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  • The 99p tool that could save you up to £350 on your energy bills this winter

    Energy bills are set to rise by £149 for the average household from October after Ofgem announced it would be raising its energy price cap

  • Rayner at odds with Business Secretary over workers’ rights reforms

    Angela Rayner is facing opposition from the Business Secretary over plans to hand workers full employment rights from day one in a job, amid a growing backlash from bosses.

  • Europe's EV troubles bubble up at Brussels Audi factory

    Outside an Audi factory in Brussels described by the German carmaker as the "cradle" of its electric drive, around 200 picketing workers huddled around a bonfire in the morning drizzle."They screwed up with electric," Karim Chawki, 52, a picketing worker, said.

  • Food fight: Airlines are going to war over feeding their wealthiest passengers

    If you are fortunate enough to take a Qatar Airways business-class flight from Heathrow to Doha these days, you are in for a new treat. Qatar is the first airline to serve caviar in business class. Airlines usually only serve it in first class, and even then, not all airlines. British Airways stopped serving it years ago.

  • Southend Council set to take action against chippy over huge silver tube installed

    Councillors will discuss a planning breach at 186 Leigh Road, Leigh, at a Development Control Committee meeting on Wednesday

  • What’s going on with the Phoenix Group share price?

    The Phoenix Group share price has had a rough time lately, down nearly 20% in five years. But with shifting demographics, is there an opportunity? The post What’s going on with the Phoenix Group share price? appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.

  • EV sales are still growing. So why are carmakers pulling back?

    Some of the headlines about electric vehicles lately might give the impression that the market is headed for a crash. But new data shows electric vehicle sales are still growing in Canada, and have hit a record high.More than 65,000 new zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) — meaning battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric — were registered in the second quarter of this year, according to Statistics Canada. That's equal to 12.9 per cent of all vehicle registrations. Over the same period five years

  • Jamie Dimon’s right hand man is ready to lead JP Morgan—but time is not on his side

    Dimon recently called Daniel Pinto his ‘hit-by-a-bus’ successor, but that doesn't mean the top job awaits.

  • India's market watchdog chief is addressing conflict of interest claims, Finance Minister says

    Securities and Exchange Board of India chair Madhabi Puri Buch has faced criticism from U.S. short seller Hindenburg Research and Indian opposition parties about alleged conflicts of interest in investigations related to the Adani Group and other corporate entities. Buch has denied all allegations.

  • Recruiter says there's 'correct' way to answer simple interview question

    Although it's a simple question it needs more than just a straightforward answer as recruitment expert Emily revealed. However, not everyone agrees with her suggestion

  • The ‘symbiotic relationship’ that makes selling a house in Australia so damn expensive

    Dimitri Chrisis thought he would save money by ditching his real estate agent, but instead it meant the advertising campaign on his suburban home would cost thousands more

  • Why Britain is running out of pilots – and how to become one

    British pilots are in demand. Riyadh Air, Saudi Arabia’s fledgling airline, has been accused of poaching our pilots – offering higher salaries and better perks. This, in combination with a post-Covid retirement boom, means that airlines like Virgin Atlantic, British Airways and easyJet are facing a struggle to keep their rosters full. And Riyadh Air isn’t the only airline tempting the country’s pilots away from home-grown carriers, with Gulf rivals Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways all expandin

  • Amazon to mandate 5 days a week in office in 2025

    STORY: Amazon is bringing an end to working from home at the e-commerce giant, telling employees they will be required to return to the office five days a week starting next year.In a letter posted to the company’s website on Monday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wrote (quote):“…before the pandemic, it was not a given that folks could work remotely two days a week, and that will also be true moving forward—our expectation is that people will be in the office outside of extenuating circumstances.”Companies have been allowing many employees to work from home since the pandemic, leaving downtown offices nearly empty in a number of cities.But Amazon has taken a tougher stance than many of its rivals.Some employees who were consistently out of compliance with the existing three-day mandate were told they were "voluntarily resigning," and were locked out of Amazon's systems.In May of last year, workers at Amazon's Seattle headquarters staged a walkout protesting a return-to-office mandate as well as changes to the company's climate policy and layoffs.According to an employee Q&A shared with Reuters, Amazon is also is eliminating a prior program that allowed workers the option to work from anywhere for four months per year.

  • As Chinese AI and GPU demand heats up, a Hong Kong data centre turns to liquid cooling

    Global Switch, a data centre operator controlled by China's state-backed Jiangsu Sha Steel Group, said demand from mainland artificial intelligence firms in Hong Kong is driving a need for new direct-to-chip cooling solutions it has started providing in the city. "We've seen a huge increase in demand for higher and higher density racks," said Ben Ryder, solutions engineering director at Global Switch. "In the last two years, we've seen requirements for 20 kilowatts [per rack] initially, 40 to 50

  • Automatically enrol young staff into workplace pension schemes, says IFS

    Thinktank says with up to 40% of staff on track for inadequate funds even 16-year-olds should be signed up

  • High Growth Tech Stocks To Watch In September 2024

    As global markets rebound and technology stocks lead the charge, investors are keenly watching high-growth sectors for potential opportunities. With the S&P 500 Index recovering from recent losses and growth stocks outpacing value shares, it's an opportune time to explore what makes a strong tech stock in this dynamic environment.

  • "Support us or lose us" Pubs say they are worried amid cost of living crisis

    Zoe Matthews, 55, who owns the Six Bells in Burghfield with her business partner Debbie Rumblow says that it is a weekly task to keep their heads above water.

  • US regulatory power faces fresh test as new Supreme Court term nears

    A case involving the vape industry gives the U.S. Supreme Court a chance to further erode the authority of federal regulatory agencies following other major rulings as the justices gird for a new term featuring important business-related questions. The nine-month term, which begins on Oct. 7, also brings cases involving tech giants Nvidia and Meta's Facebook that could make it harder for private plaintiffs to win securities fraud lawsuits against companies in federal courts. The vape industry case is the latest front in a regulatory rollback effort in the courts cheered by conservatives and business interests to weaken the federal agency bureaucracy that interprets laws, crafts federal rules and implements executive action.

  • Phoenix Group discontinues Sunlife sale as firm reports profit boost

    Sunlife is a major provider of financial protection products, including life insurance, directly to Britons aged over 50.

  • Exclusive-How Intel lost the Sony PlayStation business

    Intel lost out on a contract to design and fabricate Sony’s PlayStation 6 chip in 2022, which dealt a significant blow to its effort to build its fledgling contract manufacturing business, according to three sources with knowledge of the events. The effort by Intel to win out over Advanced Micro Devices in a competitive bidding process to supply the design for the forthcoming PlayStation 6 chip and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co as the contract manufacturer would have amounted to billions of dollars of revenue and fabricating thousands of silicon wafers a month, two sources said. Intel and AMD were the final two contenders in the bidding process for the contract.