Archive for 'Technological Businesses' Category
Airbus reports record orders for 2011
Plane maker Airbus has reported record orders for 2011 but has warned that demand for new planes will fall sharply this year.The company said it received 1,419 orders worth about £91 billion ($140 billion) last year, compared with 805 for its fierce US rival Boeing. Demand for the fuel-efficient A320NEO medium-haul jet was particularly strong, [...]
Bloomsbury sales improve with ebook success
Publisher Bloomsbury has reported strong fourth quarter trading, helped by cook books and a 38% jump in ebook sales.The firm said its bestsellers included River Cottage Veg Everyday by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and Heston at Home by Heston Blumenthal. Bloomsbury also said that its sales of Harry Potter box sets continued to be strong. It added [...]
Next sales grow as online business outperforms
Next has reported that its autumn and pre-Christmas sales grew after buoyant online business trading.Total sales at the clothes retailer between 1 August and 24 December rose 3.1% compared with a year earlier, ignoring the effect of rising VAT. However it’s Next Directory sales grew by 16.9%. But its High Street business, which sees some [...]
Apps downloads hit record high at the end of December
For the first time more than a billion apps have been downloaded in a single week according to new research.Analytics firm Flurry said 1.2 billion apps were downloaded in the last week of December. Activity was buoyed by the facts that many users received new devices for Christmas and firms offered discounted apps over the [...]
Luxury carmaker Bentley sees sales rise 37% in 2011
Luxury carmaker Bentley has reported a 37% rise in sales in 2011, claiming global demand has returned to pre-recession levels.The Crewe-based firm sold 7,003 cars, whose prices start at £133,000, in the year to December 31. The US continues to be Bentley’s number one market with 2,021 cars sold in 2011, an increase of 32%. [...]
JCB creates new 350 jobs
JCB is creating more than 350 jobs as part of a new £31 million engine development project.The firm said it would recruit more than 300 people across its Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Wrexham factories between 2016 and 2021. The company said it was also currently recruiting for 50 jobs at JCB Power Systems in Foston. JCB [...]
Airbus announces 200 engineering jobs at Filton, Bristol
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has announced 200 new jobs at its base in Filton, near Bristol.The company says the new engineering jobs are due to demand for its A350 passenger plane and government investment in the plant. The lightweight composite aircraft was due to come into service in 2013 but will now enter service in the [...]
Mobile phone firms offer better service Ofcom watchdog finds
Consumers are more satisfied with their mobile phone provider than they are with landline or broadband suppliers, research has indicated.Communications regulator Ofcom has conducted the latest of its regular samples of customer satisfaction. Seven in 10 customers were happy with the service from their mobile provider – often after calling about their package or service. [...]
Engineering prize to be worth £1 million
A £1 million engineering prize – named after the Queen – is to be awarded for exceptional advances in engineering.The prize, funded by an endowment from a number of engineering companies, will be awarded biannually to an individual or team of up to three people. It is designed to raise the profile of engineering and [...]
Intel produces one teraflop computer chip
Intel has developed an accelerator chip capable of running at speeds of one teraflops, equal to one trillion calculations per second.The firm showed off the chip, dubbed Knights Corner, on a test machine at a supercomputing conference in Seattle. Computer power on this scale is used to solve a range of problems in fields such [...]