LVMH and Rihanna pauses Fendi brand Louis Vuitton owner LVMH and music star Rihanna have agreed to suspend her fashion line Fenty less than two years after its launch, as Fenty’s ready to wear activity, based in Paris would be “put on hold” pending better conditions – a rare setback for Europe’s most valuable luxury…
Rod Ponton, a Texas lawyer whose mishap with a cat filter on Zoom has made him an internet sensation during a virtual court session viewed by millions of times online. “I did not know that Zoom could turn me into a cat. I did not know that cat Zoon could turn me into an internet…
Weetabix shared pictures on Twitter of Heinz baked beans slathered over a couple of its cereal biscuits. The tweet has since been shared thousands of times. The caption read: “ Why should bread have all the fun when there’s Weetabix? Serving up @ HeinzUK Beanz on bix for breakfast with a twist. #ItHasToBeHeinz#HaveYouHadYourWeetabix”. Google, YouTube,…
Robert Maxwell, the media mogul, and former MP made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour aboard his yacht. The Lady Ghislaine, to complete his purchase of the ailing New York Daily News in February 1991. But ten months later, Maxwell disappeared from the same yacht off the Canary Islands, only to be found dead in…
Fancy having a surname Hedges-Stocks who had been inadvertently seen 40 million times on Twitter. Zoe has been inundated with thousands of requests for financial advice and trading tips after people misinterpreted her surname. Zoah Hedges-Stocks, a 31-year-old writer from Leiston, Suffolk, stated on Twitter hers was “ not a finance account” and did “not…
Qualcomm, which makes processors and modem that power any of the leading smartphones and other consumer gadgets, what the resurgent car industry was facing called “ Chipageddon.” When the supplies run short, it halts manufacturing chips, as gamers struggled to buy new graphic cards, Apple had to stagger the release of its iPhones 12 Pro…
Taylor Swift is being sued by US-based Evermore theme park, which says the star’s latest album has infringed its trademark by using the same name, as Swift’s Evermore release had caused some confusion about whether the two were linked. The Utah venue said there was a dramatic departure from typical levels of traffic on the…
Google’s parent company Alphabet saw record revenues for the second straight quarter despite the pandemic. Google’s advertising business including YouTube, accounted for 81 per cent of Alphabet’s $56.9bn in fourth-quarter sales up 23 per cent compared with last year. The Cloud unit also saw strong growth as sales were $13.1 bn for the full…
Kamala, the daughter of a Jamaican-born father and India-born mother who met in the 60s Bay Area political activism. In her 2020 Democratic National Convention acceptance speech as Joe Biden’s running mate, she proudly recalled having “ a stroller’s eye view of people getting into what the great John Lewis called “ good trouble”. Her…