<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??> eBay UK is launching a climate training programme for the 200,000+ small businesses that sell goods on its platform. Called the ‘carbon academy’, the programme is open to all eBay UK sellers and is being hosted as part of a partnership between eBay and

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>Three universities have been awarded a share of funding to drive digital innovation across UK SMEs, as part of the HNCDI programme The Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation (HNCDI) programme seeks to improve digital adoption across businesses, targeting funding and support toward UK

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>Disney has announced plans to combine content from its Disney+ and Hulu streaming services in the US. The move comes after Disney+ lost four million subscribers in the first three months of the year, and the firm is under pressure to make its streaming

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>The new head of the crisis-hit CBI, Rain Newton Smith, has said she does not take the future of the group “for granted” and warned the task of winning back trust from businesses is “as big as it is urgent”. Newton Smith, who was

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>Ministers will have to “grasp the nettle” on bringing forward the rise in the state pension age to 68 in the first couple of years of the next parliament, Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, has suggested. After delaying the decision because of

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>Twitter’s CEO, Elon Musk, said on Thursday that he has found a new chief executive for the social media platform and that she will be starting in about six weeks. “My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software &

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>The UK economy eked out growth in the first quarter of the year, accelerating at a modest pace to ensure that the economy is not at immediate risk of recession. Quarterly growth between January and March rose by 0.1 per cent compared with the

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>SMEs in the UK are leading Europe when it comes to accepting contactless payments, with almost all now accepting near-field communications (NFC)-based card payments. According to a survey by SME-focused fintech SumUp, 90% of UK SMEs now accept payment by contactless cards.In Switzerland, 85%