BT has been announced as a Gold Partner for Wales Tech Week 2025, the international summit celebrating digital innovation and entrepreneurship, which takes place from 24–26 November at the ICC Wales. As one of the UK’s leading providers of telecommunications and digital infrastructure, BT connects more than a million businesses each day. Its involvement is being seen as a strong ...
Business tycoon Elon Musk agreed with Vice President JD Vance’s assertion that the bulk of violent crime is perpetrated by a small pool of people who should be locked up. ‘The big lie the Democrats told about violent crime is that it’s ‘systemic’ and therefore no one’s really responsible. If the ‘system’ is to blame then you fund a bunch ...
The UK must do more to attract Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) if it is to support business growth and maintain global competitiveness, according to leading audit and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg. Partner Winnie Cao pointed to fresh data from China’s Ministry of Commerce showing that, by the end of 2024, Britain accounted for just 9 per cent of China’s ...
Parents and grandparents are shouldering an unprecedented £2.8 billion a year to support students through university, as the soaring cost of higher education leaves families footing the bill. New research shows that 71 per cent of parents are either contributing, or planning to contribute, financially towards their children’s time at university. The average outlay per family now stands at £8,723 ...
AI adoption among large enterprises has dipped slightly, even as overall use of the technology continues to rise across the corporate landscape. New figures from the US Census Bureau show that uptake among companies with more than 250 employees fell from a peak of around 14 per cent to 12 per cent in recent summer surveys. The decline, though modest, ...
The separate tax controversies involving Premier League footballers and former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner should serve as a “wake-up call” about the importance of taking sound, professional advice, a senior tax expert has warned. Steven Martin, senior tax manager at Hampshire-based accountancy and business advisory firm HWB, said the two cases – though very different in scope – highlight ...
Five years after Britain’s departure from the European Union, the UK’s automotive sector continues to prove its global weight, generating £115 billion in imports and exports last year, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The industry is on track to deliver more than £110 billion in trade for the third year running, despite grappling with new ...
Dragons’ Den investor Touker Suleyman has emerged as one of the leading contenders to acquire the UK arm of Claire’s out of administration, with a proposal understood to preserve the Birmingham head office and a significant proportion of the store estate. The bid is being weighed against rival interest from Modella Capital and Doug Putman, the Sunrise Records owner who ...
It really shouldn’t be that big a deal. Donald Trump was one of many friends solicited to send messages to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday. There’s a far more cautious one from Bill Clinton, too. If the president had merely said ‘yeah, I sent it, we were joking back and forth, nothing to see here’ – this was in ...
Cefinn, the womenswear brand founded by Samantha Cameron, is to be wound down after years of losses, bringing an end to a label once worn by the Princess of Wales and Queen Camilla. Launched in 2017 as “an urban uniform for busy women”, Cefinn never turned a profit and has struggled in recent years with wholesale upheaval, fragile consumer confidence ...