400,000 VW cars in the UK need fuel injectors fixing
Around 400,000 Volkswagen vehicles in the UK require fuel injectors fixing, VW's UK boss Paul Willis said.
He told a committee of MPs that the recalls...
Dell to buy EMC for $67 billion in record tech deal
Dell Inc., an American privately owned multinational computer technology company, announced it has agreed to purchase EMC Corp, a US multinational data storage company...
Digital piece of rat brain reconstructed in a super computer by scientists
The best way to find out how something works is to take it apart and then try to put it all back together again....
Facebook paid £4,327 UK tax, vs £5,392.80 per British employee
Social network multinational giant Facebook paid only £4,327 ($6,642) in corporation tax last year, according to its latest Companies House filing in the UK.
While...
Angus Deaton awarded Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2015
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2015 - i.e....
Private sector pay growing at 15-year high, UK
Private sector pay in the UK has grown this year at its fastest rate since the early 2000s, i.e. a fifteen-year high, according to...
Climate change denial may become illegal
Climate change denial may become illegal if the courts have their way, according to newspaper reports that a group of top judges have got...
Tesco launches price-matching scheme amid price war
Tesco, the UK’s largest supermarket chain, is launching a price-matching scheme called Brand Guarantee that will give consumers instant price cuts on branded goods.
The...
Canada adds 12,000 jobs to economy, but unemployment rate rises
Although the Canadian economy added 12,000 jobs (or +0.1%), as more people entered the labor force, its unemployment rate increased by 0.1 of a...
Ineos acquires major share of North Sea gas fields for $750 million
Ineos, the Swiss chemicals giant that controls Grangemouth, has bought a major share of North Sea gas fields from DEA Group for $750 million.
A...