With little further news following its announcement in May that plans were afoot for Google TV the company has announced that is has now finalized TV content deals with big with major internet and media firms, CNBC, Time Warner’s HBO and Amazon. With set-top boxes from Logitech due to be unveiled on 6 October and [...]

Katharine Meyer Graham was the daughter of Eugene Meyer the multimillionaire owner of The Washington Post. However it was not until she was well into mid-life that the circumstances of her husband Philip Graham’s suicide led to her becoming the newspaper’s de facto publisher in 1963. She hired Ben Bradlee as editor and went onto [...]

The doors of the Paris Motor show are now open to the eager public and will remain so until Sunday 17 October.  The show is at the Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles. Opening hours are 10am to 8pm daily with late nights on Thursday to 10pm. On show will be 332 brands from 21 countries. [...]

Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has  announced plans to realize a long held dream of “Elitism for the masses” by bringing his  Karl Lagerfeld brand to the Internet. With the  tag “Masstige” a mixture of the words mass  and prestige the first online ready to wear collection will be launched this Spring  according Tuesday, a spokesperson [...]

The Internet phone company known as Skype has officially filed for an IPO with the SEC to raise $100 million dollars. Thirty percent of Skype’s stock is owned by eBay, who owned the all of the company until a 2007 sale. Skype said its plans for the money from the IPO would be used for [...]