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Image copyright Menelaos Myrillas Image caption Greek entrepreneurs Dimitris Kokkinakis and Sophie Lamprou say they are unsure of the future, but will continue with their business regardless Setting up a business in a country that is struggling to recover from a severe economic crisis is hardly the most ideal of circumstances. So Greek entrepreneurs Dimitris […]

Image copyright Getty Images “There’s no guarantee that Amazon.com can be a successful company. What we’re trying to do is very complicated,” said Jeff Bezos in 1999, just five years after launching the online firm. That the firm’s founder was so uncertain of its future seems surprising. Today, 25 years on from when it started,

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption E.On’s mistake saw hundreds of customer email addresses exposed Energy supplier E.On has apologised for an “error” which saw hundreds of customers’ email addresses included on requests for their meter readings. The automatic messages should have been addressed to each individual only, but had another 497 recipients listed. E.On

Image copyright Getty Images The UK’s productivity puzzle is costing private sector workers an estimated £5,000 a year on average in lost income, a top statistician has said. Lower output per worker since the financial crisis had translated into “sluggish wage growth”, said Katherine Kent, head of productivity at the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Image copyright Getty Images The US labour market boomed in June, creating many more jobs than expected, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It showed that 224,000 jobs were created in June, many more than the 160,000 that economists had forecast. It was also a rebound from the relatively modest

Image copyright Getty Images Fewer people should have to pay tax on gifts given just before death, under proposals for a major overhaul of the inheritance tax system. At present, when someone dies within seven years of passing on money, property or possessions to loved ones, tax of up to 40% must be paid. The

Image copyright Cate Huston Image caption Cate Huston’s team met in Thailand earlier this year There’s a growing trend for firms to ditch their offices entirely, but is that good or bad for workers? “Talent is evenly distributed but opportunity is often not,” says Cate Huston. “Working this way means you can access that talent

Image copyright Alamy William Hill’s decision to close 700 shops could just be the beginning of a wave of High Street betting shop closures, an analyst has warned. Between 2,000 and 3,000 bookies could close out of the UK’s 8,400 shops, analyst Gavin Kelleher told the BBC. William Hill blamed the closures on the UK

Image copyright Saitex Image caption Jeans, such as these at Saitex’s factory in Vietnam, can now be made without waste water being released into the environment As consumers become ever more concerned about environmental and ethical issues, pioneers in the global denim industry are cleaning up its act. Blackhorse Lane Ateliers, which describes itself as

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionPaul Njorogre says his family died because of Boeing’s “negligence” “I lost my wife Carole, my three children Ryan, Kelly and Ruby and I also lost my mum-in-law. I feel so lonely. I look at people. I see them with their children playing outside and I cannot