Category Finance
The Highest Swimming Pool EVER:
At the newly built ‘Marina Bay Sands’ hotel in Singapore, the water in the infinity pool seems to end in a sheer drop, it actually spills into a catchment area where it is pumped back into the main pool. At three times the length of an Olympic pool and 650ft up, it is the largest […]
ILikeMusic: Life
I stumbled across a very cool collection of content today. The site is called ‘ILikeMusic’ and the content is called ‘Life’. What is ILikeMusic? An independent UK music magazine, which offers the latest music news, album and single reviews, interviews, uk charts, tickets, music career info and so on … The site is approaching 10 years […]
T-Orangbile
A merger is on the cards… T-Mobile and Orange are soon to become the market leader in one fine swoop. Speed diallers beware as these two mobile networks will soon see up to 30,000,000 mobile phone customers, along with their contracts become one company that will claim a 37% market share. French owned Orange along […]
Footballer’s Watches
Quite simply the sheer weight of the numbers involved in the beautiful game of football has seen an ever increase in strategic alliances and sponsorship by sports bands such as Nike, Adidas, Puma Umbro, Reebok as well as Car Manufacturers and Technology companies. Now other lifestyle genres such as Watch companies are investing in this […]
Recession: part 3
Today, the Guardian newspaper reported that ‘A record surge in confidence among business professionals indicates Britain’s recession was at an end’, according to research. Optimism among professionals in the third quarter hit its highest level since the start of the financial crisis two years ago, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) […]
Round 2: Skype Vs eBay
So, as I previously posted on my blog, the online auction site eBay was running into deep waters regarding their asset, the internet phone company ‘Skype’. Ebay has agreed to sell the majority of internet phone company Skype for about $2bn (£1.2bn). Who will own Skype? It looks like the a group of private investors, […]
Recession: part 2
Confidence is appearing to circulate amongst the business community, working professionals have suggested that the recession is at an end – It is, why? The statement has appeared from survey results published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants. The BBC has reported, that the ICA index of business confidence rose to 4.8 at the end […]
Recession
So, for my own knowledge and understanding I would like to share with you my take on the recession and what it means for us and everyday living here in the UK… What is a ‘Recession’? To define this word, when a country’s economy shrinks for two quarters in a row, in a year (so, […]
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