Vodafone Buy Out Cable & Wireless
It has been reported that the UK mobile phone operator Vodafone has agreed to buy telecoms group Cable & Wireless Worldwide (C&WW). It is thought that deal is worth in excess of £1 billion. Vodafone was left as C&WW’s only suitable candidate to buy them out after India’s Tata Communications put an end to its [...]
Microsoft to Buy Most of AOL’s Patent Library
Microsoft is going to buy the majority of AOL’s library of patents in a deal which is said to be worth around $1.06 billion. A statement the company said that the new agreement includes the intellectual property rights to around 800 inventions and as a result of the deal Microsoft will also be granted the [...]
Samsung Gets High Profits
Samsung Electronics have said that they expect the profit for the first three months of this year to almost double as the sales of its popular smartphones are continuing to grow. Samsung have announced that they expect an operating profit of about 5.8 trillion won which is the equivalent of £3.2 billion. The Samsung Galaxy [...]
0800 Numbers Free For UK Mobiles?
It has been announced that in the UK free calls to 0800 telephone numbers will be extended to anyone using a mobile phones it has been announced by the regulator, Ofcom. At the moment anyone who phones an 0800 from a UK mobile is liable to be charged at a rate of up to 21p [...]
Google Opens Online Store to Sell Tablets
It has been reported that Google is getting ready to open an online store that will sell its tablet computers directly to the customer. Reports have said that the store will sell Google branded tablets as well as other models such as Samsung and Asus. The report has come from claims the Wall Street Journal. [...]
Tumblr Deletes Unsuitable Content
It has been reported that the well known blogging website Tumblr has enforced a ban on blogs being published that encourage self-harm. The blogs that will be stopped are those that include encouraging content about self-harm, anorexia and bulimia. Up until now the site, which has an estimate of up to eight million UK users, [...]
Kraft Changes Non US Name to Mondelez
It has been reported that the US food company Kraft Foods, which is also the owner of the famous UK chocolate maker Cadbury has made the decision to rename its global snack division Mondelez. The new firm will encompass Cadbury and will have an estimated turnover of £19.6 billion. Other brands that will come under [...]
Groupon Ordered to Improve Practices Within Three Months
It has been reported that the voucher company Groupon has been given a deadline of 3 months for it to improve the way that it conducts its business in the UK. The ruling has come from a UK regulator after an investigation was carried out on Groupon. The Office of Fair Trading in the UK [...]
News International to Launch The Sun on Sunday Next Weekend
The UK is getting ready for the first Sun newspaper that is going to go on sale on Sunday next weekend. New International has announced that next weekend will see the first publication of The Sun on Sunday. An email was was sent to all staff from Rupert Murdoch saying that he would be in [...]
Housing Market Still Slow in UK
Even though the UK saw a rise in the housing market in January the house prices for February fell by 0.9% which cancels out any rise in January. The report has come from the Halifax building society in the UK. The Halifax which also arranges mortgages for its customers said that according to its figures [...]