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Facebook is releasing software that puts feeds from the social network on the home screen of Android phones.

Secret offshore havens ‘stain face of Britain’, says Lib Dem peer, as evidence grows over sham directors and hidden cash

HBOS’s former chairman and chief executives should be banned from working in the financial services sector after their “reckless” and “deluded” stewardship of the bank, a parliamentary body has argued.

HMV is set to be rescued in a £50m deal that will safeguard 2,500 jobs, three months after the music retailer collapsed into administration.

Former Goldman Sachs trader Matthew Marshall Taylor has pleaded guilty to defrauding the bank with an $8.3bn (£5.5bn) unauthorised trade in 2007.

Anthony Salz’s 244-page report – commissioned after Libor scandal – finds pay ‘contributed significantly to a sense among a few that they were somehow unaffected by the rules’

The Bank of England is unlikely to pump fresh money into Britain’s stagnant economy on Thursday, despite a new remit that gives it extra leeway to disregard above-target inflation.

Index of activity remains below recession cut-off point of 50, while eurozone manufacturing PMI falls to lowest level in three months

Utility giant gave ‘misleading and unsubstantiated statements’ to potential customers about prices and savings, says watchdog

The price of clothing and other non-food items on the high street has risen for the first time since 2011, providing an early sign of a revival in the retail sector and a potential boost for the British economy.

Record numbers of British workers are being employed on “zero hours” contracts which keep staff on standby and deny them regular hours, official figures disclose.

Levy has raised around £1.6tn but has become a headache for business with hopes for a cheap and simple EU tax in the past

British Chambers of Commerce survey suggests any improvement in economy is likely to be slow and protracted

Small businesses are being warned to beware of the small print or face niggling problems in a huge shake-up of the way they report PAYE data to HM Revenue & Customs, now just days away.

Banks’ “computer says no” approach to small businesses is being targeted with an “SME credit database” that the Government believes will help lenders make more informed decisions about prospective borrowers.