30-year Anniversary of the World Wide Web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web in 1989,  unified the world’s largest physics laboratory, CERN, was a stockpile of ideas and information stored on multiple incompatible computers and linked information across different computers and platforms. His Proposal in March 1989 called “ Information Management : A Proposal”. By 1991 his vision of…

Flybe Shares take a dive after controversial £2.8m sale

Value of the Flybe Shares were down 16 per cent, after shareholders approved its acquisition by Virgin-led consortium Connect Airways. 63  per cent of the shareholders voted with the board’s recommendation that they approve the sale, with 37 per cent staging  a revolt at the general meeting. Flybe has been urging the shareholders to accept…

Digital advertising boom as Ads to spend  £15bn this year

Digital Advertising spend will enjoy double figure growth as the industry moves away from traditional media formats according to latest forecasts by Barclays Corporate Banking. The digital with out-of-home advertising earmarked as key area of transformation after Digital OOH surpassed traditional outdoor for the first time last year. According to Sean Duffy Head of TMT…

Newmont directors reject £14bn hostile offer from Barrick.

Gary Goldberg CEO of Newmont has hit out at Barrick Gold’s management for its lack of global inexperience as his company rejected the miner’s £14bn ($18bn) offer. The takeover bid came months after Barrick completed its $6bn acquisition of Randgold Resources, installing Randgold’s CEO Mark Bristow as head of combined firm. The bid if successful…

Geneva Motor show

The Geneva International Motor Show, in Switzerland opens this week, at a time when manufacturers increasingly  wary of spending cash on big set-piece event,  as traditional motor shows seem to be in decline, with electrification the dominant theme. Mercedes and Audi who are in the process of developing whole new electric ranges will both have…

Scottish beautician vlogger attracts millions in Instagram and YouTube

Jamie Genevieve (25) an authentic Scottish social media blogger and make-up artist from Clackmannansire who a knack of pulling millions of view for her make-up tutorials. In the last four years she achieved over 1 million followers on Instagram and 750, 000 YouTube subscribers. She started her career as a beauty counter assistant and simplicity…

Zscaler cyber security firm lifts. Jay Chaudhry to billionaire

Jay Chaudhry, who in the past lived in a Himalayan village, without even clean running water, has become a billionaire after his US-based information security firm Zscaler is valued at £2.58bn ($3.4bn). With the advent of cloud-based computing, several companies are tethering more and more for their business to online networks. Chaudhry is now part…

Grievances of marginalised people

  Why young people join terrorist organisations like Isis? Bhutto reveals the plight of poor and downtrodden in Pakistan and England. How does it feel to be told you’re worthless by society and locked out of the opportunities afforded to a privileged few? Her topical novel released amid the controversy surrounding Shamima Begum, the teenager…

Can AI be creative

The creative code examines the nature of creativity, and provide essential guide into how algorithms work with the underpinning mathematical rules and looks at our emotional response to art is a product of our brains reacting to pattern and structure. Computer have already become far smarter than us at crunching big numbers, spotting patterns in…

Foxtons reports £17.2m loss

  Worries over Brexit and sales slowdown in London’s housing market has hit Estate agent Foxtons by £17.2m loss down from a £6.5m profit in 2017, as revenues dropped 5 per cent  to £111.5m since listing six years ago. Nic Budden, CEO said “ 2018 was really challenging year for the sector, as the sales…