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British households and businesses will be paid to cut their electricity use again as National Grid aims to reduce the strain on the energy network.The electricity system operator (ESO) said on Monday it was looking for bids from suppliers to...

Cal State Fullerton President Framroze “Fram” Virjee is retiring at the end of the school year, university officials announced Monday. Virjee was appointed in March 2019 to lead the largest Cal State in the system after serving as interim president...

Dignity approves £281m takeover by investor consortium fronted by funeral group's former boss Gary ChannonThree previous takeover proposals were rejected by Dignity's board last yearThe new bid represents a 29.2% premium to Dignity's share price on 3 January Sir Peter Wood,...

Last week, San Diego-based biotech company Rejuvenate Bio announced the startling results of a Harvard Medical School Lab study it had conducted - age reversal. Yes, it's not just an anti-ageing jab but an actual age-reversal process that rejuvenates cells,...

The most important decision we all have to make in life, to die without having suffering and mental torment forced on us by politicians or religious zealots, is again threatened. Polly Toynbee’s article is excellent (Today, 17 people will likely...

When teacher Angela Ratcliffe started treatment for breast cancer, she started wearing funny wigs to help her children come to terms with her hair loss.She hoped to raise a smile and raise cash for the Breast Cancer Now campaign.And now...

Introduction to decentralised identities, or DIDs and the non-fungible token (NFTs) space. Decentralised identity and use of zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) innovation. Other benefits, including protection for the regular user. There is still a lot of “wild west” in decentralised finance...

The UK’s first all-electric autonomous passenger bus drives around Milton Park, a business and science hub near Didcot, Oxfordshire (Picture: PA)The UK’s first self-driving electric bus service has been unveiled as part of a project to explore ‘the art of...

“Combustion is the problem – when you’re continuing to burn something, that’s not solving the problem,” says Prof Mark Jacobson.The Stanford University academic has a compelling pitch: the world can rapidly get 100% of its energy from renewable sources with,...

The UK energy regulator Ofgem is to investigate suppliers forcibly switching vulnerable customers to prepayment meters. Jonathan Brearley, chief executive of Ofgem, said on Monday that the regulator did not have legal powers to completely ban forced installations of prepayment...

Signage on a Saleforce office building in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJeff Ubben's Inclusive Capital has taken a position in Salesforce, according to sources, CNBC's David Faber reported Monday.It's...

Ubitricity plans to add 300 charging points to Liverpool, UK, lampposts, with each 5-kW charging point requiring under two hours to install. This type of curbside charger is aimed at apartment dwellers in cities who do not have overnight charging...

Jan 23 (Reuters) - New York’s chief financial regulator is set to release new guidance on Monday dictating that companies separate customers' crypto assets from their own, after alleged co-mingling of funds at collapsed crypto exchange FTX and its affiliated...

© Reuters Moderna, Kellogg And 2 Other Stocks Insiders Are Selling Benzinga - The Nasdaq settled higher on Friday, also notching gains for the week. Investors, meanwhile, focused on some notable insider trades. When insiders sell shares, it indicates their...

Jan 23 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Monday it would invest more in OpenAI, staking its future on the startup and tech behind the chatbot sensation ChatGPT, as well as setting the stage for more competition with its...

MILLIONS of households are being urged to check a number of appliances to help slash bills and prevent blackouts. Price comparison site GoCompare says families should check for "vampire appliances" that can drain your energy when left on standby. 1Turning...

Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF), which was launched in July 2020, has mobilised over Rs 30,000 crore for taking up projects related to creation of post-harvest management facilities. The AIF is a financing facility for creation of post-harvest management infrastructure and...

A Conservative health minister has a substantial financial stake in a private health screening and Covid testing firm, raising questions about the potential for a conflict of interest.Nick Markham, a businessman who was given a peerage under Liz Truss and...

Key Takeaways Crypto has risen to start the year off the back of expectations that interest rates may be cut sooner than anticipated This contrasts with the view that crypto is uncorrelated, proving it false Assessing the price action of...

Zahawi says 'I'm confident I acted properly throughout' as he welcomes inquiry into tax settlementNadhim Zahawi, the Conservative party chair, has welcomed the decision by Rishi Sunak to ask the No 10 ethics adviser to investigate his case. “I am...

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The crypto market continued to trade in the green on Monday evening. Many cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ripple (XRP) and Ethereum (ETH), were trading with gains. BTC was the most trending crypto today. The broader crypto market was up by...

Bitcoin had a tough 2022. Now investors are looking toward 2023 with caution when it comes to cryptocurrencies.Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty ImagesBitcoin rose further over the weekend, as traders took news of another crypto bankruptcy in their stride...

The prospect of criminal legal aid lawyers unionising - a move that would enable them to undertake full-blown strike action - remains on the cards after it emerged that two practitioner groups met union leaders last week. Appetite to unionise...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced that it has extended the deadline for banks to finish the process of renewing agreements for existing safe deposit locker customers in a phased manner by December 31, 2023. “It has come...

CBI: UK needs to match US and EU green spendingGood morning, and welcome to our live coverage of business, economics and financial markets.The head of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) will today say the UK is falling behind the...

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Woman holds British Pound banknotes in this illustration taken May 30, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration LONDON (Reuters) -Sterling retreated on Monday from a seven-month high against the dollar hit in Asian hours, having been helped last week...

President Joe Biden hoped to put the mishandling of sensitive government files behind him. Instead, the emergence of another batch of classified material now has his own party upset at him. Rather than close ranks, Democratic allies responded with exasperation...

Britain’s farming union has accused the chair of Tesco of living in a “parallel universe” after he said food companies may be using inflation as an excuse to increase prices further than necessary.Official inflation data for December, which was published...

(An excerpt from the book, "Shut Up and Keep Talking: Lessons on Life and Investing from the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange," by Bob Pisani.)Thirty years ago this week, State Street Global Advisors launched the Standard & Poor's Depositary...