John Donahoe, the eBay CEO, has claimed that Skype is a poor business tool.
Donahoe was speaking to reporters over his decision to purchase the company in 2005 only to later sell it at just a 5 per cent profit when he made the assertion that both buyers and sellers were disadvantaged with the system.
In September [...]
Northern Rock, the nationalised bank, has announced that it will be closing its offshore division.
The closure, which is set to take place in September, means that around 6,000 customers with the Northern Rock Guernsey branch have just three months to transfer their accounts to different provider.
The Northern Rock group stated that the decision to close [...]
Embattled airline giant British Airways is facing a new embarrassment.
As if the ongoing strikes and disgruntled cabin crew members were not enough, it now appears as if BA has decided to handle the transporting of an international terrorist.
The head of Al Qaeda Osama Bin Laden is the subject of a worldwide search by law enforcement [...]
The ex-manager for the Spice Girls, Simon Fuller, has launched a bid for the parent company of American Idol.
Fuller is at the head of a consortium which has made an offer for the purchase of the company that currently holds the rights to the phenomenally successful US TV show.
Fuller was also formerly the chief executive [...]
Relationships between divers in the Formula 1world championship have been tested after a dramatic race in Turkey.
The driver’s title, already looming as the best for years, pits British pin-up boys Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button in the Mclarens against the Red Bull team of Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel. Former champion, Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, is [...]
The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, aka Fergie, has turned to the queen of daytime television to salvage her reputation.
Fergie, who has previously appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show in her role as ambassador for WeightWatchers, will be given around 10 minutes to address the US television public, and her time will not be paid.
With [...]
The Sale of Virgin Media Television is reportedly moving ahead, although a recent shake-up may see Five included in the deal.
The commercial television sector in Britain is on the verge of a period of what has been called dramatic consolidation, as RTL prepares the sale of Channel Five and Virgin Media’s television channels on the [...]
A five-month-old infant was released from hospital yesterday after being taken by ambulance on Sunday after receiving sunburns at Brighton Beach. The boy suffered burns over 40 per cent of his body when he and his mother visited the UK south coast from their home in south London. According to a representative of Sussex Police, [...]
The Foreign Office has advised Britons to avoid all non-essential travel to Kingston due to the civil unrest occurring in the Jamaican capital. There have been 27 killings in Kingston and West Kingston in recent days, as police have been hunting a suspected drug lord in the area. The city issued a state of emergency [...]
Officials from New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton have apologised to the parents of a newborn whose finger was inadvertently sliced off when a midwife cut the mother’s umbilical cord. The incident happened to the little finger of Ishika Kainth on 14 May, whose digit was re-attached by surgeons later in the day.
In the official apology, [...]