Damp January instead of Dry? Find out how many calories are in your beer or wine with Diageo’s drinks calculator on DrinkIQ January 19, 2016 If Dry January seems excessive but you still want to keep some semblance of a healthy lifestyle in the new year, Damp January might be more up your street. But how to make sure that your drinking is balanced? A new drinks calculator lets you track not just how many units you’re drinking, but also [...]
Rio Tinto posts record-high iron output despite plunging commodities prices January 19, 2016 Rio Tinto has shrugged off the woes of the continuing global commodities rout to post record high iron ore shipments in its fourth quarter results today. Despite the rout, the world’s second-largest mining company is aiming to boost production further next year, setting a 2016 target for global iron ore production of around 350m tonnes. [...]
Unilever warns of “tougher market conditions” in 2016 despite smashing sales expectations January 19, 2016 Battling currency headwinds and slowing global growth, consumer goods giant Unilever has warned of “high volatility” and tougher conditions in the year to come, despite posting underlying sales growth that beat expectations. The figures The FTSE-listed consumer goods firm posted underlying sales growth of 4.9 per cent for the last three months of 2015, a [...]
How Spotify and streaming is changing the world of music piracy in 2016 January 18, 2016 Piracy is still a massive problem – both in the UK and globally, but the habits of 14 billion visits in 2015 reveal the changing face of music piracy. The main trend of 2015 was a shift towards music web downloads and streaming rather than torrenting. With a decline of 20 per cent for the [...]
Fintech firms falling behind FTSE 100 firms on boardroom diversity with less than one in ten female directors January 18, 2016 Fintech firms may be leading the City when it comes to developing financial innovations, but when it comes to boardroom diversity, they’re falling far behind. The UK’s top 50 fintech firms have just nine per cent women on their boards, research by recruitment firm Astbury Marsden reveals. This makes them three times less diverse than [...]
Davos 2016: Why fintech innovation has put us on the brink of a “fourth industrial revolution” January 18, 2016 Most of us will associate the term “industrial revolution” with images of the smog, steam and clanking heavy machinery that transformed society in the 19th century. Since then, society has witnessed two more industrial revolutions, advances in electronics and IT, and now economists are heralding the advent of the “fourth industrial revolution”. This new industrial [...]
BT creating 1,000 new UK jobs in bid to move criticised customer services back to the UK January 18, 2016 BT announced today it would be creating 1,000 new jobs in the UK, as the telco giant works to move its criticised customer services back to the country. BT’s goal is that at least 80 per cent of customer calls are answered from within the UK by the end of the year, and to that [...]
Everything you need to know about why MPs are debating whether to ban Donald Trump from the UK today January 18, 2016 MPs are gearing up to debate whether or not Donald Trump should be banned from the UK today. The debate follows a petition to have the controversial mogul and US presidential candidate banned from the UK, which garnered over 560,000 signatures in a matter of days. When is the debate happening? The petition to ban [...]
New London Underground map reveals how much you pay in average rent at every Tube stop on the Piccadilly, Victoria, District, Central, Northern, Bakerloo, Jubilee and Metropolitan line January 18, 2016 A new London Underground map reveals the average (staggering) rent at every Tube stop in London. London’s exorbitant rents are obviously nothing new, but this map clearly lays bare the disparity between different parts of London. A flat by London’s most expensive Tube station will set you back nine times more than the same size [...]
Which cities have the most businesses accepting bitcoin? London, New York, San Francisco among the world’s 11 most bitcoin-friendly cities January 18, 2016 Where in the world can you do most with your bitcoins? London is one of the hotspots for the cryptocurrency, but other than that your best bet is to head to the US. Using data from Coin Map, Crypto Coin News has put together a ranking of the world’s most bitcoin-friendly cities, based on the [...]
