The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Facebook has revealed a profit of $9bn (£6.5bn) in the three months to September, up from $7.8bn (£5.6bn) last year and higher than expected.
The haulage industry has urged Boris Johnson to step up “lacklustre” efforts to tackle a shortage of 100,000 HGV drivers, telling him to act now on…
Tesla’s market value has broken through the $1tn mark for the first time after the US electric car pioneer received an order for 100,000 of its…
Premier Inn owner Whitbread has said it will pay millions in wage rises and bonuses to try to combat what it calls persistent staff shortages.
PayPal is not pursuing an acquisition of Pinterest, the digital payments group said yesterday, after reports last week that it was in talks to buy the…
Rishi Sunak will confirm one of the biggest increases in the minimum wage this week after independent advisers recommended that the main rate should rise to…
More “draconian” measures could be reintroduced in Wales if cases of Covid-19 continue to soar, the country’s chief medical officer has warned.
Tesco has been hit by hackers, leaving thousands of frustrated shoppers unable to buy groceries online at Britain’s biggest supermarket.
Phone providers are to automatically block online calls from abroad that are made to look as if they come from UK numbers, as part of efforts…
HSBC’s profits rose 74% in the third quarter as improving economic conditions allowed the bank to release hundreds of millions of pounds originally set aside for…
The majority of UK employers are planning to hire staff over the next 12 months, the highest recruitment intentions in eight years, as Brexit and the…
A group of 30 UK millionaires have called on the chancellor to tax them and other rich people more because they can afford to pay it…
More than a third of companies believe that the chancellor should increase taxes to tackle greenhouse gases as part of “a carrot and stick” approach to…
Three-quarters of office workers in the UK have either witnessed or personally experienced misconduct at some point in their careers, according to a new study commissioned.
A Brewdog promotion which said customers could win "solid gold" beer cans was misleading, the advertising watchdog has found.