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London Fashion Week: what clothes do Britons import? |
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What is the UK's addiction to clothes worth? As London Fashion Week kicks off, we wanted to work out what the British fashion clothing industry is buying.
We import a lot more clothes than we export, so it makes sense to look at what we bring into the country.
The data from the HMRC, which we extracted from Business Link, provides us with a guide to our shopping habits - and what's up and down.
Read more here. |
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Is the High Street doomed? |
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With the economy turning away from its decade of shopping and borrowing and the march of technology continuing to drive sales on to the internet, the High Street is facing one of its biggest ever challenges.
Retailing has gone through many revolutions before: for example, the rise of the supermarket from the late 1940s which let customers pick things off the shelves themselves.
But, in an era of austerity in which online retailers - free from traditional property and staffing costs and often boasting a vast range of products - are presenting a whole new type of competition, are our High Street shops ready for disruption on that scale now?
Read more here. |
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Sky 'restricting pay-TV film competition' |
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Sky's control over pay-TV movie rights in the UK is restricting competition, leading to higher prices and reduced choice, the Competition Commission has provisionally ruled.
The commission said it was considering whether to restrict the number of Hollywood studios from which Sky currently has the exclusive rights to be the first to air their new releases.
Sky said it continued to consider that no regulatory intervention was needed.
A final ruling is due next year.
Read more here. |
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Sky 'restricting pay-TV film competition' |
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Sky's control over pay-TV movie rights in the UK is restricting competition, leading to higher prices and reduced choice, the Competition Commission has provisionally ruled.
The commission said it was considering whether to restrict the number of Hollywood studios from which Sky currently has the exclusive rights to be the first to air their new releases.
Sky said it continued to consider that no regulatory intervention was needed.
A final ruling is due next year.
Read more here. |
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When the Future Looked Bright for Netscape |
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1995: Netscape Communications stages a successful initial public offering, making it one of the first companies to capitalize on the growing World Wide Web.
The company, whose premium product was the Navigator web browser (originally called Mosaic Netscape 0.9), saw its stock shoot up to $75 per share on the first day of trading, a near-record at the time for any stock's opener.
Netscape Communications, founded by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark, took wing and at one time held 88 percent of the browser market. And, in fact, Netscape made it clear that it intended to make its browsers available across all computer platforms, a declaration that got Microsoft's attention, because it represented a direct threat to Redmond.
Read more here. |
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