Sony is eyeing the sale of its stake in the music publishing business and net £655 million ( $1billion). It co-owns with the estate of King of Pop legend Michael Jackson. Sony Co-owns the rights to most of the Beatle’s songs, Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, Calvin Harris and Marvin Gaye. Sony, the world’s biggest music…
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin told the Tory party conference that he wanted Crossrail chariman Terry Morgan to help launch 30,000 apprenticeships by 2020. Young engineers of London could get a chance to tour 73 miles Crossrail tunnels £15billion rail route, deep under the capital in a plan to see British Engineering expertise at its very…
The sale of Formula One, to a US-Qatari consortium for $8.5bn is in its final stages. Stephen Ross, 75 year old owner of the Miami Dolphins American football team is heading the consortium, and CVC the private equity group which owns 35.5 per cent of F1, negotiations have concluded. Bernie Ecclestone F1’s 84 year old…
84 year old Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch wrote today on Twitter “Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black president who can properly address the racial divide?” He later recommended a magazine article on whether Obama had done enough to address the “racial divide” referred to in his Tweet. Mr Carson has…
LinkedIn has agreed to pay £8.45m $13m to users to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing it of sending too many unsolicited emails to users. LinkedIn’s “add connections” feature, which lets users import their personal contacts into the social network (the notorious subject line “I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn”). If…
Smokers often has a cigarette but no match to light it. After eight years of tests, Cigamatic, a Marseille company set up by entrepreneur Charli Abisdid, has come up with a safe and more effective self-lighting cigarette invention. The technology involves the smoker breaking off a capsule fitted to the inhalation end of the cigarette.…
Snapchat, the Social media giant is launching a new advertising campaign known as “Sponsored Lenses” to be unveiled on Halloween. This follows the introduction of the “Lenses” feature, allowing users to add special effects to the pictures they share. Snapchat, a video messaging application, was started by Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel as a project for…
A Brazilian audit Federal Accounts Court has ruled that President Dilma Rousseff broke the law in managing last year’s budget, as their investigation revealed that the government borrowed money illegally from state banks to make up for budget shortfalls. The Minister who handled the case in the Accounts Court, Augusto Nardes, stated the government disregarded…
All exhibitions which portray the wonderful fine artistry and breathtaking use of colours familiar to many of the Indian fabrics and designs we are partly familiar with worldwide is warmly welcomed. So it is with happiness that we can report on the Fabric of India Exhibition now at London’s V and A Museum until January…
The village of Sonning is featuring a lot in the news at the moment. Firstly George Clooney and his wife Amal have a residence there and secondly Uri Geller (originally Israeli) is moving out and has left a huge 5 ft sculpture of a bent spoon (pictured above) to the village as a parting gesture,…