The latest Amazon Kindle e-reader Amazon unveiled two lighter, more advanced versions of the Kindle e-reader today, alongside a new UK ebook store that it claimed will send sales of the device soaring in Britain. Faced with growing competition in the e-reader market, Amazon has redesigned the device and has made it available directly from [...]

The City was unmoved after Britain’s leading banks came through the tests with flying colours. Photograph: Frantzesco Kangaris. Britain’s four biggest banks emerged as among the strongest in Europe after seven others in the EU failed a health check of the financial system. Barclays, HSBC and the bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds all [...]

Sony singer Shakira performing Waka Waka with South African band Freshlyground at the World Cup final. Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images Sony boss Sir Howard Stringer clearly enjoyed his World Cup experience, despite missing the Spain-Germany semi-final when his private jet, along with several others, was turned away from an overcrowded Durban airport. Stringer’s company had [...]