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PayPal stock is skyrocketing after Stripe and a private equity firm reportedly made a buyout offer

Shares in PayPal Holdings (Nasdaq: PYPL) are skyrocketing in premarket trading this morning after a report that the legacy digital payments platform has...

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The Business Economics

You haven’t fixed your AI problem

For years, “swivel chair work” was shorthand for a very real problem: employees spinning between applications, copying data from one system to another,...

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A surprising restaurant chain outgrew Starbucks, Chipotle and Dunkin’ last year

America’s fastest-growing restaurant isn’t Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, or Chipotle. It’s a chicken wing chain that’s been opening hundreds of new locations. In a preview...

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Chancellor announces SME funding package

By Anna Jordan on Small Business UK – Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs Chancellor Rachel Reeves revealed an SME...

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Small firms freeze hiring as Iran war drags growth to five-year low

Britain’s businesses have stopped hiring and slipped into “survival mode”, with economic output stuttering to a five-year low in June as the Iran...

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Red card for red tape: 96% of firms say regulation is failing them

Britain’s businesses have shown the country’s regulatory regime a red card, with 96 per cent of respondents to an official government survey saying...

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U.S. launches new strikes on Iran while Tehran mocks Trump’s reversal on charging for Hormuz transits — ‘20% is of course too much. We will be fair’

The U.S. announced a new round of strikes on Iran on Monday, hours after President Donald Trump said Washington is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran...

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McConnell’s absence could jeopardize Republicans’ defense spending agenda as the Iran war escalates

The absence of two key Senate Republicans has complicated the Trump administration’s ambitions to pass budget appropriations and increase defense spending, particularly as...

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$300 a kilo: space cargo costs falling faster than steam ever did

Sending cargo into orbit is getting cheaper faster than shipping freight did during the steamship revolution of the 1800s, and the cost could...

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Festivals get longer licences and red tape cut in £45m music plan

The small businesses behind Britain’s live music industry have been handed a rare piece of good news, as the government’s first long-term music...