Wouldn’t it be nice if companies and consumers could communicate through social or mobile channels instead of having to depend on arduous phone calls or emails that never go answered? This is the question that Sparkcentral set out to answer when it created its Automated Messaging Distribution (AMD) platform. This ...
A groundbreaking investigation into public sector pensions has revealed the 22 individuals who run UK government departments have an annual average pot of £907,273. The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) has today revealed the details of some of the most generous unfunded pensions in Whitehall, with Sir Simon McDonald, head of the Foreign and ...
This weekend’s revelations that Theresa May is considering axeing the Human Rights Act after Brexit should come as no surprise. The party responsible for the Windrush scandal and other hostile immigration policies have been hamstrung by compassionate elements of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) for years. Proposals to ...
Celebrating an alpine winter classic, Le Pont de la Tour has launched a unique cheese room experience for January, specifically championing fondue. While arguments often take place over whether fondue’s origins lie with France or Switzerland, Le Pont de la Tour is decidedly French, opened by Sir Terence Conran at ...
QuotedData’s economic roundup – January 2019 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to ...
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – January 2019 is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of December 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Extract from money raised and returned in December The ...
Men and women who use cigarettes are twice as old as non smokers - biologically
The tiny eggs that have fascinated schoolboys for decades have proteins very similar to human cells
Streaming service Spotify has teamed up with astrologist Chani Nicholas to create a series of ‘cosmic playlists’ based on the twelve signs of the zodiac. The playlists are currently only available in the US but a wider roll-out is expected. You can check out this month's star sign playlist - ...