Breadcrumb Trail Links News Musk will shift into role of chief technologist Author of the article: Bloomberg News Aisha Counts, Sarah Frier and Gerry Smith Published May 12, 2023 • Last updated 0 minutes ago • 4 minute read Join the conversation Linda Yaccarino will be Twitter’s new CEO. Photo by Jason Alden/Bloomberg Article content Linda […]
Nearly three quarters of small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) owners feel isolated from their friends and family as a result of the hours they work. A study, of SME leaders and decision makers, found 59% can ‘never switch off’ from their job. This has caused 75% to argue with their loved ones because they’ve spent […]
Three universities have been awarded a share of funding to drive digital innovation across UK SMEs, as part of the HNCDI programme The Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation (HNCDI) programme seeks to improve digital adoption across businesses, targeting funding and support toward UK SMEs – small and medium-sized enterprises. Delivering competitive advantage to these […]
Disney has announced plans to combine content from its Disney+ and Hulu streaming services in the US. The move comes after Disney+ lost four million subscribers in the first three months of the year, and the firm is under pressure to make its streaming business profitable. The home of Mickey Mouse, Star Wars and Marvel […]
The new head of the crisis-hit CBI, Rain Newton Smith, has said she does not take the future of the group “for granted” and warned the task of winning back trust from businesses is “as big as it is urgent”. Newton Smith, who was parachuted in to head Britain’s biggest business group last month, made […]
Ministers will have to “grasp the nettle” on bringing forward the rise in the state pension age to 68 in the first couple of years of the next parliament, Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, has suggested. After delaying the decision because of stalling life expectancy, Stride said it would still have to be […]
Twitter’s CEO, Elon Musk, said on Thursday that he has found a new chief executive for the social media platform and that she will be starting in about six weeks. “My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops,” Musk said in a tweet. However, the billionaire did not […]
The UK economy eked out growth in the first quarter of the year, accelerating at a modest pace to ensure that the economy is not at immediate risk of recession. Quarterly growth between January and March rose by 0.1 per cent compared with the same period last year, in line with economists’ forecasts and matching […]
The Bank of England has raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.5% amid growing concerns about persistently high inflation in the UK. The Bank’s monetary policy committee voted by a majority for a 12th successive increase in borrowing costs, continuing its most aggressive rate-hiking cycle since the 1980s in an […]
The boss of the banking industry body UK Finance has called on social media companies to reimburse victims of online fraud, accusing them of “profiting” from scams taking place on their platforms. Figures from its fraud report show that 78% of authorised push payment scams, where a victim is tricked into approving a transaction, started […]