The number of mortgages approved for house purchases fell at the end of last year to the lowest level since the financial crisis, outside of the pandemic, in early signs of a slowdown in the housing market that is expected ...
Tech Nation, the government-backed agency that has helped 5,000 technology companies to develop and grow, is closing its doors at the end of March, saying that it cannot continue without government funding. Launched in 2011 by then prime minister David ...
AI will be crucial for better understanding user intent, providing tailored content recommendations, and streamlining how firms manage information. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to play a central role in the future of financial services, and advisors are already recognising ...
Infosys, the company founded by Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law NR Narayana Murthy, is in a multimillion-pound dispute with the UK tax authorities. HMRC and the Indian IT services firm, in which the prime minister’s wife, Akshata Murty, holds a stake of ...
Britain faces widespread disruption today as teachers join hundreds of thousands of public sector workers for the biggest day of strike action in more than a decade. About 85 per cent of the 23,000 state schools in England and Wales ...
Tesco has acquired the Paperchase brand out of administration in a deal that puts the future of 106 stores and 820 jobs at the gift and stationery retailer at risk. Administrators from Begbies Traynor were appointed to Paperchase after attempts ...
PayPal announced plans to lay off about 2,000 employees, reducing its global workforce by 7 per cent, as it became the latest technology group to cut costs ahead of an expected slowdown. The payments group said it needed to take ...
SYDNEY — New Zealand will extend the duration of cuts in fuel excise tax and public transport fares until the end of June, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said on Wednesday, in a bid to provide relief to families struggling with higher living costs. Official data out last ...
SEOUL — South Korea’s economy inched toward its first recession in three years as data on Wednesday showed its January trade deficit soared to a record thanks to a plunge in exports caused by a combination of long holidays and cooling global demand. ...
BEIRUT, Jan 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — Rights groups have accused the Saudi Arabian government of “infiltrating” and seeking to control Wikipedia, after the Wikimedia Foundation banned 16 users for engaging in “conflict of interest editing” in the Middle East and North Africa. The ban late last ...