The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Michael Bloomberg backs London with more than £400m in new climate funding during London Climate Action Week, betting that the green transition will drive UK jobs…
UK unemployment fell to 4.9% in the three months to April as pay growth outpaced forecasts, handing the Bank of England fresh data hours before its…
Tim Cook says Apple price rises are "unavoidable" as AI-driven demand quadruples memory and storage chip costs. What the DRAM and NAND crunch means for buyers.
Jeff Bezos has backed Cambridge materials-discovery start-up CuspAI through Bezos Expeditions, in a $400m round that lifts its valuation to $2.6bn.
Manchester is the UK's leading city outside London to start a business, new research finds, as women founders back regional hubs over the capital.
Britain risks forfeiting £250bn over the next decade, 8% of GDP, unless it tackles the G7's highest electricity costs, PwC warns, urging a government-led national energy…
The founder of the world's largest serviced office provider is stepping back from the day-to-day running of the business he built from a single idea in…
President Trump has reopened his long-running feud with Paris, warning that he will slap a 100 per cent tariff on French wine and champagne unless President…
Downing Street is lobbying the White House for a UK carve-out after Donald Trump banned foreign access to Anthropic's most advanced Claude models, citing security risks.
A quarter of UK manufacturers have moved production overseas or are considering it, as Make UK warns that the highest energy costs in the world are…
Retailers warn that delaying abolition of the £135 de minimis customs threshold until 2029 will cost more high street shops and let unsafe imports flood Britain…
The NTIA has thrown its weight behind Andy Burnham's call to cut VAT on hospitality and the night-time economy, warning the sector cannot survive three more…
More than 90 business leaders and 19 MPs have written to Rachel Reeves warning that a "death by a thousand cuts" on tax is driving Britain's…
From Bank of Dave founder David Fishwick to Citigroup chief Jane Fraser, we round up the entrepreneurs and business leaders recognised in the King's Birthday Honours…
HMRC will make more than 30,000 high street interventions in 2026/27, targeting vape shops, barbers and souvenir stores used as fronts for tax fraud and money…