Image copyright Reuters General Motors plans to halt production at five factories in North America and cut thousands of jobs. The US carmaker has also announced it will close three plants outside North America by the end of 2019. The moves follow rising costs and slowing car sales and come as the US carmaker focuses …
Image copyright Getty Images Shoppers are increasingly using their credit cards for day-to-day spending rather than one-off purchases, the banks’ trade body has said. The greater protection offered when buying bigger purchases and the temptation of loyalty points has led to their increased use, UK Finance said. The body said credit card spending saw a …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Faster speeds can often by accessed by using mobile data rather than relying on wi-fi via a fixed line Download speeds across mobile networks are now faster than wi-fi in many countries, research suggests. Speed tests in 80 countries revealed wi-fi was left lagging in 33 nations, according to …
Image copyright Bank of England The Bank of England has released a list of scientists who have been nominated to feature on the new £50 note. On the list are computing pioneers Alan Turing and Ada Lovelace, telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell and astronomer Patrick Moore. The Bank received 174,112 nominations, of which 114,000 met …
Image copyright AFP Image caption Best of friends? Italian PM Giuseppe Conte discussed the budget standoff with the head of the European Commission Italy looks set to defuse a row with the EU after weeks of publicly defying officials in Brussels over its high-spending budget plans. Italy had refused to budge on its plans to …
Image copyright ViewApart Image caption Food is helping boost employment in pubs and is pulling in the customers Pubs are employing more people than 10 years ago, despite almost a quarter of them having closed over the same period, official figures show. According to research by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this could be …
Image copyright Reuters Carlos Ghosn has been sacked as chairman of Mitsubishi Motors after his arrest in Japan over misconduct claims. It follows a similar move by Nissan last week amid claims he falsely understated his salary and used company money for personal gain. Mr Ghosn, who headed an alliance of Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi, …
Image copyright Facebook Image caption At least 26 commercial adverts – like this one for a line of hats – have been spotted in Facebook’s library for political ads Dozens of adverts for hats, jewellery, clothing and other things with no apparent political message whatsoever have been added to Facebook’s new library of UK political …
Image copyright Inkvite If you see a writer in a movie, most likely she (or he) will be tapping on a laptop. But many young writers are doing it on mobile phones, and sometimes in teams. Daniel, who uses the pen name LisVender, begins the story, which his writing team decides to call A Small …