Browsing Category
Business
Union-tracking software proposed by Amazon
The memo, viewed by website Recode and not disputed by Amazon, discusses plans for a system that would analyse data on unions alongside other threats to the company such as weather and crime.
Last month Amazon advertised for two!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Victory in battle against ‘thuggish’ debt letters
Long-standing laws require warnings about potential court action to be written in bold or in block capitals.
A campaign by the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute claimed the letters were counter-productive and worsened mental!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Tesco profits surge as online orders double
Pre-tax profit for the 26 weeks to 29 August was £551m, 28.7% up on 2019.
It is Tesco's first set of results under its new chief executive, Ken Murphy, who started last week.
He replaces Dave Lewis, who had been running the UK's!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Phone bill charges of £1,200 added ‘without permission’
That's how Sally Giles describes the moment she discovered she'd been charged £4.50 each week, every week for more than five years "without knowledge or permission".
The charge - which totalled more than £1,200 - was added to her phone!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Bounce back loans: Taxpayers may lose £26bn on unpaid loans
Up to 60% of emergency pandemic loans made under the Bounce Back scheme may never be repaid, a report by the government's spending watchdog says.
The National Audit Office (NAO) said taxpayers could lose as much as £26bn, from fraud,!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
US tightens temporary worker visa rules
These visas are widely used by tech firms and visa recipients are mostly Indian and Chinese.
The temporary visas are intended to allow US companies to use foreign workers to fill skills gaps.
But the Trump administration says the!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Coronavirus: Can China’s Golden Week boost Asia’s economies?
China accounts for almost one-fifth of the world's international tourism according the United Nations World Tourism Organisation.
But this year, the pandemic has made international travel nearly impossible. So they're travelling locally!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Hong Kong will stay a key financial hub say experts
New security laws and protests are unlikely to scare off investors to other countries.
Supporting this, Hong Kong's stock exchange raised $11bn from 59 new listings in the first half of 2020.
And the blockbuster debut of Ant Group is!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Worst September for UK car sales this century
New UK car registrations fell 4.4% in September from a year earlier, according to the motor industry.
That made it the worst September this century in what is normally the industry's second most important month.
There were just!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Trump Covid: US shares drop after president tests positive
US stock markets have opened lower after Donald Trump said he had tested positive for coronavirus.
All three of America's main indexes - the Dow Jones, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq - fell by between 1% and 2.2% when trading began on!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...