Business

July 10, 2019 Heineken-owned Star Pubs & Bars is set to be investigated over suspicions it imposed improper terms on the owners of the pubs in relation to cutting the ‘beer tie’. A ‘beer tie’ means these tenants and owners are legally obligated t...

July 10, 2019 British Airways is set to be fined a record £183m after a breach saw over half a million of its customer’s personal data exposed. The breach, as described by The Information Commissioner’s Office, was first disclosed on September 6, 201...

A $15 billion deal to supply Israeli natural gas to Egypt has been criticised as poor value by one of the country’s top investment banks. Under the terms of the deal, Israel’s Delek Drilling will export natural gas to Egypt for 10 years. The gas deal...

A recent study by Which? has discovered that there looks set to be huge changes in the UK Cash Machine market. At the start of the year there were about 52,000 free ATMs in the UK, already in 2019 over 1700 of these have started to charge for withdra...

Even if you have the best oral hygiene routine, and there is still a chance that you could lose one or more of your teeth during your lifetime. Why Dental Implants? Developments in the dental care industry have been booming with new advanced techniqu...

In recent years Japan has been hit with a social and economic crisis. With an ageing population, deflation and a huge level of national debt. One of the major areas that has been hit by these issues is the unskilled labour force. In industries such a...

The Low-cost Icelandic airline WOW Air announced that they were shutting down and cancelled all flights on March 28 2019, leaving 4,000 passengers stranded. The low-cost carrier advised all of its passengers to find available flights with alternative...

Responding to the recent fatal crash in Ethiopia; China, Indonesia, Singapore and Australia suspended the Boeing 737 Max 8 jets from their skies. Subsequently, another 30 other countries, including the US have also banned the aircraft pending an inve...

Founded in 2006 by brothers Yoni Assia and Ronen Assia together with David Ring, eToro has grown to become the world’s leading social trading platform. Social trading platforms are a mixture of traditional brokerage and social media websites. For peo...

What Wi-Fi version do you currently carry? Many people won’t be able to answer this question as very few people care to remember a long 808 number that identifies their Wi-Fi system. The start of 2019 has not only seen the introduction of a new Wi-Fi...

Following in the wake of the GDPR announcement in May 2018, 2019 has started with some of the world’s largest companies being innvestigated for breaches in the new regulation. As part of the General Data Protection Regulation, customers had the right...

Apple have confirmed that their users will be able to watch iTunes bought content on Samsung devices such as their smart televisions using one of their apps. The deal is part of an ongoing strategy shift for Apple, which is facing weak hardware sales...

Marks and Spencer has today announced that it is joining forces with Octopus Energy in a new partnership to supply household energy under the M&S Energy brand, once its current deal with SSE ends in September. M&S said the new deal with chall...

Uber have announced their interest in the takeaway market, and in particular their interest in Deliveroo. Deliveroo currently operates within 290 cities around the world, bringing in a total annual revenue of around $6 billion. With competitors such ...

Mark Zuckerberg is currently Facebook’s chairman and CEO; however, the board are beginning to doubt Zuckerberg’s ability to maintain both roles and instead appoint a new director of the board. These demands come very soon after a continuation of scru...

Back in September 2017, Amazon ‘kicked off a continent-wide competition by announcing a search for a second headquarters’. It’s now 14 months later and Amazon have a winner, well actually 2 winners. They have announced that they will build two new co...

It’s been just over a month since the Google Pixel 3 event yet the excitement surrounding the new Google products is still very much in the air. It seems like perfect timing from Google to be announcing their new range with Christmas right around the...

McDonald’s is known to pay its staff minimum wage. However, it could be beneficial to both McDonalds and their staff to give a bonus based on how many customers they serve. It would be fair because it will compensate employees for the growing intensi...

“If you want to worry about something in the next two to three years, this is it”. These are the words of an investment chief, Anton Pil of J.P. Morgan who manages $100b worth of investment. He wasn’t talking about pollution or overpopulation, but in...

Caitlin Young is one of millions of teenagers and 20-somethings who are shaking up the fashion industry by digging out their parents’ cast-offs, raiding charity shops and scanning boot sales to build mini businesses online. Young picks up 1990s and “...

Ralf Speth, the boss of Jaguar Land Rover, said that such an outcome would lead to the closure of plants and major job losses as he warned that some exposed industries would have “no way to survive a hard Brexit”. His stark intervention comes as Down...

A partnership between the private hire firm Addison Lee and the British driverless car pioneers Oxbotica have targeted 2021 as the year they want to launch their new self-driving cars. Oxbotica will start mapping more than 250,000 miles of public roa...

Profits at Dr Martens have increased by a third as the Northamptonshire-based boot brand got a kick from a 90s fashion revival. The rise was led by a surge in demand across Europe, where the company opened 16 new stores, taking its total worldwide to...

Amazon employees jump for joy when they hear the news that their minimum wage will rise up to $15 an hour beginning from the start of November. Amazon just signalled that it's preparing for retail's so-called "war for talent." While CEO Jeff Bezos im...