Google’s UK tax bill

Google was charged £36.4m in UK corporation tax last year. The Search engine giant recorded sales of £1.03bn and a pre-tax profit of £149, in the UK for the 12 months to the end of June 2016 according to its latest accounts. Google also revealed that they have hired an extra 600 workers to take…

Entrepreneur’s aviation history gets a window of opportunity

  Behold the entrepreneur, he is the crakerjack,  a modern day enigma, Amol Yadav (41), an ex-pilot of Jet Airways in India, assembled a six-seater aircraft on the terrace of his three-bedroom flat in Charkop,  Kandivali  West, Mumbai India, has been given a window of opportunity to display his creation at the Make in India…

Amazon buys Souq.com

Amazon buys Arab world’s biggest e-commerce platform Souq.com, which is valued at over $1bn after it raised $275m from investors last year. Russ Grandinetti, Amazon Senior vice President said “We have been serving customers in the Middle East for many years, but Souq will allows to do it in a way that it takes it…

Brexit Article 50 triggered

Britain triggered Article 50, “an historic moment from which there can be no turning back” Theresa May has aid about departure from the EU. “ I choose to believe in Britain and that our best days lie ahead” Prime Minister Theresa May said speaking after Britain’s EU ambassador formally triggered the two year exit process…

How China ended Western domination

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited history museum in Beijing that surveyed the foreign abuses beginning with opium wars before moving to glories of “New China” and the “reform and opening up” post-Mao Zedong’s death, that created the world’s second- largest economy. He said: “In my view to realise the great renewal of the Chinese nation…

Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari wins the opening Australian GP

Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari beat Lewis Hamilton Mercedes to victory in the opening-season F1 2017 Australian GP. Vettel drove cleverly and perfectly to claim the Scuderia’s first victory since 2015, with the newly inspired strategy combined with the new Ferrari car. “It’s a great relief for everyone, and this is just the beginning said Vettel.…

Train run through block of flats

In Chongqing, China,  home to  8.5m people, a light railway track has been designed to run directly through a hole in a 19-storey block of flats, between floors six and eight. The building has been acoustically insulated which does not allow any sound louder than a working dishwasher, as the train only generates 60 decibels.…

5 killed and 40 injured in Terror attack at Westminster

Five people were killed and 40 injured in London on 22nd March 2017, Wednesday afternoon, as a car Huyndai ploughed into pedestrians and the crashed into the barriers of Houses of Parliament. The attacker drove on the pavement on Westminster Bridge, as a woman fell into the River Thames.The driver wielding a  knife fatally stabbed…

Apple launches Clips

Apple has launched Clips, a new free app for adding filters and special effects to photos and videos in iPhones and iPads and could become a major player in the emerging augmented reality (AR). Clips is a simple editing tool like Snapchat’s selfie lenses and Instagram’s Prisma, which can manipulate photos and videos incorporating music from…

Funnel web spider venom for treating stroke

Scientists from the University of Queensland and Monash University found a protein in spider venom may help protect the brain from injury after a stroke, after lab test the Hi1A protein single dose worked on rats. They travelled to Fraser Island in Australia to hunt and capture three potentially lethal Australian funnel web spiders. “…