Thomas Cook approached government for a £200m bailout

Thomas Cook has approached the UK government for a bailout to save itself from collapse after its lenders threatened to pull out of a proposed rescue deal. The travel group  was locked in talks yesterday with multiple potential investors which include the government providing a lifeline of £200m as part of the demand from its…

Airbnb IPO next year

Airbnb, the rental platform, valued at $31bn, with over $1bn revenue in its second quarter of 2019, and made more than $80bn from renting their homes since it was created, would float on the stock exchange by announcing its plans to go public next year. Brian Chesky, CEO, said the company would be ready for…

Medical robotics  company with £1bn valuation

Five Cambridge medical engineers  who set up in 2014, a surgical robotic company  has hit a valuation of £1bn. CMR is launching its first surgical product and its  Versius, a versatile and portable robot that provides the surgeon with multiple arms to carry out a range of keyhole  with minimum access procedures after a £195m,…

Scooby-Doo makes it to 50

Scooby-Doo an American franchise with several animated television series produced from 1969 is 50 years. Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! For Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1969. The basic story, of classic Scooby-Doo cartoons, has entertained three generations of children and today, the Franchise is cclebrating 560 years aired…

Christianity: the most influential legacy of the ancient world

  German philosopher, Ludwig Feuerbach gave an immortal reply to the followers that modern life owes much to its Christian prototype, who asked if Christians had incubated some early version of modern ideas that eventually needed toppling Christianity itself to come to their own? Despite opposition to paganism, Christianity had to be smashed as the…

Danilo Cafu’s on dies aged 30

Danilo Feliciano de Moraes, the son of former Brazil World Cup winner captain Cafu has died at the age of 30 after suffering a suspected heart attack while playing football near his family home in Sao Paolo.