundane and predicatable to some extent wherever you go, and that is why it is is a delight to find you can in fact eat exciting Indian food in London without going out of town to East or West Ham for…
Today 8th April 2015, begins the start of the eighth edition of the Indian Premier League, the most watched and most lucrative of the Twenty 20 domestic competitions. The Kolkata Knight Riders begin IPL 8 as defending champions after beating Kings XI Punjab in a thrilling final last June. And Kolkata have retained their…
Recent tumbling oil prices have encouraged petroleum giant Royal Dutch Shell PLC and BG Group PLC, Britain’s third largest energy company are “in advanced discussions” over a possible merger, in what could be one of the mega deals of 2015. Their mega-fusion could produce a company with a combined market capitalisation of more than £200bn…
There’s no such thing as free lunch — especially when it comes to smartphone apps! ‘Apps with ads take up an average of 48 percent more CPU time — 22 percent more memory use and 56 percent greater CPU utilisation,’ explained co-researcher and part of a new study team, Indian-American engineer Meiyappan Nagappan from Rochester…
A Mensa member, Devita Saraf, CEO Vu Technologies and Executive Director, Zenith Computers, started introducing “luxury in technology” to the Indian market, in 2005, and displayed her acumen and ability to target people with acute interest in luxury products even though these people have in the past searched for similar items in the internet. After…