Rolls Royce the FTSE 100n company, which has Airbus and Boeing as its customers delivered a pre-tax profit of £287m in the first six months of 2017 an increase of 150 per cent on the same period last year. Revenue rose 6 per cent to £ 6.87bn which includes currency exchange fluctuations. Trent engines propelled…
” The opportunity of ecommerce in India is immense, and the surface has barely been scratched” according to Kunal Bahl, co-founder of Snapdeal. The breakdown of talks over a sale of Snapdeal to Flipkart, its largest peer – a deal encouraged by SoftBank, Snapdeal’s main investor, but resisted by Mr Bahl. This has in fact…
Sony has reported its highest quarterly earnings in 18 months and boosted their profits by stellar games unit. Sony’s games titles hit top-10 weekly rankings of global console game sales. Sony’s Playstation 4, the games console whose 60m consumer base is twice as big as its nearest competitor – Microsoft’s XboxOne. Gamers are getting ready…
Apple posted its third quarter earnings a found a way to restore some of its lost momentum in sales as revenue grew 6 per cent year over year and profit was up 12 per cent over the same period in 2016. Apple’s IPad sales were up 15 per cent from last year with the sale…
Researchers discovered the molecule, vinyl cyanide (acrylonitrile), for a “ protocell” that might be stable and flexible in liquid methane, “ according to astronomer Jonathan Lunine from Cornell Chemical engineers. Scientists have found the first indisputable evidence of the presence of a molecule – acrylonitrile – on Titan, which may be key to exotic life…
The Docklands Light Railway, the sixth busiest railway in the UK, turns 30 today. TFL’s latest map of Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is aimed at making the rail link easier to navigate. The new multi-coloured design features several branches between Bank, Tower Gateway and Stratford International and Woolwich Arsenal, Beckton and Lewisham. The origins of…
Hungry elephant stops a truck and started eating potatoes loaded in the vehicle en route to West Bengal’s West Midnapore area.
Atlasglobal, a Turkish Airbus A320, flown by Ukranian captain Alexander Akopov was en route from Istanbul to Erkan, Cyprus, with 127 tourists on board, when it encountered severe violent storms and giant hailstones which smashed the windscreen, but the pilot kept his nerve and landed safely last week. Soon after take-off at 1,300 metres above…
Hungarian Grand Prix –Formula One World Championship Hungaroring -70 laps-191 miles 30th Jul 2017 Points Time Lag Avg mph 1 Sabestian Vettel Ferrari 25 1:39:46.713 184.386 2 Kimi Rikkonen Ferrari 18 0.908 Sec 184.358 3 Va;tteri Bottas Mercedes 15 12.462 Sec 184.003 4 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 12 12.885 Sec 183.99 5 Max…