Glencore- the world’s biggest producer and trader of zinc, a metal used for rustproof steel in products from cars to building materials, decided to slash zinc output by a third sparked a Zinc rally by 12 per cent to £1, 219,$1,875 and other metal prices and mining shares especially copper by 3 per cent to…
Apple has pulled the first app to allow iPhone users to block advertisements in mobile apps. Been Choice, an ad blocker ad was launched in the US this month, which will eliminate ads only within the web browsers. Apple raised customer security concerns related to the way the apps intercepted user’s internet traffic especially Been…
Google who owns the world best algorithm for searching information on the internet, and a bet on the future of self-driving cars bought the abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com from BMW who used the domain name for its fleet of services unit. Google will now use the domain for their reinvention to a conglomerate called Alphabet according to domain…
Sony is eyeing the sale of its stake in the music publishing business and net £655 million ( $1billion). It co-owns with the estate of King of Pop legend Michael Jackson. Sony Co-owns the rights to most of the Beatle’s songs, Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, Calvin Harris and Marvin Gaye. Sony, the world’s biggest music…
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin told the Tory party conference that he wanted Crossrail chariman Terry Morgan to help launch 30,000 apprenticeships by 2020. Young engineers of London could get a chance to tour 73 miles Crossrail tunnels £15billion rail route, deep under the capital in a plan to see British Engineering expertise at its very…
The sale of Formula One, to a US-Qatari consortium for $8.5bn is in its final stages. Stephen Ross, 75 year old owner of the Miami Dolphins American football team is heading the consortium, and CVC the private equity group which owns 35.5 per cent of F1, negotiations have concluded. Bernie Ecclestone F1’s 84 year old…
84 year old Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch wrote today on Twitter “Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black president who can properly address the racial divide?” He later recommended a magazine article on whether Obama had done enough to address the “racial divide” referred to in his Tweet. Mr Carson has…
LinkedIn has agreed to pay £8.45m $13m to users to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing it of sending too many unsolicited emails to users. LinkedIn’s “add connections” feature, which lets users import their personal contacts into the social network (the notorious subject line “I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn”). If…
Smokers often has a cigarette but no match to light it. After eight years of tests, Cigamatic, a Marseille company set up by entrepreneur Charli Abisdid, has come up with a safe and more effective self-lighting cigarette invention. The technology involves the smoker breaking off a capsule fitted to the inhalation end of the cigarette.…
Snapchat, the Social media giant is launching a new advertising campaign known as “Sponsored Lenses” to be unveiled on Halloween. This follows the introduction of the “Lenses” feature, allowing users to add special effects to the pictures they share. Snapchat, a video messaging application, was started by Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel as a project for…