“The Switch” argues Bill Gates and his fellow travellers are mistaken “It won’t take 15 years but the breakthrough that Gates anticipated has already occurred” according to the author Chris Goodall, a British clean-energy expert and investor. Existing technology have brought the world to the solar-power and electricity storage revolution that will over shadow today’s…
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Padmasree Warrior 55, born in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh ( India), the former technology and strategy officer at Cisco systems, is the new CEO and global chief development officer at NextEV, a Chinese startup that’s building an electric car to compete with Tesla. Warrior, who spent her entire career with Motorola semiconductor plant, for 23 years…
Israeli Mobileye are joining forces with BMW and Intel to make reliable self-driving cars and make future mobility concepts a reality by 2021. “The future of automated driving promises to change lives and societies for the better. The complex world of fully autonomous will require the solutions bu the world’s best organisations to integrate intelligence…
Singapore Airline Boeing 777-300ER, SQ 368, Milan-bound had to turn back about two hours into the flight from Changi Airport following an engine oil warning message, and as it made an emergency landing at 6:50am on 27th June 2016, at the City’s main airport on Monday, plumes of smoke billowing from the aircraft. According to…
£1.5tn ($2tn) wiped out of Global markets after Brexit, largest single day drop since 2007. US banks began to act and shift operations out of UK as the world’s most convoluted and complex divorce begins. However, hedge funds make big wins from Brexit bets.FTSE100 was spared the worst of pain by the time it closed…
Instagram has more than 300 million people using it at least once a day. The service was bought by Facebook in 2012 for about £677m ($1bn) and has not stopped growing ever since. According to Facebook, an average of 95million photos and videos are posted each day and Co-founder Kevin Systrom said its success was…
An elderly male passenger has died on board a Emirates flight EK21 from Dubai to Manchester on 20th June 2016. He is said to have been ill before boarding in Dubai and Greater Manchester Police confirmed the death was not suspicious. The Boeing 777 landed at Manchester Airport at 7:30am this morning and was met…
Make-up and hair care products, Revlon, has agreed to buy Elizabeth Arden for £609m ($870m). Elizabeth Arden, famous for its Eight Hour Cream and Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber fragrances, dominates in the Asia-pacific region. Canadian-born Elizabeth Arden who founded the company in New York City in 1910, was the first to introduce eye make-up…
Where in the world will you get a 14-year old ninth class student, who had been swimming to go to his school every day for the last 10 days from his village and requests the government to build a bridge? Arjun Santhosh, from Kerala’s perumbalam village in Allappey district, is very fit and leaves home…
Ranjit Boparan (49) an Indian-origin food tycoon and restaurateur acquires, the much loved casual dining, 54 Giraffe restaurant chain including 12 franchise sites and three within Tesco stores, from Tesco. Tesco acquired Giraffe in 2013 for £49m. Ranjit will add to his Boparan Holdings alongside,t The Cinnamon Club, an upmarket Indian Restaurant in London.…