Singapore-based Broadcom has offered to pay US chipmaker Qualcomm £5.76bn ($8bn) if regulators block its £105bn ($146bn) takeover bid for the company, which could be the second biggest break fee in history. The $8bn fee represents about 6.6 per cent of the deal’s $121bn equity value. Qualcomm’s decision to give Hock Tan, the acquisitive chief…
Simon Fox, CEO of Trinity Mirror, the owner of Mirror newspaper group has bought Daily Express, Daily Star, OK magazine for £200m from Richard Desmond. Trinity Mirror paid £126.7m for Brexit supporting newspaper titles. The company also agreed to invest £70.4m in staff pension schemes through to 2027. The company’s shares surged 15% in early…
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 shook Taiwan’s east coast. The worst hit building was the Marshal Hotel in the port city of Hualien, which partly crumpled and was left slanting on its side. Rescuers on cranes attempted to free people from its upper floors. Over 200 others have been injured. Four other buildings…
The world’s most powerful rocket the Falcon Heavy, lifts off on an historic maiden flight, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. US entrepreneur and The SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s mammoth vehicle billed as a risky test flight, designed to deliver a minimum payload to low-earth orbit of 64 tonnes – equivalent of putting five London…
According to Catherine Price, a science journalist and author and her essays have appeared in The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times and Popular Science, we have fallen headlong into our relationship with phones without taking time to think about our behaviour. So before doing ourselves more damage, we should follow a 30-day…
According to Prof Junji Fukuda of Yokohama National University, a Japanese scientist “Dimethylpolysiloxane found in silicone which is added to oil to cook McDonald’s chips, they were able to produce follicles which could sprout human hair. Silicone is usually added to fries to prevent the oil bubbling and spitting. When the cells were cultured in…
Facebook has filed a patent for a technology to automatically detect user’s economic status by collecting users’ personal data including their internet usage, home ownership and education. The patent also suggested ab algorithm which may improve Facebook’s advertisement targeting capabilities. Facebook would ask users about their travel history, geo-tagging and devices the user owns and…
Dan Middleton also known as DanTDM, a 26-year-old from Aldershot, started off making videos of himself playing Minecraft and Pokeman. Little he did know then, he got more than 16 million subscribers and has more than 10 billion views of all his videos. Although he did not feature in the top ten list last year,…