Image copyright Getty Images Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has opened its doors to US sellers on its oldest platform, Alibaba.com. It now offers tools to allow US firms to sell on the business-to-business platform in the US and globally. The move will allow Alibaba, traditionally China-focused, to compete with global e-commerce giants like Amazon. Alibaba.com […]
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Image copyright Sam Mellish The government has been accused of prolonging the national housing crisis by failing to sell enough land for affordable and social housing. The Public Accounts Committee said the UK would miss its 2020 target of public land sales “by a wide margin”. It said the government “has wasted a once-in-a-generation opportunity
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Image copyright Anti-Slavery International Warning: This article contains an image which readers may find distressing. The black-and-white photograph shows a man, perched on the edge of a wooden deck, looking down at two objects. At first, you can’t take in what they are. In the background are palm trees. Two other men stare grimly at
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Image copyright Getty Images The US Justice Department has announced an investigation into leading online platforms, examining whether they are unfairly restricting competition. The DoJ did not name any firms, but companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple are likely to be scrutinised in the wide-ranging probe. It was sparked by “widespread concerns” about
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Image copyright EDF Image caption Sizewell C (light grey on right) would be built north of the existing Sizewell B plant Energy consumers are being asked to share the cost of building new nuclear power plants, including any overrun costs. In a new document, the government outlined its new financing strategy for nuclear including Sizewell
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption“One of our biggest risks to the outlook comes from an escalation of tensions in trade” The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its growth forecasts for the global economy for this year and next. It predicts growth of 3.2% in 2019, down from its April forecast
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Image copyright Getty Images Oxfordshire hemp farm Hempen expects to lose an estimated £200,000 of sales by destroying its crop after losing its licence to grow it. Last year, the Home Office said UK farmers could not harvest hemp’s flowers for cannabis oil, or CBD, and could only grow seed and stalk. The ruling stops
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Image copyright Getty Images Huawei has cut more than 600 jobs at its US research unit Futurewei after Washington put the Chinese firm on a trade blacklist. The telecoms giant said the job cuts were due to “the curtailment of business operations caused by the US”. Washington added Huawei to its “entity list” in May
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Image copyright Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision Image caption Marcin first started writing antivirus software when he was 14 The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Marcin Kleczynski, chief executive and co-founder of US antivirus software company Malwarebytes. A lot of entrepreneurs have “a moment”.
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Image copyright Netflix Image caption Should we aim to make robots look exactly like humans or cute cartoonish versions of us? Humanoid robots are a familiar trope in popular culture, but is making machines look like us a little bit creepy and even potentially dangerous? Whether it is Isaac Asimov’s robotics novels, 1980s movie character
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