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Airbnb is cracking down on wild house parties and unruly guests with a new set of rules and regulations for both hosts and renters. The company announced three new policies on Thursday, more than a month after a deadly shooting broke out at a Halloween party hosted in a home in the San Francisco Bay […]

Image copyright Getty Images Labour plans to make the entire UK bus fleet electric by 2030 with a £4bn investment, if it wins the general election. This would reduce bus emissions by more than 70%, cutting air pollution and helping to tackle climate change, the party said. But Conservatives claim the plans are part of

The chief executive officer of Away luggage company Steph Korey apologized after a damning report revealed her mistreatment of former staff and cultivation of a toxic work environment.  On Thursday, The Verge published an article speaking to former employees of the popular suitcase company. The piece featured Korey’s harsh messages to workers on Slack ―

Image copyright Getty Images Greetings card retailer Clintons has struck a deal that will stop it going bust this Christmas, administrators KPMG have said. The firm will be salvaged through a complex transaction that allows it to be sold back to its existing owners. It means Clinton’s 334 stores can keep trading for now, saving

Investors in the UK’s biggest commercial property fund – worth £2.5bn – have been temporarily prevented from taking out their money. Investment firm M&G said withdrawals from its Property Portfolio fund had been suspended after investors consistently withdrew their savings. The firm blamed “Brexit-related political uncertainty” and difficulties in the retail sector for the situation.

Image copyright AFP Image caption Sundar Pichai is the new chief executive of Alphabet Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google, has been put in charge of its parent company Alphabet, after co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced they were stepping down. The 47-year-old said the pair had set up a “strong foundation” on

Image copyright Getty Images Sterling has jumped after opinion polls suggested the UK would avoid a hung parliament after next week’s election. The pound reached a seven month high against the dollar and its highest level against the euro since May 2017. The move came after polls suggested a 10-point lead for the Conservative party

Image copyright Getty Images Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he would press ahead with a digital sales tax even after the US threatened to punish France for a similar move. In a proposal first outlined last year, large online companies face a tax of 2% of UK sales from April 2020. Mr Johnson said

Image copyright Getty Images The UK’s top firms have failed to make any progress on increasing ethnic diversity amongst top executives, a new report has found. Ethnic minority representation has fallen over the past year and 47 companies still have all-white staff at board and executive director level. “The glass ceiling hasn’t been broken for

Image copyright Hyunjin Seo Image caption Hyungin Seo says China does not need western technology firms When Hyunjin Seo visited Beijing in July last year, she scrolled through Google News on her smartphone and discovered several reports about an attack on the city’s US embassy. An associate professor at the University of Kansas’s journalism department,