A tech startup founded by two British military veterans has raised $20 million to expand its secure coordination and payments platform for defence, humanitarian and disaster response teams. Labrys Technologies, co-founded by Royal Marines veteran August “Gus” Lersten and former army linguistics specialist Luke Wattam, developed its flagship platform Axiom to address growing concerns over “shadow IT” in high-risk environments ...
Millions of UK cryptocurrency holders will soon be required to disclose their personal details to digital asset platforms, as HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) rolls out a sweeping new crackdown on tax avoidance in the sector. From 1 January 2026, crypto exchanges and marketplaces will be obliged to collect and report information on users and transactions to HMRC as part ...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been warned by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that her wafer-thin fiscal buffers could prove inadequate if the UK economy is hit by a fresh downturn, following a downgrade to the country’s growth forecast. In its latest economic outlook, the Paris-based body revised its UK GDP growth projections downward for both this year ...
Rachel Reeves’s planned overhaul of inheritance tax reliefs for farmers and family businesses could end up costing the Treasury nearly £2 billion by 2030, rather than raising revenue as intended, a new analysis has warned. Reforms to Business Property Relief (BPR) and Agricultural Property Relief (APR), set to come into force in April, were projected to generate £1.8 billion by ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Nearly six months into his second term, President Donald Trump has a new portrait posted to the White House website. White House officials posted an eight-second video to social media on Monday, showing the new portrait being hung on the wall at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus. ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump turned to social media on Monday evening to sell Americans on his vision for the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ calling it an opportunity to turn the U.S. around after what he called ‘four disastrous years’ under former President Joe Biden. The House passed the spending bill in late May and ...
UK-based cybersecurity firm ThreatSpike has raised $14 million in Series A funding to expand its mission of simplifying enterprise security through a unified, end-to-end platform. The round was led by growth equity firm Expedition Growth Capital, with key additions to ThreatSpike’s board including Will Sheldon, Partner at Expedition, and Emily Orton, co-founder of Darktrace. Founded in 2011 by computer scientists ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A report from Axios has indicated that the United States plans to allow Iran to continue limited low-level uranium enrichment on its soil for an unspecified period of time. On Saturday, the Trump administration presented its first formal proposal to Tehran in an attempt to sign a nuclear deal with the country, ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Progressive Democrats spoke out against antisemitism following a terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, in which an Egyptian national set peaceful protesters on fire at a demonstration to bring Israeli hostages home. ‘I am horrified by last night’s horrific attack in Boulder,’ progressive Democrat and potential 2028 presidential candidate,Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is coordinating with his colleagues in the House to push back against Senate Republicans’ efforts to ram President Donald Trump’s wish list of policy desires through the Senate. In a letter to Senate Democrats on Sunday, Schumer, D-N.Y., laid out a multipronged strategy to inflict as much ...