The Guardian Business Business Strategy·6 Jul 2026·Article·UK
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news England’s victory against Mexico in the World Cup last night was a win for the UK’s high streets too – footfall was up 143.6% year-on-year between midnight and 6am, according to figures from the monitoring company MRI Software (although it worth noting that there was no World Cup match at that time last year). Footfall in market towns was up 175.5%, and in historic towns it was up 159.9%, it found. Jenni Matthews , a retail analyst at MRI, said: For the hospitality sector, this is exactly the kind of result they’ll have been hoping for. At a time when consumers remain selective about where they spend, the World Cup is proving to be a powerful footfall driver, creating a welcome boost for the night-time, and local economy. As Englan
Startup Funding NewsStart Ups·6 Jul 2026·Article·Global
AI Language Learning Startup Lucida Raises GBP 5.3M Seed Round Slator
Personnel TodayStaffing and Recruitment·6 Jul 2026·Article·Global
Nursing regulator drops case against Jennifer Melle, suspended for talking to media about treatment after misgendering trans patient. The post NMC drops case against nurse in pronouns dispute appeared first on Personnel Today .
The Guardian Business Business Strategy·6 Jul 2026·Article·UK
Growth in charge points falls markedly despite surge in number of rapid-charging units Business live – latest updates The UK’s rollout of electric vehicle chargers has slowed amid challenging cost pressures and uncertainty over government sales targets. Charger companies installed 5,100 public charge points in the first half of 2026, pushing the total to 121,171, according to Zapmap, a data company. That was a 10% increase on the same point a year before – well below growth rates above 40% in 2024. Continue reading...
Silicon RepublicStart Ups·6 Jul 2026·Article·Ireland
The KPMG in Ireland finalists are based in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Louth and Monaghan, and offer tech innovations and solutions in a variety of real world fields. Read more: Jentic, Spryt, MenoPal among eight KPMG Global Tech Innovator nominees
Silicon RepublicStart Ups·6 Jul 2026·Article·Ireland
Una Fitzpatrick stated that Ireland’s technology space has to face the stark reality that there are too few women in positions of senior leadership. Read more: More to be done in bridging digital skills gender gap, warns tech director
Silicon RepublicStart Ups·6 Jul 2026·Article·Ireland
The funding lands as Everhaze rolls out Lú, a conversational AI built for PR professionals, across Ireland and the UK from today. Read more: Dublin’s Everhaze secures €450k as PR AI assistant Lú launches in UK
Startup Funding NewsStart Ups·6 Jul 2026·Article·Global
Nuclear Fusion Startup EternaFusion Raises $1.5M Seed Round to Advance Fusion Current-Drive Technology Wowtale
The Guardian Business Business Strategy·6 Jul 2026·Article·UK
Suspicions grow in Lanarkshire that local people have been misled on supposed benefits of the huge development Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’? The promise was that a Scottish community would be transformed by massive investment and empowered to chase “the jobs of the future”. Instead, local people in Lanarkshire fear they may have to sell their properties and lose green belt land because of the errors of a badly planned AI datacentre complex, even as those jobs and investments never arrive. Late last year, representatives of Oakes Energy Services began to knock on doors in Newarthill, a village east of Glasgow. In letters reviewed by the Guardian, they invi
The Guardian Business Business Strategy·6 Jul 2026·Article·UK
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Sky, which is owned by the US media and telecoms giant Comcast , has been in talks since at least last November to buy ITV’s media and entertainment business. The deal will include the ITVX platform as well as its free-to-air channels, but not ITV’s studio operation. All of ITV’s public service commitments will be maintained under the deal. Continue reading...
The Guardian Business Business Strategy·6 Jul 2026·Article·UK
Exclusive: National Housing Federation says ending quotas for developers could cost 32,000 homes over 10 years Half of all affordable housing supply in rural England could be under threat under plans being considered by ministers to relax regulations for private housing developers, according to analysis. The government has proposed ending affordable housing quotas – known as section 106 agreements – for new developments of between 10 and 49 houses in an effort to jumpstart sluggish housebuilding rates. Ministers are due to make a final decision within weeks on whether developers should be allowed to make cash payments to local authorities instead. Continue reading...
The Guardian Business Business Strategy·6 Jul 2026·Article·UK
The firm’s share price has risen 80% under Allison Kirkby’s leadership – but pressure remains for her to deliver further growth If timing is everything, then Allison Kirkby may have judged it perfectly. Since becoming BT’s first female chief executive more than two years ago the company’s share price has climbed 80%, an investor-pleasing turnaround that has seen Kirkby well-rewarded with a pay and bonus package of £5.6m last year , the largest for a boss of the telecoms company in well over a decade. However, there are questions over how much credit Kirkby can take for the apparent revival of the business. Continue reading...
McKinsey InsightsPricing·6 Jul 2026·Article·Global
Chairman and CEO Steve Beard explains how the organization’s multiyear transformation has reshaped its purpose, structure, and culture.
The Guardian Business Business Strategy·5 Jul 2026·Article·UK
Report says current network of buses, trains and stations effectively locks 2.8m people out of workforce Investing in the UK transport network to make it fully accessible to disabled passengers could boost the economy by £176bn by helping millions more people into work, according to a report. Making the economic case for an inclusive transport network, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) said the current system was inaccessible to almost a quarter of the working-age population. Continue reading...
The Guardian Business Business Strategy·5 Jul 2026·Article·UK
Analysis finds services cheaper but country ranks 57th in network performance and 70th for download speeds British holidaymakers watching online videos while they sit on a European beach this summer are likely to be pleasantly surprised: the signal should be better than at home. Mobile coverage in the UK is worse than in any of the 27 EU member countries, and every other member of the G7 group of large economies, according to analysis by consumer group Which? of data from Opensignal. Continue reading...
Irish Sports BusinessBeyond Business·5 Jul 2026·Article·Ireland
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Startup Funding NewsStart Ups·5 Jul 2026·Article·Global
French fry startup raises $10 million Series A Food Business News
The Guardian Business Business Strategy·5 Jul 2026·Article·UK
Agreement in principle with Castlelake follows several rejected offers and means UK’s biggest low-cost carrier will be taken private The airline easyJet has said it intends to accept a £5.5bn takeover offer by the US investment firm Castlelake that would take Britain’s biggest low-cost carrier private. The companies announced an agreement in principle on Sunday evening in a statement, and requested an extension to a deadline to complete the deal formally. The agreement came after weeks of negotiations and several rejected offers. Continue reading...
EntrepreneurStart Ups·5 Jul 2026·Article·US
Every text, hallway chat and vague message may be weakening your leadership. Here's how to rebuild authority through structure.
Staffing Industry AnalystsStaffing and Recruitment·5 Jul 2026·Article·Global
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