Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5bn to settle a case brought by the US Federal Trade Commission, in a deal that includes the largest civil penalty ever issued for a violation of the regulator’s rules. The ...

Also in today’s newsletter, Germany’s Merz backs using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, and Taiwan backtracks on chip export curbs to South Africa ...

TikTok US will be valued at $14bn under Donald Trump’s deal to force a split from the social media app’s Chinese parent, vice-president JD Vance said on Thursday. Vance was speaking as the president ...

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Top officials from across political spectrum warn president’s move would jeopardise central bank’s independence ...

State modernisation minister Karsten Wildberger promises to bring about digital age in country clinging to fax machines ...

One option is to lift the restriction for working families, but Labour MPs are pushing for abolition of the contentious policy ...

Microsoft has stopped providing some services to the Israeli military, following an investigation into the company’s products being used to surveil Palestinian civilians.

GDP increased at an annualised rate of 3.8 per cent in the three months to the end of June, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said on Thursday in its third estimate of growth for the second quarter.

Sir Keir Starmer is set on Friday to confirm plans for every adult in the UK to have a digital ID card, as the prime minister looks to toughen measures against irregular immigrants despite concerns ...

Sequoia, NEA and Nvidia invest $50mn in Factory in bet software engineering will be critical application for the tech ...

The first is the sheer cost of coming to the UK. While Trump’s threatened $100,000 H-1B fee has spread panic across Silicon Valley, UK employers who hire skilled workers through the main visa route ...