<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?????????>Parents of nursery and primary school-age children are facing more than £600 of extra childcare costs a month, a study has found, as employers demand staff spend more days in the office.More than half of parents said they had come under increasing pressure to increase time spent at their desks, in response to a survey by the flexible ...
<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?????????>A government credit guarantee has allowed Teesside stainless steel alloy inventor and manufacturer Paralloy to secure up to £26 million of a Santander UK bank guarantee facility to support the continued growth of its export business.Announced on National Manufacturing Day, the guarantee from UK Export Finance (UKEF) – the government’s export credit agency – allows Santander UK to ...
<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?????????>Maison Sport, the leading connecting independent ski and snowboard instructors with snowsports enthusiasts, today announces it has successfully raised £2.5million in its latest investment round, with a further £500,000 due to close within weeks.The series A funding round was led by Alp Invest, a Swiss based family company, which sees them join the company as shareholders alongside other ...
TAIWAN’s President Tsai Ing-wen (lower right) attends the launching ceremony of Haikun, its first domestically built submarine, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan Sept. 28, 2023. — REUTERS KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan — Taiwan unveiled its first domestically developed submarine on Thursday, a major step in a project aimed at strengthening the ...
TOKYO — US National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Japanese police jointly warned multinational companies of China-linked hacker group BlackTech in a cybersecurity advisory late on Wednesday. The joint advisory, which also came from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its Japanese counterpart, urged firms to review the internet routers at their subsidiaries to minimize ...
MENLO PARK — Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday rolled out new artificial intelligence (AI) products for consumers, including bots that create photo-realistic images and smart glasses that answer questions, as well as an updated virtual-reality headset. Mr. Zuckerberg described the products as bringing together virtual and real worlds, and underscored that part of what Meta offered was ...
JCOMP-FREEPIKTHE SECOND-LARGEST lottery winner in US history has come forward to claim the $1.6 billion prize, but the person’s identity may remain a secret for another 90 days, the Florida Lottery said on Wednesday.The Mega Millions jackpot was claimed on Monday, seven weeks after the Aug. 8 ...
<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?????????>One-in-five SME owners plan to sell part or all their business within the next two years according to a new study.An additional one in ten respondents expect to downsize their businesses over the same period. Of these, a third blame rising costs, 18% cite performance-related issues and a further one in six need to release liquidity to deal ...
<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?????????>Laverock Therapeutics, established to commercialise the gene editing induced gene silencing platform for all human therapeutic applications has announced it has expanded its seed funding round to £13.5M.This investment was led by Calculus Capital with additional participation by Eli Lilly and Company, Mercia Ventures, Maven Capital Partners, Eos, UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund and Tekfen Ventures. The ...
PIXABAYSINGAPORE – The United States is backing a new undersea internet cable connecting several Pacific islands, according to a plan for the project seen by Reuters, boosting Washington’s interests in a region where it is vying for influence with China.The Central Pacific Cable would connect American Samoa with Guam – two US territories – and extend to up to ...