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When Life at Sea Cruises abruptly cancelled a heavily promoted three-year trip around the world a few weeks ago, would-be passengers were naturally let down. But some were more disappointed than others. Keri Witman, founder and president of a digital marketing agency in Cincinnati called Clever Lucy, had made big life changes to join the […]
The former site of Britishvolt, a failed battery startup in northeast England, has been acquired by US private equity firm Blackstone Group for £110 million. Blackstone intends to transform the 95-hectare site near Cambois, Northumberland, into one of Europe’s largest data centres, capitalising on its connectivity to renewable energy sources. Initially heralded in 2019 for […]
Online retail sales have contracted at the sharpest pace on record this month, dragged lower by people cutting back on their spending because of higher interest rates and an uncertain economic outlook. Monthly internet sales dropped to a weighted balance of -78 per cent in the year to October, the biggest decline since 2009 and […]