Jack Dorsey’s Square buys majority stake in Tidal as Jay-Z becomes board member

Financial technology company Square said Thursday that it has reached an agreement to acquire majority ownership of Tidal, the music streaming service partly owned by Jay-Z. Square – which was founded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in 2009 – will pay $297 million in cash and stock for Tidal. The deal wil also see Jay-Z … Read more

Exxon appoints two activist investors to board in drive to go green

Exxon Mobil appoints two activist investors to the board amid pressure for the firm to go green By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:58 GMT, 1 March 2021 | Updated: 21:58 GMT, 1 March 2021 Eco drive: Exxon Mobil has appointed two activist investors to the board Exxon Mobil has appointed two activist investors … Read more

Issa brothers appoint Dame Alison Carnwath to EG Group board

Issa brothers beef up board ready for float: Former investment banker Dame Alison Carnwath joins EG Group By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 24 February 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 24 February 2021 The new owners of Asda have appointed another heavyweight director to their petrol station empire to allay concerns … Read more

Women now hold one third of board positions at UK’s largest 350 companies

Women now hold more than a third of board positions in the UK’s 350 largest companies after a 50% surge in five years, a new report has revealed. . The final report from the Hampton-Alexander Review revealed that the number of women on FTSE boards has jumped to 1,026 – up from 682 in 2015. It … Read more

Mum-of-two Chantel Mila reveals how you can take your charcuterie board to perfect level

The secret to the perfect cheese platter: Mum-of-two’s genius styling tricks will take your board to the next level – as she shares her genius ‘salami rose’ method A mum-of-two has revealed how you can easily elevate your charcuterie board Chantel Mila revealed how to make salami roses, strawberry hearts and more Chantel said you … Read more

New owners of house with Banksy ‘Aachoo!’ artwork board it up

The new owners of the house where Banksy left his latest artwork have been branded ‘mean spirited’ after boarding it up so it can’t be seen.  The mural, entitled ‘Aachoo!’, appeared overnight in December on the side of a semi-detached property in Totterdown – on England’s steepest road.  It depicts an elderly woman sneezing, creating the … Read more

Former CBI chief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn to join HSBC’s board

Former CBI chief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn lands HSBC job just a week after joining BAE By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:02 GMT, 16 February 2021 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 16 February 2021 In demand: Dame Carolyn Fairbairn is being lines up to join the board of HSBC Dame Carolyn Fairbairn is set to … Read more

NASA reveals two astronauts who are set to board SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket next year

NASA has revealed two astronauts that will launch on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission. Astronauts Kjell Lindgren, 48, and Bob Hines, 46, have been elected as spacecraft commander and pilot for the mission set to take off in 2022 about a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS). This will be Lindgren’s second … Read more

Former CBI chief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn joins board of BAE 

Former CBI chief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn joins board of defence giant BAE By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 11 February 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 11 February 2021 The CBI’s former boss has joined the board of BAE. Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, who was director general of the business lobby group for … Read more

Seven Albanian stowaways are found on board cargo ship off Dorset coast

Police and Border Force swoop as seven Albanian stowaways are found on board cargo ship off Dorset coast ‘Small number of unidentified individuals’ were found on board vessel yesterday Cargo ship is believed to have loaded at Rouen before arriving off Portland coast  Border Force officials called in alongside local police to deal with the … Read more