French Luxury group LVMH pounces on Tiffany with a $14.5bn takeover bid

Tiffany is expected to rebuff an unsolicited $14.5bn takeover approach from Bernard Arnault’s French luxury group LVMH. Tiffany’s adviser were yesterday still examining the surprise indicative offer from LVMH, the world’s largest luxury group by sales. The all-cash offer came earlier this month which pitches Tiffany shares at $120 per share at that time. Shares…

Happy Diwali

    Diwali the festival of lights associated with Ram’s victory over Raavan and symbolises spiritual advancement amidst darkness, celebrated by millions of Hindus in India and all over the world. The five day long festivities spanning five days include cleaning houses, workplaces and decorating them with lamps, flowers and rangoli. The significance of five…

Fall of Thatcher, her changes to divide Britain

  A conspiracy removed Margaret Thatcher states Charles Moore almost in slow motion. The volume starts in 1987 with Thatcher’s third general election victory covers  her fall from power in 1990, and her subsequent decline.  In the previous two volumes Moore has worked 20 years covering her childhood  and early years, then her first victory…

H&M cash in on hair styling and vegan cosmetics with fewer clothes

A streamlined Hennes & Maurtiz store, decluttered in  Karlaplan, affluent district of Stockholm, started crucial experiment which could turn the fortunes of the Swedish purveyor of cheap chic. H&M struggled for profitability in the wake of tough competition from Zara, owned by Spain’s Inditex,  whose fashion were sharper. Menswear has been ditched so the selection…

Google makes fundamental changes by introducing Bert

Google, the world’s most popular search engine,  is adopting artificial intelligence in its ranking algorithm. The change which Google explains as the most significant revision in at least five year, uses a new form of language analysis to understand users’ queries better and will affect its responses to one in `10 searches , according to…

WeWork to cuit 4, 000 jobs

SoftbBank to force 4, 000 WeWork job cuts WeWork is planning to cut  4, 000 jobs  out of a workforce of 14, 000 as part of  aggressive turnaround plans put in place  by Japan’s SoftBank after it took control of  the co-working business this week. 1, 000 pf the cuts will hit employees such as…

Harrods to sell most expensive advent calendar

Harrods to sell the most expensive traditional advent calendar in the world, inspired by the granite façade of the New York Store created by artist and illustrator Pat Vale, next month priced at £104, 000. The doors o the 4 feet calendar each open to reveal items from the Tiffany store on Fifth Avenue in…

Will Super-intelligent robots enslave humanity?

Alarms already sounded by Bill Gates, late Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk,  about artificial intelligence and how one day super-intelligent robots  will one day wipe out or enslave humanity. Superhuman artificial intelligence is an approaching tidal wave that threatens not just human relationships and jobs but civilisation itself. Conflict between humans and machines is seen as…

Underground protest sparks state of emergency in Santiago

Protesters comprising of high school and university students jumped turnstiles, attacked several underground station, started fire and blocked traffic, leaving widespread damage across Chilean capital Santiago and left thousands of commuters without transport. Earlier, this month, the government increased fares by $1.17 (£0.90p) for peak hour journey, blaming higher energy costs and weaker Peso. A…