WPP sales down again despite uptick in new business April 28, 2026 WPP saw its revenue fall by more than six per cent in the first three months of 2026, piling pressure on the advertising giant’s turnaround plan just two months after it was unveiled. The FTSE 250 holding group saw its sales fall by 6.6 per cent to £3bn in the first quarter, while revenue less [...]
Microsoft and Postel: An Innovative New Data and AI-Driven Solution to Optimize Italian SMEs’ Relationships with Their Customers April 28, 2026 Microsoft and Postel, a Poste Italiane Group company, announce an evolution of their collaboration and of the agreements they have signed for the digitalization of Italian businesses, welcoming Audiencerate as technology partner in the Data and Direct & Digital Marketing space. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260427013396/en/ The agreement provides [...]
King’s Cross puts London on the AI map April 28, 2026 A description of King’s Cross a little over 20 years ago sounds like something from a Dickens novel. It was “a place of decay, dereliction, crime and filth” – known for drugs and prostitution. Some readers may remember its rave scene but for most people it was a no-go area. That opening description comes from [...]
OG&E to Host Bidgely EmPOWER AI 2026 Annual Conference in New York City April 23, 2026 Alabama Power, Eversource, NV Energy, PSEG Long Island, Xcel Energy and others to share real-world insights on turning intelligence into operational excellence
Can an AI make art? And would it be worth looking at? April 23, 2026 The last year has seen artificial intelligence disrupt almost every industry – but can it really create art? Chris Dorrell speaks to artists working with AI and meets a robot painter In a darkened room in Camden, I kneel at an altar, pressing buttons on an illuminated red keyboard. Embossed with the shapes of human [...]
IGI Announces That It Has Filed Its Full Year 2025 Annual Report on Form 20-F, Including Audited Financial Statements, With the SEC April 22, 2026 International General Insurance Holdings Ltd. (“IGI” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: IGIC) today announced that it has filed its Annual Report on Form 20-F, which includes the Company’s audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2025, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The report was filed on April 21, 2026 and can [...]
Scottish Mortgage manager Baillie Gifford eyes £3bn return on historic Space X bet April 22, 2026 Scottish investment juggernaut Baillie Gifford is in line to net a bumper £3.5bn return on its historic bet on Space X when the rocket maker floats on the stock market later this year, in what is believed to be one of the largest windfalls from a single debut in UK investment history. A City AM [...]
McDonald’s targets jobless Gen Z with ‘UK’s largest work experience programme’ April 22, 2026 McDonald’s has launched the UK’s largest ever work experience programme in a major recruitment drive that will specifically target the ballooning number of young Brits that are neither working nor in full-time education. The fast-food chain will hand out some 2,500 paid placements to young workers over the age of 16 as part of a [...]
Chip makers and defence contractors power profit upgrade for London tech stock Renishaw April 20, 2026 London-listed engineer Renishaw upped its profit guidance on Monday, sending its shares to the top of the FTSE 250, helped by demand from defence contractors and chipmakers. The Gloucestershire-based precision tech firm is known for its precision equipment used in the lithography process of making microprocessors. On Monday, it pointed to “a substantial expansion” of [...]
Bank of England’s Breeden warns Iran war could set off bond and private credit crisis April 17, 2026 The energy crisis set off by Donald Trump’s war in Iran has made a financial crash more likely, according to the Bank of England’s financial stability chief, who warned that private credit, sky-high sovereign debt and stock market exuberance posed salient threats to the global economy. Sarah Breeden, the central bank’s deputy governor for financial [...]