TikTok is once again available for download in the US, after former president Donald Trump granted a 75-day extension on enforcing a law that would ban the app unless its Chinese owner, ByteDance, sells its US operations. The popular video-sharing platform, which has more than 170 million American users, briefly disappeared from Apple and Google’s US app stores last month ...
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Saudi Arabia has emerged as a central player in the pursuit of a U.S.-brokered peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, in large part due to the political capital it wields with its massive oil reserves. President Donald Trump suggested Riyadh as a meeting place to kick off face-to-face talks between himself and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin agreed the location ...
Scottish salmon exports soared to a record-breaking £844 million in 2024, cementing its status as the UK’s top food export, driven by booming sales in France and the United States. HMRC trade data revealed a 45 per cent year-on-year increase, comfortably surpassing the previous high of £618 million in 2019. Export volumes also surged, rising 59 per cent to 101,466 ...
JP Morgan has ordered its 14,000 London-based employees back to the office full-time—only to find that it does not have enough desks to accommodate them. The US investment bank, which operates from Canary Wharf and the City, is now scrambling to increase its desk space after scrapping its hybrid working policy, which previously allowed staff to work from home three ...
Small businesses across the UK are urging the government to prioritise easier access to funding, subsidised AI training, and a more SME-friendly tax system as part of its economic growth strategy, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs. The report, which draws on input from hundreds of businesses that participated in the investment bank’s 10,000 Small Businesses management training ...
The government has issued new guidance instructing public sector buyers to make it easier for small businesses to win a larger share of the £400 billion spent annually on goods and services. The national procurement policy, which comes into effect on 24 February, encourages 20,000 public agencies to simplify tendering processes for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as ...
A mammoth bill advancing a broad range of President Donald Trump’s policy goals survived a key hurdle on Thursday, putting Republicans closer to their goal of passing a bill by sometime in May. The legislation passed the House Budget Committee on a party-line 21 to 16 vote and is expected to be taken up by the entire chamber for a ...
Retailers in London’s West End missed out on £640 million in sales last year due to the removal of tax-free shopping for international visitors, according to new research. Figures from the New West End Company, which represents businesses in the district, reveal that the revenue lost from tourist spending increased from £400 million in 2023, highlighting the ongoing impact of ...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is getting a tough job done. ‘Senate Republicans have been committed to getting President Trump’s nominees through,’ Thune, who’s been on the job steering the Senate for six weeks, told Fox News in an exclusive national digital interview. Thune was interviewed ahead of Brooke Rollins’s confirmation as secretary of agriculture, which brought to 16 the ...