Great Britain have won the Davis Cup for the first times in 79 years, since 1936, after Andy Murray beat David Goffin of Belgium to take an unassailable 3-1 lead in Ghent. Andy Murray 28, won 6-3 7-5 6-3 , as he won 11 of the 21 points during Britain’s first successful campaign. Britain have…
Each episode of the new Versailles drama cost twice as much as filming for Downton and it is a French period drama, in spoken English set in the world of lust, power and betrayal regarding a young Louis XIV created by Helen Mirren’s nephew, Simon and creator of TV series Spooks, David Wolstencroft but clearly…
Heard of Li-fi, a novel way of delivering data faster, by using the visible spectrum instead of radio waves, using a standard LED bluh, an internet connection and a photo detector, tested by Estonian start-up Velmenni in Tallinn. Li-fi can deliver internet access 100 times faster than traditional wi-fi , exceeding speeds of 1Gbps (gigabit…
Sanjeev Gupta, Liberty’s chief executive, who founded the business while he was a student at Cambridge University, has vision of merging his hot-rolled coil business and Tubular Solutions. 350 industrial jobs have been saved after the collapse of Lord Paul’s Caparo steel empire. The Gupta family has agreed to buy Caparo Tubular Solutions, a West…
Radon Rn⁶ is another little known invisible gas that kills 27 times more people than Carbon Monoxide, causing the deaths of 1, 100 people a year in the UK alone. Radon is a radioactive, odourless, colourless gas that is naturally present throughout UK and in other countries across the globe as well, naturally emitted in…
On 18 September 2014, Cuddlr was officially launched in the Apple App Store, as a free app. The tagline, for the App “Great things start with a hug”, the app touted itself as “a location-based social-meeting app just for cuddling”. According to the website: “It’s a way of finding people near you who are…
Dublin based Allergan, the Botox-maker has been taken over by US drugs giant Pfizer for £106bn ($160bn) in one of the biggest pharmaceuticals deal in history. Allergan shareholders will receive 11.3 shares in the new company for each of their Allergan shares, while Pfizer shareholders will receive one share for each of their shares in…
Marriott International on 16th November 2015, announced a £12.2bn deal to acquire Starwood Hotels & Resorts, which will now create the World’s largest hotel group by number of rooms, covering 1.1million rooms in 5, 500 hotel under their wing, beating rivals like Hyatt Intercontinental and Chinese bidders who were in the past linked to a…
Deutsche Bank is going to introduce mobile phone technology that analyses over 50 different factors to build up a picture of a user form pressure applied to the pinpad to how the phone is held, location, facial recognition and fingerprint and create a profile of the way people touch and handle their devices as a security…
Above – Jude Law – in Spy “Spy” stars Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne and Jude Law in an incredibly well put together spy comedy thriller which will have you laughing at the gags and stunts as well as the sometimes below the belt dialogue so expect that – you have been warned. It’s…