While wiped out its profits during the first half of its financial year, identity verification specialist GB Group hailed the “excellent strategic progress” it had made. The Chester-based company employs around 1,200 people and works with Volvo, HSBC, eBay, John Lewis, ASOS, Lego, Santander, and IBM. It recently hit the headlines after takeover talks with a Chicago-based private equity firm were...
With the help of EasyJet, Rolls-Royce has completed the world’s first-ever hydrogen-powered modern engine test. The engineering giant and low-cost operator carried out the test at the MoD’s Boscombe Down facility in Wiltshire, using a converted Rolls-Royce AE 2100-A turboprop aircraft engine. The hydrogen was created using 100 percent wind and tidal power at the European Marine Energy Centre...
Thousands of UK households will receive eco grants to upgrade their homes as part of a three-year project slated for an announcement next week. A scheme called Eco Plus, expected to cost a billion pounds, will run for three years from April 2023 as part of the Chancellor’s plans to reduce Britain’s energy consumption by 15% by 2030. It is reported that the government is planning to help people...
Thousands of UK households will receive eco grants to upgrade their homes as part of a three-year project slated for an announcement next week. The “Eco Plus” scheme, which is said to cost £ 1 billion, will run for three years from April 2023 as part of the Chancellor’s aim to cut Britain’s energy use by 15% by 2030. With intelligent heating controls like thermostatic radiator valves and loft and...
The founder of a boating navigation app has been named the UK’s most successful scale-up entrepreneur this year due to “huge user growth.” The innovator in the application of graphene told the London Stock Exchange that an equity raise was not possible amid efforts to find funding as it faces the prospect of running out of money by the end of January. It blamed what it called “unfavorable...
This year, a boating navigation app founder was named the UK’s most successful scale-up entrepreneur after he experienced “huge user growth.” As part of the Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2022, Jelte Liebrand, founder of Savvy Navvy, was awarded the accolade for developing marine technology. It has nearly doubled its users in over 100 countries worldwide in the last year, according to the...
According to Saudi Arabia’s sports minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Faisal, his government would support private bids from Saudi Arabia for Manchester United and Liverpool. Despite the Saudi Public Investment Fund’s backing for Newcastle United last winter, Prince Abdulaziz said private businesses in his country are keen on the most successful English clubs, with both instructing banks...
As a result of ministers ignoring their request for formal talks over NHS pay, nurses across the UK will strike for the first time in two days a fortnight before Christmas. The Royal College of Nursing said its members would go on a national strike on December 15 and 20, the first in its 106-year history. Senior sources expected the industrial action to last 12 hours on both days, possibly...
There was an in-depth investigation Tuesday launched by Britain into the dominance of Apple and Google over mobile internet browsers and cloud gaming. A statement issued by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) after an initial study earlier this year stated that the CMA would examine whether Silicon Valley’s behavior limits consumer choice. According to the report, Apple and Google “have...
The Stats Perform, and Opta artificial intelligence prediction model predicted that England would win their first match by a one-to-ten margin, placing them fourth out of all the teams. Wales has only one in 200 chance of winning, and Brazil is still the favorite. Which team is expected to make the most progress? In Stats Perform’s and Opta’s prediction model, England will make it to the final...