Buckingham Palace confirm Queen not dead after Gibbo Whatsapp

Buckingham Palace was forced to confirm the Queen is still alive after vile trolls spread rumours she was dead based on a friends’ Whatsapp group chat.  #Queendead began trending on Twitter after a screenshot of a conversation between a group of friends, including ‘Burnsy, Cheeks, Gibbo, Josh and Morty’, was shared …

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FTSE 250 movers: NewRiver drops, Tullow gushes higher

London’s FTSE 250 was lower by 0.38% at 20,733.26 in afternoon trade on Monday, with NewRiver leading the index downward. The real estate investment trust fell after it announced it had completed its acquisition of Sprucefield Retail Park in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, from Intu. Trainline dropped following the news that …

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Data Ownership – Ethical and Policy Considerations

On the anniversary of the establishment of the World Wide Web, two important characters in the history of the world wide web and the open data institute came out and challenged the vaunted position that “data is the new oil”. These were Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee who …

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