British Gas is the first of the Big Six to announce its hiking its prices for default customers

British Gas is the first of the Big Six to announce it’s hiking prices for millions of default tariff customers in April after the price cap announcement The Big Six provider is the first to announce its hiking its prices in April  It is increasing costs in response to the energy price cap announcement  Default … Read more

Buy now, pay later: Don’t let shoppers sign up by default, MPs say

Britain’s biggest retailers should take buy now, pay later services off their websites and prevent shoppers from signing up for debt financing at the checkout by default, MPs have said, after the £2.7billion industry was found to pose ‘significant’ potential harm to shoppers. A review into the booming sector published earlier in the week found … Read more

Buy now, pay later: Don’t let shoppers sign up by default, MPs say

Britain’s biggest retailers should take buy now, pay later services off their websites and prevent shoppers from signing up for debt financing at the checkout by default, MPs have said, after the £2.7billion industry was found to pose ‘significant’ potential harm to shoppers. A review into the booming sector published earlier in the week found … Read more

More than 1.4m firms are given more time to repay Covid ‘bounce back’ loans over default fears 

More than 1.4million businesses are given more time to repay Covid ‘bounce back’ loans over fears of economic catastrophe Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce a ‘pay as you grow’ scheme Almost £4.5billion has been loaned under the Government scheme so far New measures will allow businesses to extend loan terms from six to … Read more

More than 1.4m firms are given more time to repay Covid ‘bounce back’ loans over default fears 

More than 1.4million businesses are given more time to repay Covid ‘bounce back’ loans over fears of economic catastrophe Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce a ‘pay as you grow’ scheme Almost £4.5billion has been loaned under the Government scheme so far New measures will allow businesses to extend loan terms from six to … Read more

Warning of ‘lockdown by default’ as Hancock faces fury over testing shambles

The testing fiasco is on the brink of dooming the country to a de facto lockdown with keeping schools open ‘unsustainable’, ministers were warned today. Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock are facing fury after the system descended into a shambles, with millions of people struggling to get checked. The Health Secretary was humiliatingly forced to … Read more

Nest cameras reduced to default video quality in an effort to preserve internet capacity

Google’s Nest security cameras reduced to default video quality in an effort to preserve internet capacity during coronavirus lockdown By James Pero For Dailymail.com Published: 23:37 BST, 15 April 2020 | Updated: 23:37 BST, 15 April 2020 Nest will join the list of companies lowering video fidelity to help cope with added strain on internet … Read more

Apple may let users set their own default apps in iOS amid criticism for pushing its own services

Apple may finally start letting users set their own default apps in iOS amid criticism for pushing its own services iOS users may finally be able to designate non-Apple apps for default use This would do away with automatically having to use Safari or Apple Mail The plans are in early stages but could be … Read more