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Samsung Electronics has become one of the leading beneficiaries of the global artificial intelligence boom. Surging demand for semiconductors has turned South Korea’s largest corporation into a $1 trillion company this year, propelling Seoul’s stock market to rank as...
US President Donald Trump has imposed a 50% tariff on a wide range of goods imported from Canada, in retaliation for what he called "unequal treatment" of US cars, dairy and alcohol.
They have a word for it in German – kohleausstieg, which means "coal phase out".Germany is the biggest user of coal for power generation in Europe, and the fourth largest in the world after China, India and the US....
McCarron, in Hanley Swan, said she felt lucky she had filled her 2,000 litre tank for £1,200 days before the conflict started.The oil will last their household of four, which includes her mother, daughter and husband, until the autumn."Had...
An organisation that rescues hundreds of tonnes of surplus food from going to waste wants to expand its work.Food in Community, a Dartington-based community interest company, has been collecting unwanted and extra crops from local growers and farmers for...
Tariffs have never been far from the headlines during President Trump's second term in office and another raft of these import taxes has just come into force. So are US households really paying 1.5% more because of them?The BBC's...
According to the latest data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), EV sales have surged to the point that they made up almost one in every three new cars sold in the UK in June, external.Ian...
CEO Satya Nadella...
Bill payers are being urged to submit a meter reading as household energy prices rise by 13% for millions of people in England, Scotland and Wales on Wednesday.Anyone whose tariff is affected by regulator Ofgem's price cap and does...
Like Keerthana, Alicia Munhupedzi used the internet to find her dress - though it was a bit last minute.
"I thought, 'Where can I get a nice dress really quickly and cheaply?'"
The answer? Depop, the second-hand clothing app popular among...
Watt recently apologised to staff and investors for the "many mistakes" made in the management of the company, admitting that it tried to diversify too quickly.Brewdog's brash marketing style had regularly sparked controversy, but the firm also faced criticism...
