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London readies for Raspberry Pi’s first results as a public company September 22, 2024 Raspberry Pi's first set of results since its much-hyped London IPO will be in focus for UK investors this week in a test for the capital's reputation as a listing venue for tech firms.
Google wins £1.3bn case against EU ruling over ad product September 18, 2024 Google has overturned a nearly €1.5bn (£1.3bn) EU fine related to its AdSense advertising platform in a win for the tech giant following two major fines. The General Court has found “errors” in the European Commission’s 2019 assessment of Google’s advertising contracts with publishers. Europe’s second highest court, based in Luxembourg, has annulled the fine [...]
Team17: Video game maker posts record revenue after rocky 2023 September 17, 2024 Video game developer Team17 posted double-digit growth to help it to record revenue in the first half of the year despite a “challenging” new release market. Revenue at the Aim-listed firm, which makes games like Hell Let Loose and Trepang, grew to an all time high of £80.6m in the six months ended June 30, [...]
Deliveroo: Boss Will Shu in £15m pay day after selling millions of shares September 16, 2024 The chief executive and co-founder of Deliveroo has received a pay day of almost £15m after selling more than 9m shares in the London-listed company. Will Shu has disposed of 9.4m shares worth £14.8m between 12 September and 16 September to “cover personal property investments”. Following the sell off, Shu retains 95.8m shares in Deliveroo. [...]
Virgin Media O2 to offload stake in mobile tower network September 13, 2024 Virgin Media O2 has reportedly agreed to offload roughly eight per cent of Britain's biggest mobile tower network as the telecoms group looks to fund the expansion of its fibre broadband and mobile operations.
Garmin predicts further sales boost as wearable fitness tech surges September 11, 2024 Wearable technology giant Garmin has predicted its European sales will surge by 14 per cent in 2024 thanks in part to new products being launched. The Southampton-headquartered division made the forecast in newly-filed accounts with Companies House which revealed an increase in both its turnover and pre-tax profit during 2023. The results show that Garmin [...]
Trustpilot shares jump on earnings beat and £20m buyback September 11, 2024 Shares in Trustpilot have jumped after the global review platform reported higher-than-expected earnings for the first half of 2024 and unveiled a new share buyback. The FTSE 250 firm gained as much as 9.3 per cent in early trading on Wednesday. Its stock price has surged 157 per cent over the last 12 months. Trustpilot [...]
Computacenter’s profit drops nearly a third as UK customers take ‘greater caution’ September 9, 2024 London-based tech firm Computacenter has reported that its profit slumped by nearly a third in the first half of 2024 amid weaker than expect demand in its home market.
Google accused of using its dominance to harm the competition September 6, 2024 Google has been accused of using “anti-competitive practices” which harm thousands of publishers and advertisers in the UK. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it has provisionally found that the US giant could be negatively impacting rivals over open-display advert technology. According to its findings, the watchdog said that when placing digital adverts on [...]
Lloyds Bank and Nationwide hit by online issues as Microsoft reports outage September 2, 2024 Lloyds Bank and Nationwide have apologised to customers for issues affecting their online services amid a report from Microsoft about a fresh outage that affected its public cloud computing platform.