US private equity, Thomas Bravo has acquired Sophos, a UK cyber security company for £.308m ($3.9bn). Sophos, the FTSE 250 company based in Abingdon near Oxford employs 3, 400 people, specialising in antivirus and encryption produts, based in England, which mainly serves small and medium-sized businesses, is the latest UK company to be acquired by…
On 14th October 2019, Indian singer Dr K J Yesudas was honoured at Houses of Parliament attended by Justice minister Philip MP and Martyn Day MP, Councillor Manu Shahul-Hameed organised by The UK Event Life. Celebrating 50+ years of glorious music the iconic Indian singer Dr KJ Yesudas, performing a multilingual musical feast in Malayalam,…
In the era of Jane Austen only the eldest sons could inherit wealth, and how a single man not in possession of good fortune, will just have to roll up his sleeves and work for his living. Rory Muir reveals the customs of English aristocrats and their bourgeois imitators was to leave all their wealth…
Afghan born Pakistani poetess and writer Fatima Bhutto who studied at Columbia University writes about vast cultural movement emerging from beyond the Western world, displaying truly global in its range and allure, challenging Hollywood, McDonalds and blue jeans. K-Pop from Korea provide universal satisfaction – not merely as entertainment but on an emotional level too.…
Dyson pulls the plug on electric cars. The billionaire businessman had hoped to harness his group’s expertise in battery systems, aerodynamics and high-tech manufacturing to break into a fiercely competitive industry. Weekly meetings of the auto team run by former BMW and Nissan executive Roland Krueger, who joined Dyson in January 2019, reviewed the outlook…
Five years ago Jacques Testard visited Frankfurt Book Fair and acquired the English-language rights for a book by a Ukrainian-born author shunned by mainstream publishers. Little did he know, a year later that £3, 500 investment, the biggest advance paid by his newly formed Fitzcarraldo Publishing House – paid off handsomely when Svetlana Alexievich won…
John Goodenough of the University of Texas in Austin, who is still active in research to lead the development of rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries that power everything mobile phones to laptops and even electric vehicles, at the age of 97. John Goodenough was the oldest laureate in any discipline in the 118-year history of Nobel Prizes,…
Thomas Cook’ 555 shops have been bought by Hayes Travel, the UK’s largest independent travel agent to save 2, 500 jobs. It has already recruited 600 of he collapsed travel group’s former employees and said it had “ further offers outstanding” to others. The deal signed late on Tuesday night, was funded without debt and…
The US is looking at ways to channel money to Huawei’s European rivals, as officials warn that the Chinese company is becoming dangerously dominant in the race for the next generation of mobile communications. The US official have suggested issuing credit to companies such as Nokia and Ericsson to enable them to match financing terms…