Apple’s $700bn smash, Black Friday misery: 10 things we learned this week

1. In the future, cats will change colour when they go near radiation (maybe). Someone’s already written a nursery rhyme about it 

 

2. Londoners take “painting the town red” rather more literally than you might think: by a vast majority, they prefer red wine to any other type, reckons Naked Wines 

 

3. Aviva has a new best Friend (-s Life): the  insurer announced plans to buy its rival this week, to a mixed reception 

 

4. Apple’s value rose to $700bn. It’s now worth 1.7m iPad Minis… 

 

5. Twitter executives make the same social media slip-ups the rest of us do 

 

6. Uber’s latest funding round values it at more than Twitter, Netflix and LinkedIn 

 

7. Opec is willing to sacrifice short-term confidence for long-term stability. The effects on UK oil of its decision not to curb production have been pretty dire.

 

8. Scotland is about to get more power over income tax – but Westminster is determined to keep control of VAT 

 

9. People in the UK go as berserk for a good deal as their US cousins. The result ain’t pretty… 

 

10. The UK’s biggest-ever divorce settlement has happened, and it was worth (wait for it) – £373m