Monthly Archives: March 2014

HTC may release Android updates even faster in the future

Posted on by Listify Me
Ahead of the anticipated HTC One (M8) announcement, the Taiwanese company has revealed additional details about the handset, on top of everything that’s already known about the device from numerous reports and leaks preceding the event. HTC has published two apps on the Google Play Store, including the BlinkFeed and Service Pack apps, which do more than show the user interface of the upcoming smartphone – they reveal that HTC may be interested in updating these Sense apps using the Google Read more [...]

$1.4M for the house that glass built

Posted on by Listify Me
February’s highest-priced house sale was 2220 Monument Ave. (Submitted photo.) After a streak of expensive deals in the suburbs in recent months, the sale of a Monument Avenue home in February brought the area’s richest residential closing back within the city limits. A three-story home at 2220 Monument Ave. sold for $1.4 million last month, making it the highest-priced home sale in the Richmond area in February, according to Central Virginia Regional Multiple Listing Service. The Read more [...]

Gwynedd council sell off: Two ex-schools, public loos, Grade II listed …

Posted on by Listify Me
Two former schools and two  former toilets are among a  total of 15 properties and plots  being sold by a cash-strapped  council to try and raise some  money. This is the most recent sale of  assets by Gwynedd Council  which has to find £40m in cuts  over three years in its £300m  budget. The former schools are Ysgol  Glanypwll, Blaenau Ffestiniog  which was more recently used  as a factory and rugby club and  Ysgol Coed Menai special  school, Treborth near Bangor  which has been Read more [...]

Sunderland University graduate listed as lost flight MH370 passenger

Posted on by Listify Me
A Sunderland University graduate who “painted pictures with his music” is listed as a passenger on the lost Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.Engineer Huan Peen Chan, 46, spent four years on Wearside between 1992 and 1995 and played organ and piano at the Sunderland Free Church in Stockton Road.The talented musician, who friends called ‘Jesse’, was among 26 employees of Malaysian business Freescale Semiconductor listed as on board the plane when it lost contact with air traffic controllers Read more [...]

Kim Dotcom plans £109m Mega listing on New Zealand stock exchange

Posted on by Listify Me
A company founded by Kim Dotcom, one of the world's most wanted cyber fugitives, while on bail is set to be listed on the New Zealand stock exchange valued at NZ$210m (£109m).The Megaupload founder, who also goes by the name Kim Schmitz, is fighting a bid by US authorities to extradite him from New Zealand to face online piracy charges over the now-closed file-sharing site Megaupload.The New Zealand government arrested Dotcom in early 2012 at his mansion near Auckland in a Swat-style Read more [...]

AIM-listed companies are eroding their own profits

Posted on by Listify Me
Overheads at AIM firms have grown by a fifth since 2008, eating away at profits. Non-core operations for many businesses can be expensive, with wages, legal and accounting costs, in addition to office expenses, amounting to large sums. Indeed, research undertaken my own accountancy firm, SKS Business Services, found that the overheads of 134 AIM-listed companies general and administrative costs (GA), has dramatically increased by 21 per cent since 2008.This Read more [...]

THAT WAS THE WEST THAT WAS: Falmouth Flower Show

Posted on by Listify Me
Comments (0) In March 1947, Falmouth Spring Flower Show was the only one held to be in Cornwall, all the others having been cancelled because of extreme weather. It was reported that exhibits surpassed all expectations, that Queen Marie of Yugoslavia opened the show and Princess Chula Chakrabongse of Siam presided over the second day. These are but a few of the intriguing facts discovered when compiling a brief history Read more [...]

FRANCE: Baker tries Listed tilt with Laurelita

Posted on by Listify Me
Preview: France, Tuesday (1.20pm GMT) Saint-Cloud: Prix la Camargo (Listed) 6f, 3yo fillies GEORGE Baker confesses that there may be an element of "tilting at windmills" when Chepstow maiden winner Laurelita (Ioritz Mendizabal) faces a field of five far more experienced fillies. "It's a big ask but she's in good form, she's travelled over very well and there won't be many six-runner Listed races with a black-type carrot around through the rest of the year," he said. "We are definitely tilting Read more [...]

Washington mudslide death toll could rise; more than 100 listed as unaccounted …

Posted on by Listify Me
DARRINGTON, Wash. — The search for survivors of a deadly Washington state mudslide grew Monday to include scores of people who are still unaccounted for, raising fears that the deep muck could have claimed many more lives than the eight bodies found so far.In a race to find loved ones, family members and neighbors used chain saws and their bare hands to pick through wreckage that was tangled by the mud into piles of filthy debris.Authorities said they were looking for more than 100 people Read more [...]

Celebrating Founder Robert Simon’s Birthday, Reston’s 50th Anniversary

Posted on by Listify Me
This landmark year of 2014 will honor two very special events in the history of Reston, according to the Reston Chamber of Commerce. The first Reston residents moved into their homes at Lake Anne 50 years ago, and 50 years later, Reston founder Robert E. ("Bob") Simon Jr. is celebrating his 100th birthday in the community he created. Reston is celebrating with commemorative “50/100” events throughout the year and various organizations in the community are presenting special Read more [...]