Well, you know, but anything that kills the CBI……
But on Tuesday morning Threadneedle Street informed the CBI that it would no longer be appropriate for the Governor to attend, the Telegraph understands. The move came just hours after new allegations...
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Amazon is offering French staff up to a year’s pay to get them to leave as the tech giant struggles to cut thousands of workers in the EU. The online retailer has been trying to tempt senior managers...
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The cryptocurrency industry is developing regardless of the market’s downtrend. Today, over 20 000 different digital assets are presented in all crypto rankings and over 500 services and applications...
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Recent news indicates that managers now outnumber manual workers across French industry. Over 21 per cent of the working population are classified as managers, as opposed to 19 per cent who are manual...
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Twitter is nearly breaking even financially with satisfactory growth. … Twitter is down to 1,500 employees (from over 7,500) Wasn’t it losing money with 7,500?
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BBC asks all senior TV and radio presenters to consider redundancy – report If they’re contractors – through the personal services companies – what redundancy?
View ArticleJohn Naughton really, really, doesn’t understand things, does he?
Which means that, no matter how depraved Twitter becomes under its reigning proprietor, you have to be there, even if he despises you. Right. Last October, the richest manchild in human history fell...
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The company is used by thousands of organisations to recruit and vet staff, manage IT systems Err: The attack by Russian cybercriminals on one of the UK’s biggest outsourcing companies, Capita, appears...
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So Prometheus Biosciences. Takeover by Merck at $200 a share. Announced Sunday, Friday’s close was $114. In my current little experiment I – while tooling around over a beer on Sunday night – said that...
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Unlike most other businesses on Earth that live and die by their customers’ demands, social media services are caught trying to satisfy both their users and the people actually paying for it all:...
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Just Eat unveils €150m share buyback a month after cutting 1,700 staff So, that worked then. Fire a few people and increase returns to shareholders. What a company’s for after all – as Musk is showing...
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That sentiment, though, comes with a time limit. XR has told the government that if, by 5pm tomorrow, it does not meet two key demands — ending all funding for fossil fuel and creating a new “emergency...
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So, it’s the starting day of the writers strike. The writers claiming that the studios aren’t offering the writers enough of the revenue stream from streaming. At which point Paramount announces...
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If there’s one thing Hollywood screenwriters know how to deliver, it’s a snappy one-liner. “Pay your writers, or we’ll spoil Succession,” read one of the placards paraded outside movie studios in Los...
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So, when did cars get markedly more reliable? It wasn’t 40 years ago because Brit cars from that time were famously terrible. So, 30 years ago? 20? The cars on Britain’s roads are getting older and...
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Much of the blame for that tumble has been placed on the overwhelming dominance of the giant tech firms: Google and Meta have vacuumed up the web advertising that was the bedrock of BuzzFeed’s economic...
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I seek a creative copy writer to develop short tiktok video scripts for stock market companies. Here is an example of the script style we are looking for....
View ArticleA vast success in the food market
Its origins lie in a simple question posed seven years ago when there was a surge in the number of farmers killing themselves because of falling prices and rising costs: would consumers be prepared to...
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To create an AI-powered Google competitor, Perplexity didn’t have to hire an army of AI researchers. It only had to write a prompt, albeit a more complex one than most people type into ChatGPT. But the...
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I’m not greedy for wanting pay rise, insists IT worker off sick for 15 years Gravely ill IBM worker sues tech giant for not increasing his salary Yeah, right. He’s been on £50k for 15 years. The rest...
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