The government has fired the starting gun on a charter review that will determine how the BBC is governed, funded, and held to account. Culture secretary Lisa Nandy on Tuesday …
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BBC charter review opens with trust broken and money running out
The government has fired the starting gun on a charter review that will determine how the BBC is governed, funded, and held to account. Culture secretary Lisa Nandy on Tuesday …
Trump sues BBC for $10bn in Florida, citing producers trips to Mar-a-Lago
US Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the BBC in the Southern District of Florida, alleging that BBC producers travelled to Florida to film “significant portions of the [Panorama] …
Monzo snaps up UK mortgage broker in first major acquisition
UK fintech Monzo has made its first major acquisition with a deal to snap up a digital mortgage broker in a bid bulk up its “all-in-one” superapp. The digital bank …
US puts UK tech deal on ice after Budget digital tax move
Washington has paused the flagship US-UK tech pact just weeks after Rachel Reeves doubled down on Britain’s digital services tax in her Autumn Budget, sharpening fears that the levy has …
Public sector jobs and pay increase while private sector struggles
Public sector employment jumped in September while the number of workers in the private sector fell, official statistics have shown. Employment in the public sector increased by 7,000 in the …
Hummingbird Diagnostics Publishes Study on RNA Biomarker Methylation in Liquid Biopsies
Hummingbird Diagnostics GmbH, a pioneer in harnessing blood-based small RNAs for early disease detection and characterization, today announced the publication of a new study in Nature Communications Medicine introducing an …
Padel match booking firm raises £4.5m in major fund raise
Major padel match booking app Playtomic has raised €5.1m from an investment raise which will see thousands of players become shareholders. The big-money fund raise closed this month with more …
Jobs losses continue in service ssector despite ‘rebound’ in UK growth
Jobs across the services sector declined in December despite some signals of a “rebound” across the UK economy in new survey data. Analysts at S&P Global said staffing numbers across …
ABB Strengthens Data Center and Industrial Monitoring Capabilities with IPEC Acquisition
ABB today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire IPEC, a UK-based technology company with more than 30 years of expertise in electrical diagnostics. IPEC’s advanced monitoring systems …