US giants size up bid for Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia

US giants size up bid for Topshop empire: Juicy Couture owner and a host of private equity titans battle for Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia Authentic Brands is understood to be among the interested parties  Around 30 to 40 potential buyers are believed to have shown initial interest  By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: … Read more

Foil tricks energy giants use to hang on to your cash

After gas and electricity firms are made to return £38M to customers…How to foil sneaky tricks energy giants use to hang on to huge piles of YOUR cash Energy providers have stumped up £26.5m in fines It takes the overall bill for wrongdoing this year to nearly £65m – the highest since 2015 By Laura … Read more

Kate Mara says her family’s ownership of Giants and Steelers makes for ‘stressful’ Sundays

Kate Mara says her family’s ownership of the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers makes for ‘stressful’ Sundays By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 06:47 GMT, 7 December 2020 | Updated: 06:47 GMT, 7 December 2020 Football Sundays can get tricky for Kate Mara. The 37-year-old actress tells Ellen Monday of the complicated dynamics of family and … Read more

Drug giants to restart medicine trials unrelated to Covid

Drug companies ready to restart clinical trials of medicines for life-threatening conditions unrelated to coronavirus By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 5 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 5 December 2020 British drug companies are ready to restart clinical trials of medicines for life-threatening conditions unrelated to coronavirus.  Haseeb Ahmad – … Read more

Minister blasts ‘morally reprehensible’ social media giants over people-smugglers’ posts

Minister blasts ‘morally reprehensible’ social media giants for failing to remove ‘marketing material’ for people-smugglers ferrying illegal migrants to Britain Chris Philp said firms had ‘obligation’ to remove such material very quickly Threatened to name-and-shame businesses that did not comply in the future  ‘It is morally reprehensible for social media companies to leave material online’  … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Threat of the digital giants

ALEX BRUMMER: Taking on the digital giants will be like David versus Goliath without an effective slingshot By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 27 November 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 27 November 2020 There is absolutely no question that amid the commercial carnage unleashed by coronavirus, the biggest winners have been … Read more

Online tech giants should pay news providers for using their content, peers say

Online tech giants should pay news providers for using their content under a ‘mandatory’ code, peers have demanded in a landmark new report. It paints a worrying picture of a ‘fundamental imbalance of power’ between news publishers and platforms. This comes as Government announced plans for a new competition regime designed to rein in the … Read more

MPs accuse tech giants of fuelling an ‘e-waste tsunami’ by designing products with short shelf life

MPs accuse tech giants of fuelling an ‘e-waste tsunami’ by designing products with a short shelf life MPs are calling for a change in the law to stop ‘planned obsolescence’ by firms Apple, Amazon and others also criticised for failing to offer accessibly recycling The attack comes from MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) They … Read more

Telecoms giants to remove Huawei kit from their networks?

Telecoms giants braced for ‘Huawei Bill’ ordering them to strip technology from Chinese tech firm out of their network By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 14 November 2020 | Updated: 23:25 GMT, 14 November 2020 Telecoms giants are braced for a ‘Huawei Bill’ that will order them to strip technology from … Read more

Property giants pin hopes on Covid vaccine to ease the pressure

Property giants pin hopes on Covid vaccine as commercial landlord Land Securities unveils £1bn write-down By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:15 GMT, 10 November 2020 | Updated: 22:15 GMT, 10 November 2020 Property bosses are pinning their hopes on a Covid-19 vaccine to ease pressure on the industry after Britain’s biggest commercial … Read more