Fully Charged – AT&T’s new Solar-Powered Charging Stations to increase user connectivity
Jun 18, 2013
Jeremy Parkinson
Technology
How many times have you been faced with the dilemma of choosing between using data connection to navigate to your destination or saving your phone battery from draining? Or how many times are you caught up in a situation when you had to send an important email while you are commuting but your battery is […]
Google Adds to their Mapping Service Dominance
Jun 12, 2013
Jeremy Parkinson
Technology
Google’s powerful mapping services will become even more dominant after the acquisition of an Israeli social mapping start-up called Waze. Waze features real-time traffic data partially provided by users with the goal of helping drivers find the fastest route to a destination. Waze’s success in part is due to the reliance of its users who […]
Bundesbank cuts Germany’s growth outlook
Jun 07, 2013
Jeremy Parkinson
News
Following the central bank’s monthly report, the Bundesbank has downgraded growth forecasts in Germany for both this and next year. However, the institution suggests a recovery for the euro area may well be on the horizon, having recorded a rise in business confidence in May. Bundesbank cut its December projections for 2013 from 0.4 to […]
Guest Post Guidelines
May 30, 2013
Jeremy Parkinson
Guest Posts
Welcome! Welcome to our guest blogging page! Please read our blogging guidelines before getting started. If you have any questions, shoot us an email and we will get back to you with an answer. We are excited to have you post on our site. Guest blogging is a great way to share valuable information and […]
Life Insurance: The Future for Sony
May 29, 2013
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment, Home, Technology
Sony is widely known as a top tier consumer electronics company specializing in gaming consoles, most notably the PlayStation series, and high definition televisions. However, they are losing money on each of these products in recent years. Sony’s most successful departments have surprisingly not been in electronics, music or movies, but actually their life insurance […]
Recovery “alarmingly uneven”
May 20, 2013
Jeremy Parkinson
News
At the recent IMF Spring Meetings, experts highlighted the discrepancies in the growth rates of countries around the world. PwC, who six months ago coined the term “two-speed economy”, has revised its analysis to include a third speed lane. “Whilst the eurozone continues to focus on crisis management and Japan puts the finishing touches to […]
Hedging emerging market currency risk
May 09, 2013
Jeremy Parkinson
News
Emerging market currency exposure is becoming more important to investors and corporations alike. In the post-crisis world, emerging market regions have been seen as an investment alternative to the troubled G10. An environment of extremely low yields in developed markets has made the higher yields available in emerging markets more attractive – particularly as the […]
Slovenia debates privatisation to avoid bailout
May 07, 2013
Jeremy Parkinson
News
The country is grappling with a credible strategy to enable it to raise funds to remain solvent. Slovenia needs to present a suitable economic reform programme to the European Commission later this week. By selling state-owned bank Nova KBM and telecoms firm Telekom the government hopes it will be able to avoid an international bailout. […]
Asian shares capped, though unsuspected US growth spurs Nikkei
May 07, 2013
Jeremy Parkinson
News
Whereas Asian shares have been capped amid ongoing fears of enfeebled global growth, stronger than expected US job data growth has propelled Japanese equities to a near five-year high. European stock markets incited the Asian cap, with financial spreadbetters anticipating London’s FTSE 100, Paris’s CAC-40 and Frankfurt’s DAX to open down as much as 0.3 […]
Spain joblessness hits record highs
Apr 26, 2013
Jeremy Parkinson
News
Data released on April 25 revealed Spanish unemployment to have reached 27.2 percent, the highest such figure at least since the nation’s transition to democracy in 1976 – when records began. The report has fuelled European debate in questioning the proven effectiveness of austerity, with many wishing to switch conversely to reviving economic growth. The […]