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The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK

Waitrose has admitted to blocking rivals from opening supermarkets in close locations for close to a decade, according to the market watchdog.

Waitrose in talks with Amazon over online grocery deal

9 October 2023 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Waitrose is reportedly in talks with Amazon to sell groceries via the internet marketplace, in an attempt to lure in more shoppers and claw back market share.

Jeremy Hunt announced his Spring Budget today, with many for UK business, those looking to get back into the employment market 

Britain’s manufacturers urge Hunt to ditch autumn statement to provide financial solidity

9 October 20239 October 2023 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Manufacturers have urged Jeremy Hunt to do away with the autumn statement, insisting that the constant “flip-flopping” on policy is holding back investment and is making the UK “uncompetitive”.

Metro Bank

Metro Bank seals a near billion pound rescue deal

9 October 2023 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Metro Bank has clinched a £925 million funding deal last night that shores up the troubled lender but inflicts pain on its investors and leaves the group shouldering expensive borrowing costs.

It’s no secret that AI is a trending topic hot on many organisations’ agendas and strategies. However, with the release of ChatGPT, and Machine Learning continuously evolving, cybersecurity service providers, ramsac, are advising businesses not to blindly jump in with AI.

BBC blocks ChatGPT from accessing and using its content

6 October 20237 October 2023 News, Technology Business Matters 0 Comments

The BBC has blocked the artificial intelligence software behind ChatGPT from accessing or using its content amid copyright and privacy concerns, after concluding that it was “not in the public interest”.

Pub giant JD Wetherspoon has announced it will sell off 32 pubs across the UK due to rising costs.

Wetherspoons toasts first annual profits since pandemic

6 October 2023 News Business Matters 0 Comments

JD Wetherspoon has credited a surge in sales and reduction in costs for its first annual profit since the COVID pandemic.

British Airways pilots threaten strike action over pay deal

BA pilots on brink of three-year pay deal to avert threat of strike

6 October 2023 News Business Matters 0 Comments

British Airways is on the brink of a long-term pay deal with its pilots, aimed at removing the renewed threat of strike action until at least 2027.

UK oil and gas companies need to do more if they are to meet an official target of halving their emissions from fossil fuel extraction by the end of the decade, the North Sea regulator has warned.

UK oil and gas sector ‘must it must do more’ to meet 2030 emissions target

6 October 2023 News Business Matters 0 Comments

UK oil and gas companies need to do more if they are to meet an official target of halving their emissions from fossil fuel extraction by the end of the decade, the North Sea regulator has warned.

Uber said on Thursday it is responding to a cybersecurity incident, after the New York Times reported that a hack had breached the company’s network and forced it to take several internal communications and engineering systems offline.

Uber ordered to pay €584,000 in penalties for failure to comply with court order

5 October 2023 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The District Court of Amsterdam has today ruled that Uber has failed to comply with the April 2023 Court of Appeal order that Uber must provide transparency into the automated decision to dismiss two drivers from the UK and Portugal.

UK publishers have urged the prime minister to protect authors’ and other content makers’ intellectual property rights as part of a summit on artificial intelligence.

ChatGPT overtakes Netflix in web traffic

5 October 2023 News, Technology Business Matters 0 Comments

The digital landscape continues to evolve, mainly driven by the ceaseless march of technological innovation. Amid this ever-shifting landscape, ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) language model developed by OpenAI, has risen to prominence, outshining some of the most dominant players in the online ecosystem.

The UK government has announced it is temporarily reintroducing the Plug-in Car Grant (PiCG) due to the continuing delays in manufacturing supply chains, including the conflict in Ukraine and the global semiconductor shortage.

Drop in consumers buying electric cars as new number plate released

5 October 2023 News, Technology Business Matters 0 Comments

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has stopped showing headlines for links posted on the site, after site owner Elon Musk said it would make posts look better.

Shopping centres are so much more than a place to purchase a new outfit or a loved one’s birthday gift. In recent years, they’ve become an exciting social hub that serves in strengthening communities and shaping urban areas.

Retail sector woes continue with flat sales in September

5 October 2023 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Retailers recorded total like-for-like sales growth of just +0.2% across discretionary categories in September, with this low level of growth comparing to an already very weak base in September 2022, according to accountancy and business advisory firm, BDO LLP.

Rishi Sunak today announced plans to scrap A-levels and T-levels by combining them into a new single qualification known as the 'Advanced British Standard'.

Sunak scraps A-levels and T-levels combining them into new baccalaureate-style ‘Advanced British Standard’ with pupils to study at five subjects including maths and English to 18

4 October 20234 October 2023 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Rishi Sunak today announced plans to scrap A-levels and T-levels by combining them into a new single qualification known as the ‘Advanced British Standard’.

Rishi Sunak has outlined a series of measures to water down the government’s climate change commitments as he claimed that politicians had not been “honest with the public” about the cost of net zero.

Rishi Sunak announces plan to gradually ban smoking

4 October 2023 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Rishi Sunak has announced plans to eventually ban smoking by raising the legal age people can buy cigarettes by one year, every year.

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that he is scrapping HS2 to Manchester.

Rishi Sunak confirms Manchester HS2 line is scrapped

4 October 2023 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that he is scrapping HS2 to Manchester.

UK petrol prices rise above 150p a litre for first time since January

Petrol prices rise for fourth month in a row

4 October 2023 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Petrol prices have risen for the fourth month in a row, jumping by 4.5p a litre on average last month, the RAC says.

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