£160 thousand + fine for Starbucks litter in Westminster

2 Starbucks on Berkeley Street Westminster had paid huge fines for leaving bags of litter in the streets which often gets opened or damaged and spills out.  They were taken to Westminster Magistrates Court and ordered to pay for 4 waste offences.  Judge Coleman said they had acted in a ‘deliberate’ manner ignoring numerous warnings from…

Arnold Palmer: Golf Legend dies at 87

US Golfer Arnold Palmer, the godfather of Golf, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport’s history has died. In his long career , he won more than 90 tournaments worldwide, including seven majors. However, the US PGA eluded him, although he was runner-up three times. Tiger Woods Tweeted : “ Thanks Arnold for…

Saturn’s icy moon Europa erupting water

Scientists from NASA obtained further evidence to show that Jupiter’s icy moon throws jets of water out into space. Back in 2013, using Hubble telescope, scientists first reported this behaviour. Europa’s huge subsurface ocean of liquid water, is one of the most likely placed find microbial life beyond earth. Hubble made its latest identification by…

Bridget Jones’s Baby? – Oh Good!

Oh – what a surprise!  The popular Bridget Jones is back and this time there’s a new deal – a bun in the oven with a bit of a quandary as to who is the definitive doting dad!  Director Sharon Maguire with a cast including Colin Firth and dishy Patrick Dempsey, not to forget Emma Thompson…

Dentsu investigating overcharging

Dentsu, Japan’s most powerful advertising agency, headquartered in Shodome district of Minato, Tokyo, is investigating over 200, 000 transactions to gather evidence of overcharging clients. Its public apology from the group’s head of digital advertising, threatens to tarnish their reputation once widely viewed as beyond reproach. Dentsu’s internal investigation was triggered by a complaint from Toyota…

Google and Salesforce in discussion to buy Twitter

The San Francisco based Twitter has held talks with Google and Salesforce, an enterprise software company, on a potential arrangement to buy the social media pioneer. The company has been working for several weeks with Goldman Sachs to explore a sale of the group, who approached several global media companies to inspire an interest where…

Samsung Note 2 phone exploded onboard IndiGo plane

IndiGo GE-054 flight from Singapore to Chennai   on 23rd September 2016, averted a major accident when a passenger noticed smoke in an overhead cabin and the fire was extinguished by crew before it spread. The source of the fire is from Samsung Note 2 device that was among the baggage in the overhead cabin. Nobody…

Blocked Whatsapp unblocked in Brazil

Federal Supreme Court in Brazil overturns judge’s order to mobile phone companies to block access after owner Facebook refused to intercept texts  for police enquiry. Judge’s earlier ruling ordering mobile phone companies to indefinitely block access to Facebook’s WhatsApp – the third such block in the last eight months. WhatsApp is popular phone messaging app…