Category: Business

Netflix will raise prices across a number of countries after adding nearly 19 million subscribers in the final months of 2024. The streaming firm said…

View More Netflix to raise prices as Squid Game and sport fuels subscribers

The chair of the UK’s competition watchdog has been ousted by government ministers who felt that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had failed to…

View More Government ousts UK competition watchdog chair

Getty Images Squishmallows proved to be popular again Toys sold for less than £15 accounted for nearly half of the UK market last year, as…

View More Nearly half of toys sold under £15 as parents cut costs

Getty Images UK pay after inflation has risen at its fastest rate for more than three years, driven by strong wage growth in the private…

View More Pay after inflation rises at fastest rate since 2021

President Trump has signed an executive order granting TikTok a 75-day extension to comply with a law that requires a sale or ban of the…

View More President Trump signs executive order delaying TikTok ban

Public ownership of the UK’s railways is not a “silver bullet” for guaranteeing a better service for passengers, the transport secretary has said. Heidi Alexander…

View More Rail nationalisation not a silver bullet, says Labour government

Incoming first lady Melania Trump has launched a cryptocurrency on the eve of her husband’s inauguration as US president. The announcement comes after President-elect Donald…

View More Melania Trump launches cryptocurrency on eve of inauguration

BBC Lord Rose said working practices had regressed since the pandemic Working from home is creating a generation who are “not doing proper work”, the…

View More Working from home is ‘not proper work’, says ex-Asda boss

BBC Latonya only learned she had a Child Trust fund when a tutor at her college told her about the scheme Latonya Skye-Paterson had no…

View More Child trust funds worth £1.4bn still unclaimed

BBC Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones appearing on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg President-elect Donald Trump will want to do a good deal with…

View More Donald Trump will want a good deal with UK, says minister

Watch: How TikTok ‘went dark’ in the US Analysts have suggested it is “just matter of time” until the US ban on TikTok spreads to…

View More TikTok ban likely to spread to US allies

TikTok has gone offline in the US, hours before a new law banning the platform was due to come into effect. A message appearing on…

View More TikTok goes offline in the US hours before ban comes in

Anne Thompson Anne and Will Thompson have adapted to their living arrangements Energy prices rising, rents soaring at 9% a year, house prices at –…

View More Why adult kids can’t leave home

Getty Images Apple has suspended a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that drew criticism and complaints for making repeated mistakes in its summaries of news…

View More iPhone AI news alerts halted after errors