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Image copyright Getty Images Dixons Carphone’s shares slipped after it said its earlier report of a rise in sales before Christmas was wrong. Sales for the last 10 weeks of 2019 actually fell by 2% rather than going up by 2% as the company told investors earlier on Tuesday. The shares were up 2% after […]

Image copyright Getty Images France has agreed to delay collecting a new tax on multinational technology firms until the end of 2020, a French government official has told the BBC. The digital services tax has provoked an angry response from Washington. The US had threatened to impose retaliatory tariffs on $2.4bn (£1.8bn) of French goods,

Image copyright PA Media Image caption Northern passengers faced rail chaos when new timetables were introduced in May 2018 Network Rail is being investigated over its poor service on routes used by troubled train operators Northern and TransPennine Express. The government-owned firm has been put “on a warning” for routes in the North West and

Image copyright Getty Images A record number of women in full-time work has pushed the UK’s employment rate to a new high of 76.3%, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show. In the three months to November, 126,000 more women worked full-time compared with the previous quarter. The increase is in part

Image copyright Getty Images Facebook is to create 1,000 new jobs in London by the end of the year. The new posts will take the tech giant’s total number of UK employees to more than 4,000. More than half of them will be technology-focused, with roles in software engineering, product design and data science, the

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption A woman wears a mask while walking past the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which has been linked to cases of Coronavirus, in Wuhan Shares in Chinese drug makers have risen sharply as concerns grow over a new virus spreading across the country. Several pharmaceutical giants on the Shanghai

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Uber Eats launched in India in 2017 Uber has sold its food delivery service in India to local rival Zomato, the firms have announced. Uber will get a 9.99% stake in the Indian start-up, helping it maintain its presence in the sector. All Uber Eats customers in India will

Image copyright Sirius Minerals Image caption The project is set to be the world’s largest polyhalite mine Thousands of people who invested in a £4bn mining project may be left out of pocket as a result of a takeover bid. Up to 85,000 small investors sank cash into the Sirius Mineral development near Whitby before

A quarter of employees think their company turns a blind eye to workplace bullying and harassment, according to a report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Although 15% have experienced bullying in the past three years, more than half of them did not report it to the firm. “Fear is the biggest

Image copyright And Rising Image caption Jonathan Trimble, chief executive of And Rising Jonathan Trimble’s advertising agency And Rising took a £90,000 hit in the House of Fraser administration in 2018. It was one of hundreds of suppliers caught up by the insolvency, which left unsecured debts of nearly £500m. House of Fraser was “pre-packed”