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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The company’s expansion is aimed at improving support for delivery riders Online food delivery company Deliveroo has announced plans to create 70 highly-skilled jobs at its new Edinburgh headquarters this year. It follows the company’s acquisition of Edinburgh software firm Cultivate. Deliveroo had previously said it hoped to create […]

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionVideo from the scene shows the aftermath of the crash A Ukrainian Boeing-737 with more than 170 people from seven countries on board has crashed in Iran. Iran’s Red Crescent said there was no chance of finding survivors. Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv

Image copyright Getty Images Sales at Sainsbury’s fell slightly in the weeks around the Christmas period. The supermarket’s like-for-like sales in the 15 weeks before 4 January were 0.7% lower than last year. While grocery sales actually increased by 0.4%, poor sales in the division that includes Argos, which is owned by Sainsbury’s, weighed on

Image copyright Getty Images Broadly speaking, the people in charge of running our railways have two big challenges. They can be summarised in two simple words: punctuality and overcrowding. But attempts to fix the ‘o’-word can sometimes make the ‘p’-word worse. It’s at the heart of much of the recent disruption on Britain’s railways. Apart

Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Lawyers for ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn have attacked the company, accusing it of conducting a biased investigation of his leadership. They said the inquiry, which led to his arrest in Japan, was launched with “the specific, predetermined purpose of taking down Carlos Ghosn”. “That investigation was never about finding the truth,”

Image copyright Getty Images Customers of Travelex say they feel let down after being left with no travel money from the company which is in the midst of a cyber attack. On Tuesday the foreign currency trader confirmed that it is the victim of an ongoing ransomware attack. The criminals behind the hack told the

Image copyright Getty Images A quarter of people aged 25 and over who should be receiving the minimum wage are being underpaid, according to the Resolution Foundation think tank. The group’s research shows the number of firms not complying with minimum wage payments has increased since the National Living Wage started in 2016. Before then,

Amazon, Alphabet, Alibaba, Facebook, Tencent – five of the world’s 10 most valuable companies, all less than 25 years old – and all got rich, in their own ways, on data. No wonder it’s become common to call data the “new oil”. As recently as 2011, five of the top 10 were oil companies. Now,

Image copyright Getty Images Oil prices have jumped after at least two airbases hosting US troops in Iraq were attacked. Crude oil jumped by as much as 4.5% to $65.65 in Asian morning trade on concerns that this could disrupt oil supplies from the Middle East. So-called safe haven assets, like gold and the Japanese

How would you feel if the person who set up stall next to you at work was the overall boss of your company? Would you be frozen in fear or see it as your chance to impress? Paolo Guglielmini is CEO of MSC Software, which has more than 1,000 employees worldwide. Wherever he travels, he