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• Newport Wafer Fab: Chinese buyout of UK's biggest chip plant to be reviewed

  25-05-2022 19:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK government says it will make a national security assessment of the sale of Newport Wafer Fab.
  
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• Dyson moves beyond vacuum cleaners to home robots

  25-05-2022 18:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The company is setting up a major robotics research centre in the UK.
  
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• Volkswagen to pay out £193m in 'dieselgate' settlement

  25-05-2022 18:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than 90,000 people will get payouts over the installation of emissions cheating devices.
  
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• Marks & Spencer shifts from town centres as online sales grow

  25-05-2022 17:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The retail giant says it is relocating some stores from older buildings with poor access and parking.
  
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• WSO2 Completes $93 Million Series E Growth Funding Round with the Investment from Info Edge

  25-05-2022 15:50
  
  Info Edge, which joins lead investor Goldman Sachs Asset Management in the Series E, provides a strategic contribution to WSO2’s accelerated business expansion across India London, UK and Mumbai, India – 25th May, 2022 – WSO2, the leader in digital transformation technology, today announced that the company has completed its Series E funding round with the addition of RedStart Labs (India), a subsidiary of Info Edge Limited (NSE: NAUKRI). The move brings the total growth...Sour
  
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• Speedcast Adds 13 Gbps of New Capacity to Its Unified Global Platform at Record-Setting Pace to Meet Customer Growth Surge

  25-05-2022 15:22
  
  Strategic network expansion supporting European and Alaskan cruise sectors and global energy market demand Speedcast made substantial investments in network management technologies, with future-ready, software-defined services that helped make the capacity acceleration possible Major increase to the company’s total network capacity from 2020 pre-pandemic levels was completed at rapid pace over a five-week period Houston, Texas — May 25, 2022 — Speedcast announced today that in
  
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• Pfizer will not sell drugs for profit in poor nations

  25-05-2022 14:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US pharmaceutical firm Pfizer said it would sell its patented drugs at cost to 45 low-income countries.
  
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• Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says back Ukraine despite economic pain

  25-05-2022 14:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former heavyweight champions visit World Economic Forum in Davos to urge support for Ukraine.
  
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• Energy firm SSE announces £1.5bn operating profit

  25-05-2022 12:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Perth-based firm will invest more than £15bn in Scotland's energy infrastructure this decade.
  
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• UK labour shortage: 'It used to be easy to get fruit pickers'

  25-05-2022 11:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Brexit and the pandemic are blamed for a lack of seasonal workers in the food and farming sector.
  
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• Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces across EMEA announced

  25-05-2022 10:15
  
  Announced at an exclusive Gala Dinner at The Kia Oval in London Top 50 include: BBC Studios, Blood Cancer UK, BUPA, NHS, Philip Morris International, Places for People and overall winner Takeda London – May 25, 2022. Last night The Inspiring Workplaces Group announced its first ever Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces list in EMEA. North America will be announced on June 22, 2022. In its eighth year and to reflect an evolving workplace landscape, IW...Source: RealWire
  
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• OpenRoaming Surpasses 1 Million Global Hotspots as WBA Launches OpenRoaming Release 3

  25-05-2022 10:08
  
  Consumers & Businesses Benefitting From Automatic, Secure, Private & Carrier-Grade Wi-Fi Across Offices, University Campuses, Arenas, Airports, Hospitals and More London, UK, May 25th, 2022: The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced that the number of OpenRoaming™ hotspots has passed 1 million worldwide. This milestone is the latest example of WBA OpenRoaming’s success in providing Wi-Fi users seamless and automatic network access, enterprise-grade security and &m
  
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• Kong Inc. Builds Foundation for EMEA Expansion With New London Office

  25-05-2022 10:03
  
  Leading API platform provider opens UK office to meet continued growth as businesses modernise their technology stacks London, May 25, 2022 – Kong Inc., the cloud connectivity company, today announced it has opened a new London office at 1 Poultry as part of its rapid expansion in the UK and Europe. Kong opened the new location after seeing record growth in the UK, with a current headcount of more than 55 employees in the UK...Source: RealWire
  
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• Canapii bags three awards at Eventex 2022

  25-05-2022 10:00
  
  Canapii is proud to announce it is amongst the Eventex Awards 2022 winners - the 12th global awards for events and experience marketing. As a leading provider of digital event tools and solutions, Canapii was awarded with two Gold awards for the best Virtual Event Platform as well as Virtual Experience Solution, and achieved Silver within the Event Technology category. “The industry faced some unprecedented challenges over the last few months, but here is another...Source: RealWire
  
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• Shell consultant quits and accuses firm of 'extreme harms'

  25-05-2022 07:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Caroline Dennett's post on the professional networking platform LinkedIn has more than 10,000 likes.
  
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• Cost of living: Government plan to help households could come within days

  25-05-2022 02:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Measures could be announced as soon as Thursday after growing pressure on Downing Street, the BBC learns.
  
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• 'I found my dream job in retirement - marrying people'

  25-05-2022 01:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Former teacher Amanda Wheal explains how she reinvented herself as a wedding celebrant.
  
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• 'I change how I look and talk to fit in at work'

  25-05-2022 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two-thirds of women of colour in UK workplaces say they change themselves to fit in, a report says.
  
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• US closes loophole for Russian debt payments

  25-05-2022 00:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The move by the US Treasury Department could push Russia closer to default.
  
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