Big tech now encourages us to monitor everything from our heart rate to our glucose levels via smartphones and watches. How much privacy have we lost to the promise of self improvement – and is it time to stop?First we counted our steps, then our heart…
Barclays’ error has trashed our credit ratings
The bank falsely claims our mortgage repayments are late, and can’t seem to rectify the mistakeWe have a joint mortgage with Barclays but have just discovered that for the last 11 months the bank has been wrongly recording that we paid late. This is co…
Eight Roads launches its fourth fund: $450M aimed at European/Israeli scale-ups
European VC Eight Roads is launching its fourth fund of $450 million for European and Israeli tech companies , aiming for another 15-20 across a broad range of consumer, software-as-a-service, fintech and healthtech areas. Cheque sizes wil range from around $5 million to $50 million per company, and as such, it tends to play more […]
Zuckerberg Loses $6 Billion In Hours As Facebook Plunges
Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by more than $6 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook’s flagship products offline. Bloomber…
Customers of collapsed UK energy suppliers to be moved to E.ON
Ofgem announcement comes as rising gas and electricity prices continue to cause turmoil in sectorMore than 230,000 customers from three collapsed energy suppliers will move to E.ON under plans agreed by the industry watchdog, as soaring wholesale gas a…
The government promised to clamp down on shell companies. It has failed to do so | Oliver Bullough
These schemes are an invitation to dodge taxes and accept bribes. And as the Pandora papers show, they’re thrivingIf it feels as if the secrets revealed by the Pandora papers – the biggest ever leak of offshore data – are familiar, that’s because they …
The lesson of the fuel crisis? Hell hath no fury like a lorry driver scorned | Zoe Williams
Whether you consider the petrol blockades of 2000 or this year’s anger over shortages, it’s clear that farmers and hauliers are genius protestersI remember the last petrol crisis, in 2000, although when I say “remember” I mean I was there – I have very…
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Money mules: how young people are lured into laundering cash
Criminals are using students and others to unwittingly move funds through their bank accountsReaders’ £1m losses highlight scale of the UK’s fraud crisisThe job advert seemed timely. It offered between £500-£1,000 a week to work from home as an agent f…
New Zealand Might Launch Its Own Digital Currency
“New Zealand’s central bank is exploring the possibility of issuing a digital currency, saying the benefits it would bring include its potential use as a monetary policy tool,” reports Bloomberg. The central bank cites “the declining use, acceptance an…