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Google’s parent-company Alphabet is scrapping a company set up to build giant balloons to beam the internet to rural areas. Loon was a long-term experimental bet from the tech giant’s “X” business

To see the grotesqueness of what’s happening in America … this is not the America I dreamed of as a child. This is not the America I grew up wanting to be a part of, the

HSBC is to close 82 branches in the UK between April and September this year, claiming customers are turning to digital banking. The company will have 511 branches across the country following

Imagine having to search through all the documents, emails and messages of a huge multinational company. Yousr Khalil does not have to imagine. The forensic accountant was part of a team that

Portland, Oregon-based Conversa Health, a virtual care and communication platform that helps health organizations stay in touch with their patients and customers, today announced that it has expanded its Series B funding round from $12

The pandemic has hastened a shift of most commerce becoming e-commerce in the last year, and that has brought a new focus on startups that are helping to enable that process. In

As was the case 12 years ago, Joe Biden enters the White House on an economic rescue mission after an historic US and global recession. Then he was vice president and the

The UK’s inflation rate jumped in December despite Covid curbs that forced non-essential shops to shut. The Consumer Price Index rose to 0.6%, from 0.3% in November, pushed higher by rising transport

Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma has made his first appearance since Chinese regulators cracked down on his business empire. His absence had fuelled speculation over his whereabouts amid increasing official scrutiny of

The social and economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic helped win Joe Biden the White House – and his first months in office will be devoted to tackling it. He has called

The UK and US have failed to do a much hoped for “mini-deal” over trade in the last days of the Trump administration. There were hopes the US would lift tariffs on