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Alibaba shares have slumped by more than 10% in Hong Kong trade after the Chinese online retail giant warned of a slowdown in consumer spending. The company forecast that its annual revenue would grow at the slowest pace since its Read more
A group of US states is investigating how Instagram targets children, despite it posing potential risks to them. The group – made up of both Democrat and Republican states – is investigating Instagram and Facebook’s parent company Meta to determine Read more
“It’s like a crippling depression where you can’t get up. My anxiety is really bad, some days I can’t leave the house.” Sophie Grayling, 28, bought a two-bed flat in Chelmsford, Essex just weeks after her son Reuben was born Read more
Facebook has written to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), demanding that it stop setting up fake profiles to conduct surveillance on users. This comes after the Guardian revealed that the US police department had been working with a tech Read more
CVS, one of the largest pharmacy chains in the US, is planning to close 900 shops over the next three years. That represents nearly a tenth of its outlets. Its remaining stores, which sell a wide range of consumer goods Read more
In terms of “levelling up” the left-behind bits of Britain, rail is a test case of what that means and whether it’s serious. With some give and some take, one of the more generous assessments is that UK ministers’ “integrated Read more
The owners of an airport are to operate under a new trading name, saying they are “not just about planes in the sky”. London Luton Airport Ltd has become Luton Rising to avoid confusion with London Luton Airport Operations Ltd, Read more