The time has come for a football regulator with teeth November 25, 2021 The point of free-market capitalism, which this paper subscribes to with whole-hearted support, is not that the animal forces of supply and demand should be left perfectly unchecked. For that reason, we set a level playing field – from the Financial Conduct Authority to the Competition and Markets Authority, we put safeguards in place to [...]
Apple supplier IQE predicts profit plunge as wafer shortage starts to bite November 24, 2021 Semiconductor wafer specialists IQE suffered a 27 per cent drop in shares after it released severe profit warnings amid softening supply.
Apple sues cyber firm NSO for alleged surveillance of US users November 23, 2021 Apple has filed a lawsuit against Israeli spyware firm NSO Group and its parent company for alleged surveillance and targeting of US Apple users. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Apple has accused cyber firm NSO and its owner OSY Technologies for spying on Americans with its Pegasus spyware. It is hoping to ban NSO [...]
Italy’s antitrust authority issues whopping €200m fine to Amazon and Apple November 23, 2021 Italy's antitrust authority has fined Amazon and Apple more than €200m (£168m) in the latest sign that the EU is cracking down on big tech.
Retailers are using experiences, not goods, to keep high street fashion on trend November 22, 2021 A short stroll along Oxford Street these days doesn’t necessarilly fill retail fans with confidence. A phalanx of American candy stores, souvenir shops of questionable quality and ‘to let’ signs have blossomed after the pandemic, and House of Fraser last week became the latest bricks and mortar flagship to announce it would be closing its [...]
Nintendo Switch is the UK’s most searched Black Friday deal November 22, 2021 The Nintendo Switch is the most anticipated tech for Black Friday in the UK, new research has revealed.
Chimp-trekking and clifftop archery in Rwanda November 19, 2021 I’m on my hands and knees, mud-caked and scratched to pieces, while a sticky-legged insect is meandering its way down the back of my neck. Somewhere in front of me I can hear the gentle snick snick of machetes slicing through corkscrew ferns and above me murky sunlight bleeds through the thick forest canopy. I [...]
Three reasons why your strategy isn’t working November 18, 2021 Why is it that while all firms have strategies, some are more successful than others? Certain firms do have a first-mover advantage in offering services and products to their customers and extracting value that competitors cannot. Others are able to reinvent themselves in a way that competitors are unable to match. Whatever the approach taken, [...]
Apple to sell spare parts so iPhone users can complete repairs from home November 17, 2021 Apple has announced plans to sell iPhone parts to the general public so that they can carry out their own repairs from home. At first the scheme will be rolled out to US iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 holders with the company confirming it has plans to expand the scheme to some Mac products and [...]
Celebrating the women in wine November 16, 2021 Only five per cent of the Chef de Caves in Champagne are women and Caroline Latrive of Champagne AYALA is one. Wanting to do something about this disparity, she partnered with SquareMeal to support the Female Chef Of The Year Award, a similar industry where male chefs outnumber women at a rate of over four [...]