Aviva Save: Investment giant launches a cash savings platform

Insurance and investment giant Aviva has launched its own cash savings platform, This is Money can reveal, but savers will earn more by going to the banks directly. Britain’s largest insurance firm’s answer to the likes of Hargreaves Lansdown Active Savings and Flagstone has opened with 15 fixed-rate bonds offered by Aldermore, Oaknorth and Paragon … Read more

Lottie Moss offers visitors to social media platform Glow chance to see her in a bikini-clad video

TALK OF THE TOWN: Fans see a lot more of Lottie Moss as model offers visitors to social media platform Glow the chance to see her in a bikini-clad video for £3.60 By Alistair Foster, Joanna Bell And Sophie Cockerham For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:06 GMT, 14 February 2021 | Updated: 01:14 GMT, … Read more

Raindrop: New platform offering Sipps to the self-employed

A new platform specifically designed for the self-employed workforce is now open and has bold aims of convincing millions of people without a pension to start saving for retirement. Raindrop will allow users to be flexible with their monthly contributions and pay into their pension either from their own account or via their limited company, … Read more

Panda tugs at bamboo branch and topples off wooden platform

Eats shoots and leaves… dramatically: Hungry panda tugs at bamboo branch and topples off wooden platform The giant panda eats bamboo leaves at Chongqing Zoo in southwest China Animal rolls over edge of the platform as the other pandas continue eating  Panda falls onto the ground and drags the huge branch of bamboo with it  … Read more

Alan Yentob urges BBC bosses to make their output more like a social media platform

Alan Yentob urges BBC bosses to make their output more like a social media platform to lure in younger audiences Former BBC1 controller Alan Yentob said BBC should act more like social media  Said it should be more of ‘playground’ like Youtube where young talent emerges  Encouraged BBC to open up arts and culture archive … Read more

Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning joins music platform Serenade

Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning joins music platform Serenade where fans can enjoy a private one-on-one gig with the singer for a whopping $1,000 By Zoe Burrell For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:59 GMT, 30 January 2021 | Updated: 02:00 GMT, 30 January 2021 Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning is the latest artist to join Serenade, a … Read more

Spotify adds nine classic audiobooks to its platform as a ‘test to improve user experience’

  Spotify adds nine classic audiobooks like Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ and Charles Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’ narrated by celebrities including Hilary Swank and Forest Whitaker Spotify is testing audiobooks and has added nine classics the its library They include Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ and Kate Chopin’s ‘The Awakening’ Each is narrated by a celebrity like Hilary Swank … Read more

Google’s mobile platform is getting a ‘bubblier’ makeover that features an edge-to-edge design

New Year, new Google! The search giant’s mobile platform is getting a ‘bubblier’ makeover that features an edge-to-edge design and rounder elements Color will be used ‘more intentionally’ to highlight info without being distracting Text will be bolder and bigger, with more Google fonts used throughout Results will fill up the screen with an edge-to-edge … Read more

Household chore platform TaskRabbit soars in 2020 thanks to pandemic

Jamie Sheridan is a tasker in Manchester Jamie Sheridan, based in Manchester, started tasking part-time in September to earn more money for his family. He works for a large energy provider, and has been working from home on a permanent basis since March.  He found being desk-bound with a slower pace of life difficult so … Read more