Aviation giant Bell, one of the largest manufacturers of commercial and military vertical take-off vehicles has claimed flying taxis may become a reality within the next six years as it showed off vertical take-off and landing “flying car” concept in partnership with Uber Elevate. The Hybrid Nexus is powered by six propellers and would carry…
“Mr Five Per Cent” the godfather of Iraq’s oil industry, Calouste Gulbenkian’s art of negotiation with minutiae of complex legal agreements, and haggling until the breaking point of an opponent’s patience was reached, is in line with his motto “ Check, check, Check”. When he died in 1955, aged 86, he was the world’s richest…
Annabel’s the exclusive London’s Elegant private Members’ Club with starlit dance floor at Mayfair, playground of royalty, film stars and financiers for 56 years from Frank Sinatra to Mick Jagger to The Rolling Stones to Diana, Princes of Wales and even once, the Queen pay it a visit in its heyday. Annabel’s recently refurbished by…
Daniel Kaye, 30, from Egham in Surrey, a British hacker was living in Cyprus when he was hired by an employee at Orange Liberia, Liberian Telecoms company Cellcom for $10, 000 a month to carry out cyber-attacks on its Lonestar, according to National Crime Agency. Daniel Kaye remains at the heart of a…
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars owned by BMW, recorded its highest ever sales last year as wealthy US buyers, buoyed by Donald Trump’s tax cuts splashed out on luxury cars with an annual sale of 4, 107 a rise of 22 per cent after the relaunch of its flagship Phantom and launch of its first sports utility…
Amazon, the online giant was worth $797bn (£634bn) when the US stock market closed on Monday after rising 3.4 per cent and moved past Microsoft valued at $789bn. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is the world’s wealthiest man, with riches of $135 bn according the latest Bloomberg’s billionaire index. Amazon started in 1994, in…
In Zuboff ‘s view Google’s original aim of making all the world’s information accessible mutated into a ruthless domineering to make money by exploiting and modifying human behaviour, by serving up ads to users just when they are most susceptible to persuasion and generating wants they did not know they had. Google is following a…
WhatsApp has streamlined its new payments function via the messaging app service to become the quickest way to take orders from small business customers and is the easiest way to take their payments in India. Since May 2018, over 1 million Indians have been testing a new payments function in the messaging app, which is…
Anne Boden had left UK’s top banks as she was disillusioned with the sector. The financial crash and emerging technologies presented vast opportunity for change, but change it would not, and Boden was increasingly frustrated and decided to do something radical and set up her own bank. In her latest book Anne reveals how she…
This Christmas HMV has fallen victim slump in sales on the UK high street and customer changing habits including music streaming, and is filing for administration for the second time in six years, as shopper footfall dropped 3.1 per cent on Boxing Day compared with last year. His Master’s Voice, started trading in 1921, has…