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  • Bezos bets on Cambridge as Cuspai’s AI materials hunt hits $2.6bn
  • Manchester crowned best city outside London for women founders as the entrepreneurial map shifts north
  • Britain risks losing £250bn unless it grips the highest energy bills in the G7
  • Mark Dixon hands the reins of his Regus empire to a new chief after nearly 40 years
  • Trump threatens 100% tariff on French wine as Macron digs in over digital tax
  • Cut off from the world’s most powerful AI, Britain leans on Trump for a way back in
  • One in four UK manufacturers shift production abroad as energy bills bite
  • Retailers warn De Minimis delay will turn Britain into a ‘dumping ground’ for unsafe goods
  • NTIA backs Burnham for No 10 as night-time economy pleads for a VAT lifeline
  • Founders and MPs warn Reeves that Britain’s tax system is telling entrepreneurs to leave
Interest rate cuts could spark renewed interest in green energy investment trusts

Green energy trust scraps dividend and heads for wind-down, leaving investors nursing heavy losses

Shares in SEIT slumped to a record low after the former market darling confirmed a liquidation plan that puts debt reduction ahead of dividends, as activist Saba Capital tightens its grip

Rachel Reeves is facing fresh criticism from senior business leaders after John Roberts, chief executive of online electricals retailer AO World, described her Budget as “tone deaf” and “a bit pathetic”, accusing the Chancellor of lacking any real understanding of business or entrepreneurship.

AO World chief blames Labour as record profits mask shift of 200 jobs to South Africa

AO World founder John Roberts blames Labour’s national insurance and minimum wage rises for offshoring 200 jobs to South Africa, even as the retailer posts record profits.

Ministers are weighing up whether parts of a clampdown on the low-value imports that power Shein and Temu could arrive sooner than planned, after sustained lobbying from British retailers who say the current timetable leaves the high street exposed.

Tax crackdown on Shein and Temu could be fast-tracked as retailers turn up the heat

Ministers are weighing whether parts of the crackdown on the £135 de minimis import relief used by Shein and Temu can land before 2029, as UK retailers demand faster action.

There are few sharper symbols of how brutally the British grocery market has reshaped itself over the past decade than this: Morrisons, once one of the proud "big four", has been overtaken by Lidl in the league table of the nation's largest supermarkets.

Morrisons feels the squeeze as Lidl edges ahead in the supermarket pecking order

Morrisons like-for-like sales rose 2.2% in Q2 as Lidl leapfrogged it to become Britain’s fifth-largest grocer. Inside the numbers, the debt pile and Rami Baitiéh’s turnaround.

Jeff Bezos has thrown his weight behind one of Cambridge's most closely watched artificial intelligence ventures, joining a $400 million fundraising that values materials-discovery specialist CuspAI at $2.6 billion.

Bezos bets on Cambridge as Cuspai’s AI materials hunt hits $2.6bn

Jeff Bezos has backed Cambridge materials-discovery start-up CuspAI through Bezos Expeditions, in a $400m round that lifts its valuation to $2.6bn.

Manchester has been named the leading UK city outside London to start a business, according to new research from National Women's Enterprise Week, in findings that point to the growing pull of regional "hidden hubs" for women building companies away from the capital.

Manchester crowned best city outside London for women founders as the entrepreneurial map shifts north

Manchester is the UK’s leading city outside London to start a business, new research finds, as women founders back regional hubs over the capital.

Britain's small and medium-sized businesses are quietly rewiring the way they operate, and the trigger is no longer the calendar quarter but the fixture list. From tennis fortnights to stadium residencies and a summer of football, a growing "event economy" is reshaping local trading conditions for thousands of firms, and the smartest operators are planning for it months in advance.

SMEs told to think ‘MATCH’ as a summer of football fuels Britain’s booming event economy

A summer of football and a packed events calendar are reshaping UK trade. Here is how SMEs can use the ‘MATCH’ framework to turn surging demand into profit.

The UK's 100 largest businesses are made up of more than 37,000 individual entities registered with Companies House, new analysis has found, laying bare just how hard it has become to see the full shape of Britain's biggest firms through the corporate registry alone.

The UK’s 100 biggest businesses hide behind 37,000 company registrations

Beauhurst analysis reveals the UK’s 100 largest businesses are built from more than 37,000 Companies House entities, with one registered over 3,800 times, obscuring the true picture.

Britain stands to forfeit £250 billion in economic value over the next decade, a sum equivalent to 8 per cent of current GDP, unless ministers act decisively to bring down the country's stubbornly high energy costs.

Britain risks losing £250bn unless it grips the highest energy bills in the G7

Britain risks forfeiting £250bn over the next decade, 8% of GDP, unless it tackles the G7’s highest electricity costs, PwC warns, urging a government-led national energy plan.

  1. Green energy trust scraps dividend and heads for wind-down, leaving investors nursing heavy losses
  2. AO World chief blames Labour as record profits mask shift of 200 jobs to South Africa
  3. Tax crackdown on Shein and Temu could be fast-tracked as retailers turn up the heat
  4. Morrisons feels the squeeze as Lidl edges ahead in the supermarket pecking order
  5. Bezos bets on Cambridge as Cuspai’s AI materials hunt hits $2.6bn
  6. Manchester crowned best city outside London for women founders as the entrepreneurial map shifts north
  7. SMEs told to think ‘MATCH’ as a summer of football fuels Britain’s booming event economy
  8. The UK’s 100 biggest businesses hide behind 37,000 company registrations
  9. Britain risks losing £250bn unless it grips the highest energy bills in the G7

Latest News…

Jeff Bezos has thrown his weight behind one of Cambridge's most closely watched artificial intelligence ventures, joining a $400 million fundraising that values materials-discovery specialist CuspAI at $2.6 billion.

Bezos bets on Cambridge as Cuspai’s AI materials hunt hits $2.6bn

Jeff Bezos has backed Cambridge materials-discovery start-up CuspAI through Bezos Expeditions, in a $400m round that lifts its valuation to $2.6bn.

Manchester has been named the leading UK city outside London to start a business, according to new research from National Women's Enterprise Week, in findings that point to the growing pull of regional "hidden hubs" for women building companies away from the capital.

Manchester crowned best city outside London for women founders as the entrepreneurial map shifts north

Manchester is the UK’s leading city outside London to start a business, new research finds, as women founders back regional hubs over the capital.

Britain stands to forfeit £250 billion in economic value over the next decade, a sum equivalent to 8 per cent of current GDP, unless ministers act decisively to bring down the country's stubbornly high energy costs.

Britain risks losing £250bn unless it grips the highest energy bills in the G7

Britain risks forfeiting £250bn over the next decade, 8% of GDP, unless it tackles the G7’s highest electricity costs, PwC warns, urging a government-led national energy plan.

Mark Dixon, the billionaire founder of IWG and architect of the Regus empire, has dismissed calls to ban working from home as “idiotic”, arguing that the future of productivity lies in better management, not compulsory office attendance.

Mark Dixon hands the reins of his Regus empire to a new chief after nearly 40 years

The founder of the world’s largest serviced office provider is stepping back from the day-to-day running of the business he built from a single idea in a Brussels coffee shop.

President Trump has reopened his long-running feud with Paris, warning that he will slap a 100 per cent tariff on French wine and champagne unless President Macron abandons France's digital services tax, the 3 per cent levy that falls most heavily on America's biggest technology firms.

Trump threatens 100% tariff on French wine as Macron digs in over digital tax

President Trump has reopened his long-running feud with Paris, warning that he will slap a 100 per cent tariff on French wine and champagne unless President Macron abandons France’s digital services tax, the 3 per cent levy that falls most heavily on America’s biggest technology firms.

Sir Keir Starmer has condemned Donald Trump’s threat to impose sweeping tariffs on the UK and other European allies over Greenland, calling the move “completely wrong” and warning it undermines Nato unity.

Cut off from the world’s most powerful AI, Britain leans on Trump for a way back in

Downing Street is lobbying the White House for a UK carve-out after Donald Trump banned foreign access to Anthropic’s most advanced Claude models, citing security risks.

A quarter of British manufacturers have moved some operations overseas or are weighing it up, blaming energy costs that Make UK says have left the sector "uncompetitive" against foreign rivals.

One in four UK manufacturers shift production abroad as energy bills bite

A quarter of UK manufacturers have moved production overseas or are considering it, as Make UK warns that the highest energy costs in the world are driving deindustrialisation.

Britain risks losing yet more high street shops, and becoming a dumping ground for unsafe imports, unless ministers move faster to close a tax loophole being exploited by overseas sellers, retailers have warned.

Retailers warn De Minimis delay will turn Britain into a ‘dumping ground’ for unsafe goods

Retailers warn that delaying abolition of the £135 de minimis customs threshold until 2029 will cost more high street shops and let unsafe imports flood Britain as the US and EU tighten the rules.

Britain's night-time economy has rarely been short of warnings about its own mortality. What is new is the willingness of its trade body to name a politician it believes can do something about it.

NTIA backs Burnham for No 10 as night-time economy pleads for a VAT lifeline

The NTIA has thrown its weight behind Andy Burnham’s call to cut VAT on hospitality and the night-time economy, warning the sector cannot survive three more years of rising costs.

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Business

Rachel Reeves is facing fresh criticism from senior business leaders after John Roberts, chief executive of online electricals retailer AO World, described her Budget as “tone deaf” and “a bit pathetic”, accusing the Chancellor of lacking any real understanding of business or entrepreneurship.

AO World chief blames Labour as record profits mask shift of 200 jobs to South Africa

AO World founder John Roberts blames Labour’s national insurance and minimum wage rises for offshoring 200 jobs to South Africa, even as the retailer posts record profits.

Ministers are weighing up whether parts of a clampdown on the low-value imports that power Shein and Temu could arrive sooner than planned, after sustained lobbying from British retailers who say the current timetable leaves the high street exposed.

Tax crackdown on Shein and Temu could be fast-tracked as retailers turn up the heat

Ministers are weighing whether parts of the crackdown on the £135 de minimis import relief used by Shein and Temu can land before 2029, as UK retailers demand faster action.

There are few sharper symbols of how brutally the British grocery market has reshaped itself over the past decade than this: Morrisons, once one of the proud "big four", has been overtaken by Lidl in the league table of the nation's largest supermarkets.

Morrisons feels the squeeze as Lidl edges ahead in the supermarket pecking order

Morrisons like-for-like sales rose 2.2% in Q2 as Lidl leapfrogged it to become Britain’s fifth-largest grocer. Inside the numbers, the debt pile and Rami Baitiéh’s turnaround.

Britain's small and medium-sized businesses are quietly rewiring the way they operate, and the trigger is no longer the calendar quarter but the fixture list. From tennis fortnights to stadium residencies and a summer of football, a growing "event economy" is reshaping local trading conditions for thousands of firms, and the smartest operators are planning for it months in advance.

SMEs told to think ‘MATCH’ as a summer of football fuels Britain’s booming event economy

A summer of football and a packed events calendar are reshaping UK trade. Here is how SMEs can use the ‘MATCH’ framework to turn surging demand into profit.

The UK's 100 largest businesses are made up of more than 37,000 individual entities registered with Companies House, new analysis has found, laying bare just how hard it has become to see the full shape of Britain's biggest firms through the corporate registry alone.

The UK’s 100 biggest businesses hide behind 37,000 company registrations

Beauhurst analysis reveals the UK’s 100 largest businesses are built from more than 37,000 Companies House entities, with one registered over 3,800 times, obscuring the true picture.

Ministers have set the UK on course to bar under-16s from mainstream social media, but the business and technology figures who will have to live with the policy are far from convinced it will work.

Under-16s social media ban branded ‘impractical, illiberal and undesirable’ as industry rounds on government

Experts warn the UK’s under-16s social media ban is ‘impractical’ and no silver bullet. Business Matters rounds up the industry reaction and what platforms must do next.

There is no escaping the noise around artificial intelligence. Yet behind the breathless launches and boardroom enthusiasm sits a far more sober question, and it is one MPs are now determined to answer: are British businesses, and the workers inside them, actually getting anything out of it?

Beyond the hype: what do British businesses really make of AI?

As MPs launch an inquiry into AI and the future of work, Business Matters asks what British firms really gain from artificial intelligence, and what is holding smaller businesses back.

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Mark Dixon, the billionaire founder of IWG and architect of the Regus empire, has dismissed calls to ban working from home as “idiotic”, arguing that the future of productivity lies in better management, not compulsory office attendance.

Mark Dixon hands the reins of his Regus empire to a new chief after nearly 40 years

The founder of the world’s largest serviced office provider is stepping back from the day-to-day running of the business he built from a single idea in a Brussels coffee shop.

Kanya King CBE, the entrepreneur who remortgaged her home to launch the MOBO Awards and went on to reshape the British music industry, has died aged 57.

Kanya King, the single mother who remortgaged her home to build the MOBO Awards, dies aged 57

Kanya King CBE, the entrepreneur who remortgaged her home to launch the MOBO Awards and went on to reshape the British music industry, has died aged 57.

Marketing & Social Media

The owner of Facebook and Instagram will cut another 10,000 jobs, months after laying off 11,000 staff, as the technology group prepares for years of economic disruption.

Meta launches high court challenge against Ofcom over online safety act fines

Mark Zuckerberg

Meta to axe 8,000 jobs in May as Zuckerberg bets the house on AI

Nigel Farage has invested £215,000 in a cryptocurrency business chaired by former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, underscoring the growing overlap between politics and the digital asset sector.

Reform UK becomes first British political party to launch its own podcast

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Interest rate cuts could spark renewed interest in green energy investment trusts

Green energy trust scraps dividend and heads for wind-down, leaving investors nursing heavy losses

Shares in SEIT slumped to a record low after the former market darling confirmed a liquidation plan that puts debt reduction ahead of dividends, as activist Saba Capital tightens its grip

Jeff Bezos has thrown his weight behind one of Cambridge's most closely watched artificial intelligence ventures, joining a $400 million fundraising that values materials-discovery specialist CuspAI at $2.6 billion.

Bezos bets on Cambridge as Cuspai’s AI materials hunt hits $2.6bn

Jeff Bezos has backed Cambridge materials-discovery start-up CuspAI through Bezos Expeditions, in a $400m round that lifts its valuation to $2.6bn.

American Express has agreed to buy TheFork, the restaurant booking app owned by Tripadvisor, for $700 million, in a move that hands the card giant one of Europe's largest dining platforms and a firmer foothold in its fastest-growing market.

American Express buys TheFork from Tripadvisor in $700m bet on European dining

American Express has agreed to buy restaurant booking app TheFork from Tripadvisor for $700m, expanding its European dining network to 75,000 venues.

Canada's Cohere is tripling its physical footprint in the UK, signing a lease on a new London office as it races to position itself as the credible alternative to American rivals OpenAI and Anthropic for governments and regulated businesses nervous about handing their data to Silicon Valley.

Cohere triples its London base to cash in on Britain’s sovereign AI bet

Canadian AI firm Cohere is tripling its London office at 100 New Oxford Street, betting on surging UK government and enterprise demand for sovereign AI.

Fox Corporation is buying Roku in a cash-and-share deal worth roughly $22bn (about £16.3bn), a bet that bolting its sports and news output onto America's best-known streaming platform will shore up its position as audiences drift away from traditional television.

Fox bets $22bn on Roku as Lachlan Murdoch chases the streaming living room

Fox Corporation is buying Roku in a $22bn cash-and-share deal, handing Lachlan Murdoch access to 100m+ households as the media group pivots from cable to streaming.

Barclays is buying children's money app GoHenry in a deal worth an estimated £180m, the latest acquisition in CS Venkatakrishnan's UK expansion drive.

Barclays snaps up children’s money app GoHenry in £180m bet on customers for life

Barclays is buying children’s money app GoHenry in a deal worth an estimated £180m, the latest acquisition in CS Venkatakrishnan’s UK expansion drive.

SpaceX shares surged on their stock market debut on Friday, racing past the $135 listing price to touch $150 as investors scrambled for a stake in Elon Musk's vision of space, satellite and AI dominance.

SpaceX shares rocket past listing price in historic stock market debut

SpaceX shares surged past their $135 IPO price to hit $150 on debut, as investors piled into Elon Musk’s $1.75tn space and satellite empire. But can the gains last?

Irish payments firm Trustap has raised $10 million to position itself as the trusted transaction layer for the fast-emerging world of agentic commerce, where AI assistants shop, haggle and pay on behalf of their human owners.

Trustap raises $10m to become the payment layer AI shopping agents can trust

Irish fintech Trustap has raised $10m led by Aperture Capital to launch Trustap Index, making marketplace listings discoverable and transactable by AI shopping agents.

West Yorkshire's ambition to rival the capital as a technology powerhouse has taken a significant step forward with the launch of Tech West Yorkshire, a new umbrella organisation backed by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and championed by Mayor Tracy Brabin.

Brabin backs Tech West Yorkshire as region bids to become UK’s leading tech hub outside London

Mayor Tracy Brabin backs Tech West Yorkshire, a new body uniting 9,700 digital firms across Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Calderdale and Kirklees to build a leading UK tech hub.

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Legal

The UK's 100 largest businesses are made up of more than 37,000 individual entities registered with Companies House, new analysis has found, laying bare just how hard it has become to see the full shape of Britain's biggest firms through the corporate registry alone.

The UK’s 100 biggest businesses hide behind 37,000 company registrations

Beauhurst analysis reveals the UK’s 100 largest businesses are built from more than 37,000 Companies House entities, with one registered over 3,800 times, obscuring the true picture.

New research from Allentra USA and Mathys & Squire reveals a consistent pattern of intellectual property exposure among growth-stage UK businesses planning, or already trading in, the United States.

Three in four UK firms heading for America have no US trademark protection, research finds

New research reveals 76% of UK companies expanding into the US have no USPTO trademark protection, leaving brands and patents dangerously exposed.

HM Revenue & Customs has fired a fresh warning shot at Britain’s flexible workforce, urging an estimated 700,000 umbrella workers, and the agencies and end-clients that engage them, to steer well clear of a rapidly growing scheme that claims, falsely, that personal IOUs can be used to settle a tax bill.

HMRC warns 700,000 umbrella workers over ‘bills of exchange’ tax avoidance scam

Promoters in the recruitment and temporary labour sector are pushing a bogus payment ‘trick’ that HMRC says has no legal foundation — and SMEs further down the supply chain risk being dragged in.

The chief executive of US fintech Bolt has mounted a robust defence of his decision to sack the company's entire human resources department, telling a Fortune audience that the team "created problems that didn't exist" and that those issues "disappeared" the moment he showed them the door.

Bolt boss defends sacking entire HR team, claiming staff ‘invented problems that didn’t exist’

Bolt chief executive Ryan Breslow has defended axing the fintech’s entire HR department, claiming the team “created problems that didn’t exist” as the firm slashes headcount and pivots to an AI-first model.

Britain's small and medium-sized businesses have been put on notice. From 19 June 2026, exactly one month from today, every organisation that handles personal data will, by law, be required to operate a formal complaints process. Those that fail to prepare risk regulatory action, reputational damage and the slow drip of customer trust eroding away.

ICO Warns SMEs: one month to comply with new Data Complaints Law

UK businesses have just four weeks to put a statutory data protection complaints process in place before the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 takes effect on 19 June 2026. Here’s what SMEs must do.

An Isle of Man trading-education platform has won a two-year trade mark battle against TikTok’s UK arm, in a ruling small business advisers say sets a powerful precedent for founders facing legal pressure from global tech giants.

How a 50-person start-up beat TikTok at the IPO – with Lord Sugar in its corner

An Isle of Man fintech start-up has beaten TikTok at the UK Intellectual Property Office, winning a two-year trade mark fight backed by Lord Sugar’s Trade Mark Wizards, and TikTok has been ordered to pay costs

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms has suffered a significant legal setback in Europe after the bloc's highest court ruled that national regulators have the power to enforce compensation arrangements between online platforms and news publishers for the use of their journalism.

Meta dealt blow by EU court in landmark ruling on publisher payments

Meta has lost a pivotal EU court case after challenging Italy’s right to set compensation for press content. The ruling strengthens publishers’ hand in negotiations with Big Tech platforms over snippets and AI training data.

Tesco has suffered a significant setback in the long-running equal pay battle being waged by tens of thousands of its shop floor staff, after the Court of Appeal threw out the supermarket’s challenge to the way an Employment Tribunal had been assessing the value of jobs carried out by its customer assistants.

Tesco loses court of appeal fight over equal pay job assessment in landmark ruling for SME and retail employers

Tesco has lost its Court of Appeal challenge to the way tribunals assess job value in the £multi-million equal pay claim brought by 16,000 shop workers — with significant implications for UK employers.

Mike Ashley's retail empire has scored a notable courtroom victory after the Court of Appeal threw out a substantial damages award handed down in a protracted trademark infringement dispute, sparing the FTSE-listed group what could have proved a punishing financial blow.

Ashley’s Frasers group dodges hefty damages bill in trademark appeal victory

Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group has overturned damages in a long-running trademark battle with Beverly Hills Polo Club owner Lifestyle Equities, after the Court of Appeal ruled licensee claims were filed too late.

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Made in Britain

An Argyll-based manufacturing firm is targeting 20 per cent year-on-year growth in the global awards sector after investing nearly half a million pounds in new production technology.

Custom acrylic manufacturer Midton targets 20% annual growth after £429,000 tech investment at Argyll foundry

Argyll-based Midton is expanding its acrylic awards manufacturing capacity following a £429,000 investment in new biomass-powered technology.

The Made in Britain organisation has raised concerns over Reform UK’s alleged use of a logo resembling its own, stressing political neutrality and lack of authorisation.

‘Made in Britain’ body challenges Reform UK over alleged unauthorised logo use

The Made in Britain organisation has raised concerns over Reform UK’s alleged use of a logo resembling its own, stressing political neutrality and lack of authorisation.

As the Labour Party Conference kicks off this weekend, Made in Britain, a trade association that unites domestic manufacturers through the official Made in Britain Trademark, has issued a cross-party call for MPs to actively support local manufacturers.

Made in Britain applications surge following Trump tariffs as businesses embrace UK-made goods

The UK’s leading manufacturing trade organisation, Made in Britain, has reported a 20% surge in membership applications in the wake of President Trump’s sweeping new tariffs on imported goods, as interest in “buying British” grows among businesses and consumers alike.

Made in Britain, the not-for-profit organisation behind the official trademark for UK manufacturing, has forged a new partnership with Lincoln-based digital marketing agency Carrington.

Made in Britain teams up with Carrington to drive UK manufacturing growth

Made in Britain, the official trademark for UK manufacturers, has appointed digital marketing agency Carrington to boost visibility for 2,100+ members, championing British-made products and sustainable growth.

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Newswire

Bitcoin has endured its worst week since the implosion of the FTX exchange in 2022, with the world's most heavily traded cryptocurrency rattled by a leading bitcoin treasury company's decision to trim its holdings.

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Opinion

Ministers have set the UK on course to bar under-16s from mainstream social media, but the business and technology figures who will have to live with the policy are far from convinced it will work.

Under-16s social media ban branded ‘impractical, illiberal and undesirable’ as industry rounds on government

Scott Pelley fired from 60 Minutes: the next domino in the fall of American journalism

Rural Britain isn’t a backdrop. It’s a £315 billion economy, and it deserves a national stage

Technology

Jeff Bezos has thrown his weight behind one of Cambridge's most closely watched artificial intelligence ventures, joining a $400 million fundraising that values materials-discovery specialist CuspAI at $2.6 billion.

Bezos bets on Cambridge as Cuspai’s AI materials hunt hits $2.6bn

Canada's Cohere is tripling its physical footprint in the UK, signing a lease on a new London office as it races to position itself as the credible alternative to American rivals OpenAI and Anthropic for governments and regulated businesses nervous about handing their data to Silicon Valley.

Cohere triples its London base to cash in on Britain’s sovereign AI bet

Sir Keir Starmer has condemned Donald Trump’s threat to impose sweeping tariffs on the UK and other European allies over Greenland, calling the move “completely wrong” and warning it undermines Nato unity.

Cut off from the world’s most powerful AI, Britain leans on Trump for a way back in

Business

American Express has agreed to buy TheFork, the restaurant booking app owned by Tripadvisor, for $700 million, in a move that hands the card giant one of Europe's largest dining platforms and a firmer foothold in its fastest-growing market.

American Express buys TheFork from Tripadvisor in $700m bet on European dining

American Express has agreed to buy restaurant booking app TheFork from Tripadvisor for $700m, expanding its European dining network to 75,000 venues.

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