“Find Your Strength and Sparkle Your Way to the Top”

  Michelle, an American-Italian Diva, is not your average Diva, advices readers to “ Keep Your Shit Together”, “ Give Good Face” and “Be Thankful You’re a Misfit” Michelle Diva’s book give powerful positive and polished tips from her vogueing days in downtown Manhattan clunes in the 90s to her successful career in radio and…

British Airways flight evacuated as white smoke filled cabin

British Airways flight BA 422 which departed from London heathrow at 15:10 BST on Monday and landed in Valencia was evacuated after white smoke filled the cabin shortly before landing. BA apologised to the 175 Passengers , two pilots and six cabin crew on board the aircraft an Airbus A321 and issued a statement saying…

Super break and Late rooms snaps and go into administration

Malvern Group  which incorporates Manchester based Late Rooms and York-based Superbreak Mini Holidays, known as Super Break has ceased trading affecting more than 50, 000 travellers. The group said Super Break the hotel-only holidays employing 250 staff, would be cancelled  and people currently on holiday might have to pay again but bookings through Late Rooms…

LSE completes $27bn Refinitiv deal

The London Stock Exchange Group clinched a $27bn refinitiv deal and turn it into a global markets and information powerhouse to rival Michael Bloomberg’s financial data empire. David Schwimmer, an ex-Goldman Sacs American banker and CEO of LSE said he was confident the business would meet the  high expectations set by investors, which have sent…

Alphabet ovetakes Apple and becomes king of cash pile

Alphabet, Google’s parent company has become the King of the corporate cash pile after beating Apple the iPhone maker who had this title for the last decade, but reduced its financial reserves by $60bn in the past 18 months. Apple’s holding of cash and marketable securities, net of debt, has dropped to $102bn, down from…

Sovereign wealth fund to invest £1bn

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is in advanced talks to invest £1bn in UK’s Babylon Health, a digital health start-up used by the National Health Service. The investment is part of a new funding round for the start-up that will give Babylon “unicorn” status. London-based Babylon founded in 2013 by Ali Parsa, a British-Iranian entrepreneur…

Grant Thornton to leave as Sport Direct’s auditor

Grant Thornton has told regulators that it intends to quite as Sport Direct’s auditor following concerns over the disclosure of a €674m tax bill,  a move that would attract more scrutiny on to the corporate governance of Mike Ashley’s business. The company which has audited Sports Direct since it floated on the London Stock Exchange …

Pfizer and Mylan drugs patent merger

Pfizer is expected to announce today that it will combine its off-patent drug business with Mylan, the generics drugmaker with a market value of $9.5bn.  The US drugmaker is expected to create a new unit with larger seller of off-patent and generic medicines including Lipitor and Viagra. Mylan shareholders  will hold just over 40 per…

Google accused of threatening free speech, fair elections and democracy

US Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has sued Google for at least $50m over a six-hour suspension of her campaign’s ad account after the first Democratic debate. Gabbard, the first-ever Hindu elected to US Congress, was briefly the most-searched for candidate on Google after the debate, as per the New York Times.She accused Google of…