Microsoft: Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 and XBox Live down for thousands of users worldwide January 25, 2023 Microsoft is investigating an outage of Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 and XBoxLive after thousands of users worldwide were unable to use the platforms. The service status monitoring website Downdetector reported that thousands of users had reported problems accessing Outlook, Microsoft 365 and XBox Live on Wednesday morning. The site detected 4,132 incidents of people complaining [...]
Crypto news today: Why Flow has sunk 11.9 per cent as Bitcoin price dips two per cent January 25, 2023 The native coin of eco-friendly blockchain Flow has taken a tumble in the last 24 hours, falling 11.9 per cent from its recent high on Monday. It follows a rapid jump in the coin’s value because of the announcement of The Flow mainnet spork, a hard fork which promised to improve the blockchain’s potential transactions [...]
PMQs: Sunak to come under fresh scrutiny today amid Zahawi tax row and calls to fire Tory chair January 25, 2023 Rishi Sunak will come under fresh pressure over Nadhim Zahawi as he resists firing the Tory party chairman despite him being under investigation over his tax affairs. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is likely to seize on the fallout from Mr Zahawi’s multi-million pound settlement at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday. The Prime Minister ordered [...]
The Notebook: Jimmy McLoughlin on ChatGPT, a healthy EY boss and the Scotch industry January 25, 2023 The political aide turned podcast host riffs on ChatGPT, the Scotch industry and RSVPs to the party of the year
Inflation: UK producer prices slow as petrol prices drop below 150p January 25, 2023 The ONS has published the latest PPI update, revealing that rising input prices slowed last month amid easing petrol prices.
Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin lashes out at ‘vast disparity in VAT treatment’ between pubs and supermarket alcohol sales January 25, 2023 Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin has launched a scathing attack on the government, saying the biggest threat to pubs is the “vast disparity in tax treatment” compared to restaurants and supermarkets. The outspoken chain boss said he was “cautiously optimistic” for the financial year ahead, as the firm published its like-for-like sales in the 25 weeks [...]
Pub body slams energy firms over sky-high bills amid calls for Ofgem investigation January 25, 2023 The UK's leading pub body went to war with the country’s energy firms yesterday, accusing them of profiteering.
Easyjet slims losses to £133m as it dreams of profitability with Easter and summer bookings already flying high January 25, 2023 Easyjet expects to deliver a full-year profit after shrinking its quarterly losses by 37 per cent, the company said today, as chief executive Johan Lundgren remained positive about the airline’s preparedness to deal with higher passenger levels this summer. The low-cost carrier announced today that its loss before tax in the three months ended 31 [...]
Briton arrested and facing extradition to US for allegedly helping Russian oligarch with ties to Putin evade sanctions January 25, 2023 A British man has been arrested in Spain for extradition to the US for allegedly helping an oligarch with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin evade sanctions. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) said in a statement that Richard Masters, 52, was arrested by the Spanish Guardia Civil last Friday, though his Russian-Swiss co-accused [...]
FCA calls out consumer duty laggards as deadline for new rules approaches January 25, 2023 The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said that many financial firms still had a long way to go on implementing its incoming Consumer Duty, as it issued its review of the implementation of the scheme. While regulator found that many firms had “understood and embraced the shift to focus on consumer outcomes”, it noted that [...]
