Award winning and bestselling author, Simon Garfield take a tour across time in this age of atomically precise devices and look at some of the ways in which time is represented, and meets with makers and advertsiers of Swiss watches and Roger Bannister the first runner of a sub-four-minute mile. He also looks at management…
Spotify, a Swedish music, podcast and video streaming service, pounced on to buy Berlin-based music streaming start-up Sound-Cloud. As SoundCloud’s 200m-strong community is to join Spotify’s 100m, which include 40m paying subscribers, and will compete with their biggest US rival Apple Music who has 17m paying subscribers. When the deal concludes we have major European superpower…
Samsung is investigating reports that some of its washing machines have exploded in the US. A class-action lawsuit filed in New Jersey is alleging some Samsung top-loading washing machines have exploded in their owners’ homes, and allegedly caused damage to walls and doors and presented significant injury risks. One of the Plaintiffs in the case,…
A commuter train crashed into a railway station in the US state of New Jersey and went through ticket barriers and into the reception area of Hoboken station, killing a woman bystander and injuring 108 people. Fabiola Bittar de Kroon 34 was struck by debris while standing on the platform and lost her life. There…
Dubai International Airport, one of the world’s busiest, was forced to ground all it flights for half an hour just after 8:00 local time (04:00 GMT) on Wednesday 28th September, 2016, due to the drone flying in the area according to Airport authorities. However, arrivals resumed at 8L35 with full operations restored by 09:07. On…
Labour Party’s conference in Liverpool, Jeremy Corbyn said it could build support by focusing on the “needs and aspirations of middle and lower income voters, of ordinary families, if we demonstrate we’ve got a viable alternative to the government;’s failed economic policies, I’m convinced we can build the electroral support that can beat the Tories”.…
Yesterday’s debate between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton Following yesterday’s debate between Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton, Mr Trump told a crowd of 75,000 at a rally, that he was holding back, stating, “I didn’t want to do anything to embarrass her” regarding Mrs Clinton. Looking at some of the issues raised, Trump said in 2012…
Latest “Fortune.com” reports, Tech giant Apple’s progress on its new campus called a “spaceship”, with an estimated cost of $5billion featuring 2.8 million Square feet of office space and can house 12, 000 employees, and 7000 trees, and parking spaces which are expected to hold 11,000 vehicles, 700,000 Square feet of solar panels that will…
A 225 seat restaurant is planned as a replacement to Harrods fine wines department after cognacs like the £24,995 Louis X111 stopped selling in a “glass ceiling” case. In the boom when it opened it had wines and champagnes at huge prices and in 2013 prime property was also selling for record sums. £18,000 was…
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are in Canada with their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte. They have met and socialised with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie and attended numerous entertaining and carefully planned events and ceremonies. Kate has stunned admirers with her beautiful outfits and has sported a diamond…