Image copyright Getty Images Image caption One in eight homes had download speeds below 5Mbps, according to uSwitch A village street in Bamfurlong, Gloucestershire, has been named as the slowest for broadband internet, according to an annual survey. The study said homes on Greenmeadows Park averaged just 0.14 megabits per second (Mbps). The fastest spot, …
Image caption The residents of Ligsalz8 believe they have found the answer to the expensive cost of renting in Munich Despairing of rising prices, some Germans are taking matters into their own hands to secure long-term, cheap, and stable rents. Rents in Munich’s trendy Westend district have soared in recent years. The former working-class neighbourhood, …
Image copyright Reuters The chief financial officer of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has been granted bail by a Canadian court. Meng Wanzhou was arrested on 1 December and could be extradited to the US to face fraud charges linked to the alleged violation of sanctions on Iran. A judge in Vancouver set bail at C$10m …
Image copyright Reuters The government spent almost £100,000 on Facebook adverts promoting Theresa May’s Brexit deal before calling off a Commons vote on it, figures released by the US social media giant reveal. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn branded it a “waste of public money” in the House of Commons on Tuesday. The overall spend on …
Image copyright EPA Image caption Bruno Le Maire (R) insisted France aimed to meet its European Union budget commitments Measures to defuse France’s yellow-vest protests will cost €10bn (£9bn; $11bn), says Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire. That money will be offset by cuts in other government spending, he says. Mr Le Maire, speaking a day …
Image copyright AFP/Getty Image caption US President Donald Trump says he has a good relationship with President Xi Jinping China has reportedly proposed cutting tariffs on US-made cars to 15%, the same tax levied on car imports from other countries. Bloomberg reported that China’s cabinet will review the plans, which would undo the 40% import …
Image copyright Getty Images Sterling fell against the dollar to a new 20-month low on Tuesday. The decline followed a Sky News report colleagues of Theresa May believed they had sufficient numbers to trigger a no-confidence vote in her leadership. Sky’s deputy political editor Beth Rigby tweeted that Conservative MPs were “pretty confident” they had …
Image copyright Stefano Guidi/Getty Image caption Bentley Motors says it has been selling clothing for more than 30 years without being confused for any other brand A business has launched a legal claim against Bentley Motors over the ownership of a clothing trademark. Brandlogic, owner of Manchester-based Bentley 1962 clothing, is seeking an injunction to …
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Merchants bribed Amazon workers who looked at internal logs of what sold well, the WSJ reports Amazon has sacked workers it believes had been misusing internal data on high-selling products, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports. Amazon reportedly believed the staff, in India, China and the US, had abused their …
Image caption Google collects “mountains” of data about users, said US politicians Google chief Sundar Pichai has faced accusations of political bias from US politicians. Mr Pichai was being quizzed by members of the House Judiciary Committee about the way his tech firm runs it business. Google was accused of having “programmed” bias against conservative …