Google agrees to buy Apigee for £482m

  Google’s purchase of Software developer Apigee is certainly a boom for B2b marketers. The search engine giant has agreed to pay £482m ($625m) for Apigee Corp, a provider of cloud-based software tools that companies use to develop and manage application programming and interfaces, or APIs to transfer data between applications like e- commerce sites…

Pavlova – an adventure in the Kitchen waiting to happen

The classic recipe:- 6 egg whites 250 gm caster sugar 1 tsp cornflour 1 tsp white whine vinegar 300ml double cream 100g Greek Yoghurt 350-500 g soft summer fruit – blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, kiwis etc Use a sparkling clean metal or glass mixing bowl – any grease traces on it will ruin your work.  All…

Mary Barra Fortune’s Most Powerful Women

Mary T. Barra 54, from Waterford, Michigan, US, a Stanford Graduate School of Business, retained the Fortune’s Most Powerful Woman after a year of “dramatic improvement” at the $152.4 billion in revenues of the auto giant, after she ably steered successfully through the ignition switch crisis that hit in 2014, ended operations in Russia and…

Bayer pounces on Monsanto deal with $56bn sweetner offer

Bayer’s takeover bid with a $56bn offer to create World’s  biggest seed and crop spray supplier met with some resistance  with the shareholders of Monsanto who wanted a further improved offer.Bayer Aktiengesellschaft or its subsidiaries (“Bayer AG”), to purchase all of the outstanding shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Monsanto Company, a…

World Coconut Day on 2nd September

The Coconut Development Board celebrated World Coconut Day on September 2 to make people understand that this crop has a vital role in poverty reduction. The Asian Pacific Coconut Community headquartered at Jakarta, Indonesia, an inter-governmental organisation of 18-member countries to coordinate and harmonise coconut development activities of the Asian Pacific region.

Ireland should collect 13bn Euros from Apple

European Commission has ruled that Ireland should recover up to £11bn (€ 13bn) from Apple in back taxes. Further to a three-year investigation, it has concluded that the US firm’s Irish tax benefits are illegal. The Commission also said Ireland enabled the company to pay substantially less than other businesses, in effect paying a corporate…

Tyre burst force Flyby plane to do emergency landing at Birmingham

A Flybe flight 1274, from Amsterdam to Manachester, with 76 passengers on board was forced to make an emergency landing at Birmingham Airport after a tyre burst while taking–off . Birmingham Airport was closed off for half an hour on Monday 29 August 2016, afternoon due to the incident. No-one was injured but flights were…

Fall of Jawbone at legal hurdle

Jawbone and Fitbit were arch rivals in the early days of the wearable technology. Now that Fitbit has gone to become the market leader in fitness trackers after listing at the New York Stock Exchange last year. Jawbone, which saw its valuation cut in half in a financing round in January, struggled to keep pace…

First Apple computer sold for $618,000

Apple Founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built 200 of the Apple 1 computers in 1976. The original very first prototype, Apple 1, the unicorn of computers, has been sold for £618,000($815,000). The Apple 1 ran on the Apple 1 BASIC operating system. The model auctioned this week, is a prototype, probably made prior to…

Dyson Supersonic hairdryer a great success

Dyson supersonic hairdryer,  the new product launched looks amazingly different from any other hairdryers. Its elegant small nozzle to dry the hair and stylish look with the all new V9 motor, which has superior technology and tiny enough to fit into the base of the hairdryer’s handle – as other brands the motor sits on the…