According to recent research from LinkedIn, almost three-quarters of UK employers are turning to retirees to fill empty job roles
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New York Times to buy subscription sports site the Athletic for $550m
The New York Times has agreed to buy subscription-based sports site the Athletic for $550m (£400m) in cash, as the 170-year-old newspaper adds more digital content to grab subscribers.
Google fined €500m in French news copyright row
France’s competition watchdog has fined Google €500 million after violating an order to agree licensing deals with publishers for using snippets of articles in search results.
Clintons pleads with landlords to reduce rents as 2,500 jobs at risk
Clintons have warned landlords that it urgently needs to shut 66 shops and cut the rent on hundreds more to stave off collapse.
Britain’s best 150 businesses announced as Lloyds Bank National Business Awards finalists
Now in their 18th year as the UK’s flagship awards programme, the shortlist of the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards has been announced.
Queen visits new staff-less Sainsbury’s store for retailers 150 birthday
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth went to Sainsbury’s on Wednesday and was greeted by Lord John Sainsbury to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the retailer.
Crossrail has 500 drivers on payroll despite two-year delay
Almost 500 train drivers are employed by Crossrail on salaries of up to £59,000, even though a fraction of the line’s services are running.
Metro customers pulled £500m after accounting error
Rattled depositors pulled more than £500 million from Metro Bank immediately after its accounting blunder, the embattled bank has said.
Chris Grayling’s no-deal Brexit ferry services scrapped at cost of £50m
Chris Grayling faced fresh calls to resign today as it emerged that controversial ferry contracts for a no-deal Brexit would be cancelled at the cost of £50 million to the taxpayer.
Uber Eats opens its doors to 50,000 UK restaurants
Fifty thousand restaurants in the UK and Ireland can now serve customers with Uber Eats, as the fast growing food delivery app unlocks its technology to restaurants with their own delivery drivers.
Google+ shutting down after bug allowed 500,000 users’ data to be exposed
Google is shutting down much of its social network, Google+, after user data was left exposed.
Shares in spread betting firm Plus500 soar thanks to bitcoin boom
Price jumped 130 per cent last year amid growth in use of derivatives products that allow investors to gamble on cryptocurrencies The growth in gambling on the yo-yoing value of cryptocurrencies using risky derivatives products has helped boost the profits of the financial spread betting firm Plus500, reports The Guardian. The London-listed company’s shares rose […]
Lloyds snubs £500m settlement bid as HBOS merger trial kicks off
Lloyds Banking Group has rejected a last-ditch bid to settle a legal claim over the disastrous merger that created Britain’s biggest high street lender, days before a trial featuring some of the country’s most prominent financiers is due to begin.
Quorn to invest £150m in UK and create 300 jobs
The cash injection comes as the global meat-free brand achieves 19 per cent growth in worldwide sales in the first half of the year.
Rolls-Royce safeguards 7,000 UK jobs after announcing £150m investment
The investment is the firm’s biggest in the UK for more than a decade and is welcomed as a vote of confidence in the economy.