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A US financial regulator has urged better disclosures for investors who buy company stock through private placements, citing the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX as an example of the dangers of opaque offerings. Private placements are sales of equity outside of...

Coinbse Wallet has introduced transaction previews and token approval alerts to help users protect against scams. The wallet is also enhancing token approval alerts and has added Ledger hardware wallet compatibility. The goal is to protect Web3 users against NFT...

The government “should not proceed” with its bill of rights. That was the withering judgment delivered last week on Dominic Raab’s proposals by parliament’s joint committee on human rights. MPs and peers assessed the bill and correctly decided that the...

Defence secretary Ben Wallace has said he is “not shy” over taking action on armed forces housing standards, warning the Ministry of Defence (MoD) will keep contracts “under review”.Cabinet minister Mr Wallace said he was “most concerned about mould and...

In this paper, we focus on a specific group of informal SWM actors, the informal collectors. Their position is different from that of, say, waste pickers and recyclers, in that these latter groups often grow parallel to the quantity of...

February is a special month, especially for readers of this column. No, not just because the month kicks off with GoI's annual budgetary plans that could affect businesses and pockets - always in a great way, going by the post-mortems...

Make sure you hire an outsider as the next chief executive, went the clamour from Unilever’s frustrated shareholders when the current boss, Alan Jope, said last September he’d be checking out.The sense that the Dove-to-Marmite titan requires a kick that...

WITH only two weeks until Valentine’s Day, it’s the time to make some sweet savings on a romantic date with your partner. From a candlelit concert to crafting your own chocolates, we have gathered a selection of deals you will...

The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has promised to press ahead with a city-wide ultra-low emission zone to stop people “breathing poison” as he launched a £110m scrappage scheme to help replace polluting vehicles.Ulez will be expanded to the Greater...

The Metropolitan police is being urged to crack down on Iranian terrorism in the UK by prosecuting a former senior Iranian government official accused of advocating the fatwa against Sir Salman Rushdie.The Metropolitan police has been studying a legal dossier...

The British electric vans startup Arrival is cutting 800 jobs, about half its remaining workforce, to reduce costs as it seeks extra funding and plans US expansion to take advantage of green energy subsidies.The troubled electric vehicle maker said “approximately...

Keet Mobile is a fully encrypted, P2P chat dApp for mobile devices lsunched in alpha mode with instant messaging. Tether, Bitfinex and Holepunch announced Keet for desktop in July last year. Keet Mobile is device agnostic and powered by Lightning...

A personal injury firm claims to have become the first of its kind to offer pupillage to aspiring barristers. North west firm Express Solicitors will hear applications for four pupillage positions in each of the next two years, and plans to...

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to announce its eighth consecutive rate hike at this week's policy meeting. This time, Fed officials likely will approve a 0.25 percentage point increase as inflation starts to ease, a more modest pace compared with...

LSV Asset Management lifted its holdings in shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE - Get Rating) by 4.4% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 16,383,091 shares of...

BUSINESS LIVE: Unilever appoints new CEO; Shell combines gas and upstream businesses; Lidl boosts 2023 UK food investment to £4bnBy Live Commentary Published: 07:39 GMT, 30 January 2023 | Updated: 15:43 GMT, 30 January 2023 ...

Wybo Wiersma scammed more than 100 people with his fake cryptocurrency site (Picture: Central News/SEROCU)An Oxford University graduate has been jailed for four and a half years after stealing around £2 million in cryptocurrency from more than 100 people. Dutch...

Today we're tracking a few deals on cases for the iPhone and iPad. Specifically, this includes the Magic Keyboard case for the 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro, as well as Clear, Silicone, and Leather cases for the iPhone 14 family...

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with government members via a video link from a residence outside Moscow, Russia, January 11, 2023. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS 2/2 MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin held...

© Reuters. These Analysts Revise Price Targets On Charter Communications Following Downbeat Q4 Earnings Benzinga - Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) reported worse-than-expected Q4 results. Charter Communications reported quarterly revenue growth of 3.5% year-on-year to $13.67 billion, narrowly missing the consensus...

The actor Eva Green has told a high court case in which she is suing a film company over the collapse of a multimillion-pound independent film that she does not care about fees and lives to make good films, describing...

The EU is stepping up its green subsidy race with the US through plans to loosen state aid rules on tax credits for renewable energy projects.European policymakers have been under pressure to respond to the US president Joe Biden’s $369bn...

This is the second of a four-part series on the North Star goals that set category leaders apart from their peers. The first part (one-to-one, omnichannel personalization) can be found here. Today’s customers have two, sometimes opposing needs. They want...

Padel court company is now valued at more than £23m, after its fifth funding round READ SOURCE...

Team Belgium Demo Wins Top Prize for Attribute-Based Encryption Application that Protects Images Containing Private or Sensitive Information NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT  announced that a team from NTT Global in Belgium took first place in its hackathon...

The backpack’s built-in filter and fans clean polluted air nearby (Picture: PA)A schoolgirl, inspired by her asthmatic mother, has won a national innovation competition by designing a backpack that filters air to protect people from airborne hazards. Eleanor Woods, from High Burton, Huddersfield,...

Nicola Bulley, 45, was last seen on Friday at around 9.15am while walking along a footpath to a river - her dog Willow was found as a massive search has been launched READ SOURCE...

MINA crypto has displayed extremely bullish momentum over the last 7 days boasting a pump beyond 30%. With the bulls in full control traders anticipate positive price continuation to the upside. Whilst it seems $0.94 was a major resistance earlier today, speculators...

Bitcoin addresses in profit is at a 9-month high of 30+ million. More unique addresses in profit were last above 30 million in early April 2022. Non-zero addresses also hit a 1-month high while addresses with 0.01+ BTC is at...

A worsening macroeconomic climate and the collapse of industry giants like FTX and Terra have weighed on bitcoin's price this year.STR | Nurphoto via Getty ImagesCrypto losses can offset investment gainsOne of the silver linings of plummeting assets is the...