Seventh century’s traditional and famous Murano glass from the Venetian island is world beater located off the shore of Venice, Italy, the lagoon city’s historic and artistic glass factory connecting the historic buildings. Italian artisans are keen to avoid mass-produced generic but produce premium handmade, painstakingly rendered, authentic to get a sense of real…
Over the past five years Silicon Valley the US tech sector has been submerged by stories of sexual harassment and discrimination. Julian Guthrie’s latest book “ Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who took On Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime”, charts the lives of four impressive female businesspeople and investors…
For decades record companies used people’s desire for a tune as licence to print money were facing catastrophe. In April the IFPI – the global body of the recording industry –released its latest annual Global Music Report. For the consecutive year, revenues were up to total of $19.1bn from a low of $14.3bn in…
Samuel Tak Lee who owns 26 per cent of Shaftesbury, which controls strips of prime London properties, including China Town, Carnaby Street, Covent Garden and Langham Estate a 1.3m Sq ft of property near Oxford Street, argues that Shaftesbury’s non-pre-emptive placing was carried out “with a view to diluting his ownership interest and making any…
In line with previous warnings of the consequences of a hard Brexit, Bombardier is looking to dispose its operations in Northern Ireland, where the Canadian Aerospace Group is on the biggest employers with a workforce of 3, 600. During the restructuring their planned disposal includes operations in Morocco, alongside a wider restructuring of its aerospace…
China’s Tencent is going on centre stage for its vision of ethics in artificial intelligence in a break with the company’s traditional reclusive style. It changed it favoured approach to ethics that combined not only socially beneficial use of AI for medical purposes or agriculture but also a social contract between companies and users to…
Apple revisited $1tn valuation on iPhone yesterday as Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief at signs that it has put the worst of the iPhone tumble behind it. The tech had predicted a quicker rebound than expected from a six month revenue slide, caused by weaker iPhone handset sales, especially in China. The…
Four Seasons Britain’s second biggest care home operator appoints administrators to push through a sale in a last-ditch attempt to save a business that cares for 17,000 residents. Terra Firma, The chain’s previous private equity owner which set up two holding companies are in administration and will enable the US hedge fund that seized control…