The world’s biggest giant bee, which is as long as an adult’s thumb was found on North Moluccas, a little-explored Indonesian island. Known as Wallace’s giant bee, the insect is named after the British naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace, who described it in 1858. Although scientists found several specimens in 1981, it has not…
Month: February 2019
On the Basis of Sex, is a film based on the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruthj Bader Ginsburg played by Felicity Jones, the only British actor on the set to get into character. Ruth Ginsburg felt like an outsider as she was in a minority of women going to university, who was discriminated…
Ericsson, Juniper and ECI telecom partnerships will allow it to compete with rivals such as Nokia and Huawei. Over the past two year Ericsson has sharpened its workforce to save over $1billion in costs. Cisco has teamed with Samsung while Verizon teams up with Apple and Google on 5G streaming. Although Ericsson formed a…
Borje Ekholm, Ericsson CEO said “ Huawei tensions had caused paralysis among European operators as right now we are at risk of focusing on only one question. All our customers are trying to work out what this means and that is causing uncertainty.” Last week, the GSMA, the mobile industry trade body had issued a…
Debra Perelman (44) has been appointed the first female Chief Executive Officer of Revlon, a company owned by her billionaire father Ronald Perelman. Debra Perelman who has worked at Revlon for the past 20 years was appointed Chief Operating Office in January. “I am honoured and humbled, it’s a good time for the company to…
Angelica Keiskei Koidzumi known also as ashitaba which translates as “ Tomorrow’s leaf, which has been a staple diet of Samurai for millennia and has rejuvenating properties that if a leaf is cut off in the morning it will start to grow back by the following day, could be the secret to slowing down ageing…
German fashion Designer and creative director for Chanel and Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld had died aged 85 in Paris. Karl Otto Lagerfeldt born in 1933 in pre-war Germany and emigrated to Paris as a young teenager and became a design assistant for Pierre Balmain, before working at Fendi and Chloe in the 1960s and began his…
Facebook is developing its own artificial intelligence chips and create their own digital assistant able to carry on “common sense” conversations and the tools to monitor social media content in real tine and to compete with Alexa of Amazon and Hey Google. “Facebook’s digital assistant imbued with enough common sense to converse with a person …
Flybe the UK regional airline’s sale for 1p a share to Three-group consortium and will be called Connect Airways, was “an insult to the aviation industry” according to Andrew Tinkler, the company’s second-biggest investor who bought a 12 per cent stake in Flybe in January. Mr Tinkler said Flybe’s problem was cash flow rather than…
PwC, the Accountancy giant has considered resigning as auditor and adviser to Ineos the petrochemical empire over an ambitious tax-avoidance plan being put together by its three most senior executives according to The Sunday Times. Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the founder of Ineos and Britain’s richest person with an estimated fortune of £21bn, and his lieutenants…