Laxman Narasimhan, the boss of Reckitt Benckiser, has been running the global consumer goods giant during lockdown from his west London flat, where he has been staying with his mother, who celebrates her 80th birthday this week. The arrangement has brought a human side to corporate life. In a move that would win kudos from … Read more
Is this the end of ‘porch pirates’? Tiny lock uses aircraft-grade steel cable to stop packages from being stolen One in five Americans are thought to have fallen victim to ‘porch pirates’, with $25million worth of parcels going missing every day After falling victim, Canadian entrepreneur Dennis Evans invented a solution Parcels are locked inside … Read more
We want your cash! The Government turns to Britain’s army of savers with NS&I now looking to rake in £35bn this year as it ups target by 500% in wake of coronavirus Treasury-backed bank raises financing target from £6bn to £35bn It comes as NS&I now has a number of best buy savings deals Rates … Read more
British technology start-up billed as ‘Zoom for medics’ mulling a fundraising of up to £100m to help support growth in UK and overseas By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:56 BST, 11 July 2020 | Updated: 22:46 BST, 11 July 2020 Signed up: ITV’s This Morning doctor Zoe Williams is an adviser to … Read more
The Young and the Restless has been tipped to be the second U.S. daytime drama to return to filming, following COVID-19 production lockdown The show in its 47th season, which was recently renewed through to 2024, is rumored to begin taping on July 6, 2020, according to Deadline. Cast and crew members have been sent … Read more
When I first moved to the UK from Ghana with my family in my early teens, the country that welcomed me was one where multiculturalism flourished and neighbours were warm and unassuming. Your achievements were not prefaced by the colour of your skin or your place on the totem pole of identity politics. People from … Read more
Who are Black Lives Matter? Where did they come from and what, exactly, do they believe in? These may seem silly questions. But in a month when Premier League footballers have joined Sir Keir Starmer and other British celebrities in ‘taking the knee’ to express their ‘collective support for the Black Lives Matter movement’, it … Read more
A British company which has assembled a heavyweight board and is planning to grow marijuana in England is plotting a £100 million float that would make it the largest cannabis business on the London Stock Exchange. Cannaray will become the only London-listed UK grower of cannabis next summer if it secures its licence to cultivate … Read more
British people’s ‘fortitude’ will enable then to survive the Covid-19 crisis and regain ‘the freedoms they hold dear’, Boris Johnson declares today. The Prime Minister says that the epidemic has brought out ‘the best in humanity’ and that the public’s ‘perseverance’ and ‘good common sense’ will enable the country to ‘inch forwards’ out of lockdown … Read more
Tinder is testing out a new video feature that aims to match users via a live-streamed game of trivia Tinder is testing out a video feature that brings in-app trivia to the platform The feature will pit users against one another in a game of live-streamed trivia It is currently testing the feature out with … Read more