The technology-led, multichannel marketing activation business Team ITG it has acquired Emerald Thinking Group, a data-driven customer experience agency. Emerald, which already works alongside ITG on major brands such as Wickes, has been purchased from current shareholders Red Brick Road ...

Seasons come and seasons go, but in the business world, they aren’t always equal. From Christmas retailers and ice cream vans, to holiday let businesses and tax preparation companies, there are so many organisations out there that operate on a ...

The Bank of England has delivered its ninth consecutive interest rate rise, taking the cost of borrowing to 3.5 per cent. Officials at the central bank voted to increase interest rates by 0.5 percentage points in a bid to control ...

WASHINGTON — Vietnam has conducted a major expansion of dredging and landfill work at several of its South China Sea outposts in the second half of this year, signaling an intent to significantly fortify its claims in the disputed waterway, ...

WASHINGTON — The US Senate late on Wednesday passed by voice vote a bill to bar federal employees from using Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok on government-owned devices. The bill must still be approved by the US House of Representatives ...

TOKYO — All new houses in Tokyo built by large-scale homebuilders after April 2025 must install solar power panels to cut household carbon emissions, according to a new regulation passed by the Japanese capital’s local assembly on Thursday. The mandate, ...

KYIV — Russia ruled out a “Christmas ceasefire” after nearly 10 months of war in Ukraine and rejected a call by Kyiv to start withdrawing troops by Christmas as a step to end Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II. ...

Two ticket touts who were jailed for fraud related to large-scale ticket reselling have been ordered to pay £6.2m in a confiscation order. Peter Hunter, 53, and David Smith, 68, were sentenced to prison in February 2020 after a three-month ...

Union leaders, the rail minister and industry chiefs are scheduled for showdown talks on Thursday after industrial action on the rail network brought the UK to a standstill for the second day in a row. Only 20% of services were ...

Britons have saved almost £3m by using tumble dryers and other power-hungry devices at quieter times, under a scheme that aims to reduce the strain on electricity networks, National Grid has said. The electricity system operator (ESO) launched an initiative ...