Richard Harvey has surprised us all by announcing he is stepping down as chief executive of Aviva, a post he has held since the group was formed through the merger of Norwich Union and CGU in 2000.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his officials on Tuesday to
discuss steps to resume the country’s pipeline oil flows to Europe,
halted since Monday due to a trade spat with Belarus, industry sources
said
The BBCâs chairman, Michael Grade, has sensationally switched-over to become executive chairman of ITV.His resignation from the BBC, revealed by the Telegraph yesterday, is
effective immediately, enabling him to take control swiftly at the
corporationâs biggest...
Sweden's Goran Ehlme won the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition
for his photograph âBeast of the sedimentâ. The image of a walrus
whipping up a cloud of sediment at the bottom of a...
Some positive news has been revealed in the Search world today, namely that Google MSN and Yahoo have all agreed to support a unified system of submitting web pages to their crawlers.
Smiling faces have been popular on the Web and in text messages for years. Now search engine Ask likes and uses them too. A search for :-/ on Ask reveals that the emoticon typically means sceptical, uncertain or wry.
"Universal Music, the world’s largest music company, is backing a start-up that will allow consumers to download songs for free. It will rely on advertising for its revenues, offering a different business model from that of Apple Computer’s popular iTunes music store."
"John Reid, UK home secretary, on Wednesday urged his European counterparts to adopt tighter anti-terror measures across the continent, along the lines of those adopted by Britain."
"Sony on Tuesday said it would pay some of the costs involved in Dell’s recall of millions of notebook computer batteries made by the Japanese company."
"There's movement in the social networking arena as Google launches a new version of Blogger in beta form, and a British pensioner finds fame after posting his first video on YouTube."
"Three of Britain's biggest airlines are uniting to call on the British Airports Authority to pay some of the £250m of costs airlines are estimated to have incurred since the current security crisis began."
Yahoo have updated their SiteExplorer suite for webmasters. Popular Yahoo search commands such as "link:" and "site:" now automatically work via SiteExplorer.
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