Apple Pay will allow Brits to make payments by waving their iPhone or Apple Watch at contactless payment terminals from next month.
Year: 2015
Apple reveals its music streaming Spotify rival
Apple has announced a new app that combines a streaming song and music video library, an internet radio station and a way for artists to share news, tracks and other material.
Oxford business completes third acquisition with backing from Santander
Oxford-based Ridgefield Consulting Ltd, a family-owned chartered accountancy business, has acquired local firm Hunter Marshall & Co following a funding package from Santander Corporate & Commercial.
Pimlico Plumbers supremo Mullins challenges apprentices to tweet for a job
Charlie Mullins, founder of Pimlico Plumbers, and Business Matters columnist, has turned to social media to find one of the company’s next plumbing apprentices.
Made In Britain: Bertie Stephens, Flubit.com
Priding himself on being unconventional and doing things the ‘wrong way round’, Bertie Stephens and Flubit.com are on their to becoming one of the UK’s largest online marketplaces.
Boots set to cut 700 back office jobs
High street chemist Boots are set to cut 700 jobs as part of a global restructuring.
Book shelf: Getting (More of) What You Want
Cutting-edge psychology for a new style competitive edge in negotiation.
CBI sees solid and sustainable economic growth ahead
The British economy is on a firm footing, having grown faster than previously thought in 2014 and with solid, steady and sustainable growth predicted into 2016.
8 toxic employees who ruin great companies
Sometimes the greater “evil” lies just beneath the surface.
Deutsche Bank co-chiefs quit over scandals
Deutsche Bank’s beleaguered co-chief executives have resigned abruptly as one of the world’s largest investment banks struggles to overcome a swathe of scandals.
HSBC to reveal plans over UK headquarters
CEO Stuart Gulliver expected to address strategy just a day before George Osborne’s annal Mansion House speech to audience of top bankers
BT seen as likely takeover target for Germans
Telecoms deal mania increases speculation that Deutsche Telekom is eyeing Britain’s former state monopoly.
Tennis ace Andy Murray partners up with equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs
Tennis champion Andy Murray announced today that he has entered a long-term partnership arrangement with Seedrs, the London-based equity crowdfunding platform.
Crowdfunding aggregator app Tendr launches in the UK
Tendr, the first equity crowdfunding aggregator app has launched in the UK. Featuring Tinder-style functionality, the new app allows investors to keep up to date with all the latest campaigns from leading platforms such as Crowdcube, Seedrs and Angel List.
Third of UK workers have been asked to work less by their children
New research highlights the struggle facing full-time parents in today’s economy, as 33 per cent of working parents state they have been asked to work less by at least one of their children.