Dragons’ Den star to save Woolworths?
Dragons’ Den star Theo Paphitis is one of several potential
bidders for Woolworths according to some reports. The Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph newspapers claim Theo
Paphitis met with the administrators dealing with Woolworths in London on Friday.
Known for his investments and straight talking in BBC’s Dragons Den,
Mr Paphitis has found his fortune in several companies, including stationers Ryman and Partners and the La Senza
lingerie chain.
Woolworths’ retail activities went into administration on Wednesday last week, with over 30,000 jobs
being put at risk. If Theo wants to add this brand to his list of businesses, he will have to battle it out as it is thought
that up to 10 other groups or individuals are also interested in a takeover.
RT: @tahera has a good day of …
RT: @tahera has a good day of football
ahead of her….down the pub..
- Agreed! I am going for a happy red half of manchester by 15:15!
New Twitter App
The newly released ‘Twitterlights‘ allows users to
highlight internet snippets of text and twitter them. This free application is a quick way of
tweeting something you have come across on the internet, sharing it quickly with your followers. Using software
called i-Lighter, users can connect web content with twitter!
It’s this easy:
Click ‘Start i-Lighting’
If you find something you want to send
to your Twitter followers send it through i-Lighter
On any web page you are reading, Right Click and click Twitter This!
Type
in your 140 character twitter message
The URL of the web page will automatically be sent as a TinyURL
Enter your Twitter
ID and password
Hit send and you’re done!
House Price Plummet Slows
The plummet in house prices slowed down in November with
prices falling by just 0.4%. This according to the Nationwide, the UK’s largest building society. Depite this, house
prices are still 13.9% lower than this time last year.
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Nationwide claim that the price of an average house now stands at
£158,442.
Check out this Viral Marketing!
Check out this awesome video produced for staff
marketing purposes (marketing the company to the staff).
The ordinary calendar month of September was transformed
into “Superhero September” and this internal staff motivational video was produced.
Just had a coding masterclass …
Just had a coding masterclass from coding god @NathanRidley!
Just used the new Traffic Andr…
Just used the new Traffic Android feature – WOW – 15 second bookmarking..
speechless!
SearchWiki
Google recently launched ‘SearchWiki‘ which
allows users logged in to their Google account to mark up Google search results. This new system allows uers to re-rank, delete and
add comments to search results. Although these changes you make will only affect you, it is a brilliant way of
sharing your insight with other searchers.
Below is Google’s lead engineer, Amay, demonstrating some ways to
use SearchWiki.
Facebook awarded Millions
After legal proceedings that lasted four months, Judge Jeremy Fogel awarded
Facebook $873 million in damages against Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital. This individual
had been sending spam messages to Facebook users.
This result is a message to anyone trying to do the same as
Guerbuez. Facebook promise to keep on investing in their forces against spammers, improving technically to keep their
users happy and spam free.
Apple forced to drop iPhone ad
An iPhone television advert has been banned by the advertising
watchdog for exaggerating the phone’s speed. The ad actually showed internet pages loading in seconds with the
3G model of the phone.
Only 17 people complained that this advert mislead them, however it seems like the
advertising standards watchdog agreed with them.
Apple claim they wanted to put the message across to viewers that
the latest 3G model was much faster than the previous.
