• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Bluesky, British Steel, FRC

  Tuesday 12 Nov 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Social media platform Bluesky has picked up more than 700,000 new users in the week since the US election, as users seek to escape misinformation and offensive posts on X. The influx, largely from North America and the UK, has helped Bluesky reach 14.5 million users worldwide, up from 9 million in September, the company said. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Hospitality, wind generation, Vertical Aerospace

  Monday 11 Nov 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Great Britain "lags behind" Europe on measures to restrict betting adverts, according to a report released days after official data showed a sharp increase in the number of children with a gambling problem. Restrictions on ads by bookmakers and casinos are increasingly becoming "the norm" across Europe in response to public health concerns, according to a report commissioned by GambleAware, the UK's leading gambling charity. - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: AI, Bentley, News Corp

  Friday 08 Nov 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Dozens of health and children's groups have urged ministers to tackle obesity by imposing taxes on foods containing too much salt or sugar. New levies based on the sugar tax on soft drinks would make it easier for consumers to eat more healthily by forcing food manufacturers to reformulate their products, they claim. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Scams, second-hand car sales, AstraZeneca

  Thursday 07 Nov 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Companies could face fines of up to $50m for failing to prevent scams and may be forced to compensate victims under new laws the Albanese government says would give Australians the strongest anti-scammer protection in the world. The government will introduce legislation to federal parliament on Thursday to establish its long-awaited "scams prevention framework". - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Eurostar, Asda, jobless rate

  Wednesday 06 Nov 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Cross-channel train operator Eurostar has been criticised by the advertising watchdog for exaggerating the number of £39 seats on sale. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that Eurostar ads across Instagram and Facebook for £39 tickets from London to Amsterdam and Brussels were misleading, the second time it has censured its ads this year. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Oasis fans, house prices, Future

  Tuesday 05 Nov 2024

  (Sharecast News) - The $1m-a-day voter sweepstakes that Elon Musk's political action committee is hosting in swing states can continue through Tuesday's presidential election, a Pennsylvania judge ruled on Monday. The common pleas court judge Angelo Foglietta - ruling after Musk's lawyers said the winners are not chosen by chance - did not immediately give a reason for the ruling. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Four-day week, UK energy, Apple

  Monday 04 Nov 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Fraudsters may have stolen £500,000 from a taxpayer-funded scheme aimed at accelerating the removal of dangerous cladding from buildings, the public spending watchdog has revealed. The National Audit Office said the government decision to prioritise speed in handing out money to building owners had increased its risk of losses from fraud. The warning came in an NAO report into the government's progress in remediating dangerous cladding from blocks after the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: Boeing, Amazon, Harland & Wolff

  Friday 01 Nov 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Striking Boeing workers will vote on an improved contract offer on Monday, which includes a 38% pay rise over four years and a bigger signing bonus, their union said on Thursday. More than 30,000 factory workers who produce Boeing's strongest-selling 737 Max commercial jet and other planes have been on strike since 13 September and have rejected two earlier offers from Boeing. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Lloyds Banking Group, Microsoft, car finance crisis

  Thursday 31 Oct 2024

  (Sharecast News) - The former cryptocurrency executive Nishad Singh, who once shared a $35m Bahamas penthouse with the FTX founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, was spared prison time by a judge on Wednesday for his role in the theft by his imprisoned former boss of about $8bn in customer funds from the now bankrupt exchange. The United States district judge Lewis Kaplan imposed the sentence during a hearing in Manhattan federal court. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Starbucks, Santander, Alphabet

  Wednesday 30 Oct 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Starbucks office workers will risk losing their jobs if they fail to comply with the company's hybrid work requirement that employees are in the office three times a week. According to the Wall Street Journal an internal message sent to employees warns that an "accountability process" will start in January 2025. Consequences for non-compliance are "up to, and including, separation", according to the company message. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Brexit border checks, Evri, UK bond sales

  Tuesday 29 Oct 2024

  (Sharecast News) - A lack of social mobility is costing the UK £19bn a year, a report produced by the cross-party thinktank Demos and the Co-op has found. The Social Mobility Commission, which advises the government, defines social mobility as "the link between a person's occupation or income and the occupation or income of their parents". - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Sellafield, HBOS, retail investors

  Monday 28 Oct 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves has been urged not to carry out mooted funding cuts for nuclear sites including Sellafield amid safety concerns, as it emerged that the number of incidents where workers narrowly avoided harm had increased at the Cumbrian site. The GMB union has written to Reeves, the chancellor, before Wednesday's budget to raise safety concerns after rumours emerged that the budget for the taxpayer-owned Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) could be reduced, which could result in cuts at nuclear sites including Sellafield and Dounreay in Scotland. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Unsustainable, Inheritance Tax, Payslips

  Sunday 27 Oct 2024

  (Sharecast News) - The government's debt pile is set to soar to "unsustainable" levels, the Chancellor's new fiscal rules not withstanding, official data reveal. During the previous week, Rachel Reeves binned the old methodology used to measure public debt, which will allow her to foist enormous additional liabilities on future generations of Britons. The new rules will let her borrow £50bn yet claim that she can balance the books. - The Financial Mail on Sunday

• Friday newspaper round-up: Tax rises, WiseTech Global, heat network zones

  Friday 25 Oct 2024

  (Sharecast News) - City firms are only rarely docking pay and bonuses in cases of bad behaviour including sexual harassment, bullying and drug use, according to the industry's watchdog, which recorded a 40% rise in complaints about non-financial misconduct last year. The findings are the result of the City regulator's first survey looking at the issue, which was launched in the wake of high-profile allegations of sexual harassment, including those against individuals at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) lobby group. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Boeing, property landlords, HSBC

  Thursday 24 Oct 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Boeing workers have rejected the latest offer to end the more than a month-long strike that has crippled the already struggling manufacturing giant. In a blow to Boeing and the Biden administration, which has fought for a resolution to the dispute, 64% of the 33,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union voted to reject the contract, the union said late on Wednesday. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Water companies, Sellafield, EY

  Wednesday 23 Oct 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Hundreds of millions of pounds of local transport funding in England could be cut in next week's spending review despite having been agreed with regional mayors, putting bus, tube and tram improvements at risk. The mayors, most of whom are Labour, are engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to stop the Treasury raiding their transport budgets as Rachel Reeves looks for immediate savings. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Influencers, Microsoft, Canal+

  Tuesday 22 Oct 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Britain's financial watchdog has interviewed 20 social media influencers under caution, as it clamps down on "finfluencers" who may be touting financial services products illegally. The 20 were interviewed voluntarily using the Financial Conduct Authority's criminal powers. Potential penalties include fines and imprisonment of up to two years. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Water companies, Sky, Microsoft

  Monday 21 Oct 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Almost half of the UK workforce lack access to workplace health support including winter flu vaccinations and checks for cardiovascular diseases, a report has found. The analysis, by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), looked at data from the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (DBEIS) and found that more than 10 million UK workers lack access to services including basic health checks, vaccinations, and smoking or weight loss support, provided by their employer. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Bond investors, Reckitt Benckiser, Tate&Lyle

  Sunday 20 Oct 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Government bond investors are signalling to the Chancellor that her plans for an additional £80bn of debt will not trigger and Liz-Truss style panic. But that will only hold true if she first establishes clear annual expenditure plans and lays out the economic case for the projects that she wants to fund. The new borrowing would be on top of spending cuts and tax hikes needed to fill a £22bn hole in the country's finances. Chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, has promised that "independent checks and balances" will be instituted to ensure value for money. - The Sunday Times

• Friday newspaper round-up: Post Office, bankers' bonuses, new job ads

  Friday 18 Oct 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is taking action to ensure her budget plan for a multibillion-pound increase in government borrowing to fund infrastructure projects avoids a Liz Truss-style meltdown in financial markets. Ahead of her tax and spending event on 30 October, the chancellor is convening on Friday the first meeting of a taskforce of leading City figures to advise on infrastructure projects. The government will also launch a watchdog to oversee public works and ensure value for money for the taxpayer. - Guardian

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