Currys launches £50m buyback as it shrugs off market slowdown July 2, 2026 Currys said it would launch a £50m share buyback after it posted a jump in profit and shrugged off a wider market slowdown by expanding its offerings and cutting its cost base through redundancies. The tech retailer said its UK and Ireland revenue ticked up three per cent to £5.4bn and “outperformed the market” following [...]
World Cup Kick-Off Times Rewrite Hospitality Trading Patterns, Fourth Analysis Reveals July 2, 2026 Fourth, a leading provider of workforce and inventory management software for the hospitality industry with more than 25 years’ experience, has analysed anonymised trading data from over 5,600 customer locations to reveal how this summer’s World Cup is reshaping consumer behaviour across the sector. While England’s opening World Cup fixtures generated a 20% uplift in [...]
Will AI trigger the end of net neutrality? July 2, 2026 Since its inception, the internet has worked for one fundamental reason: net neutrality. This is the principle that internet carriers – broadband and mobile providers – must treat traffic equally, regardless of where it comes from. They cannot discriminate. This idea, noble in its intentions, was what spurred the enormous growth of internet services over [...]
Metapack® Named OneStock’s Strategic Delivery Management Partner July 2, 2026 Partnership connects real-time inventory intelligence with AI-driven global carrier execution across 350+ carriers and 4,000+ delivery services.
As it happened: Stocks rally after US jobs report; Oil tumbles to pre-Iran war levels July 2, 2026 Welcome back to the City AM liveblog. The peace relief rally across markets ground to a halt yesterday as investors were rocked by new tensions in the Middle East that threatened all-out war re-emerging between the US and Iran. Negotiations were handed a blow as Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Qatar [...]
The greatest comms challenge facing business leaders today July 2, 2026 To regain public trust, businesses must ditch the glossy, say-nothing comms and be honest with consumers about the messy reality.
Wayve hands London private market ‘major boost’ with $85m share sale July 1, 2026 Wayve has handed London’s fledgling private markets platform a major boost after unveiling an $85m (£63m) employee share sale. In what has been labelled a “major boost” for the City’s efforts to keep tech firms on home soil, the British autonomous driving unicorn will use the London Stock Exchange’s new Private Intermittent Securities and Capital [...]
Nothing fails to file accounts months after dissolution threat July 1, 2026 Smartphone maker Nothing is still showing overdue accounts months after escaping compulsory dissolution, City AM can reveal, raising questions over the governance of one of Britain’s fastest-growing tech firms. The London-based consumer electronics maker narrowly avoided being struck off the UK company register earlier this year after Companies House launched compulsory strike-off proceedings over missed [...]
London becomes activist capital of Europe as investors pressure firms over AI plans July 1, 2026 London has become the shareholder activist capital of Europe as boardrooms feel the heat of interventions from outspoken investors. The UK’s capital markets were the subject of a staggering 57 per cent of all European campaign activity in the first half of the year, fresh data has found, crossing the 50 per cent threshold for [...]
Vercel and Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team Announce Multi-Year Strategic Partnership July 1, 2026 The agentic infrastructure platform known for speed is joining forces with one of the world's fastest Formula One teams