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BREAKING Mothercare: Hundreds of jobs at risk as firm confirms it will go into administration
Mothercare has announced plans to put its UK retail business, which has 79 stores, into administration, putting hundreds of jobs at risk. Mothercare’s UK business has been unprofitable for more than a decade, which sparked a mass of closures last year. The Mothercare UK franchise run its stores and website independent of Mothercares in other …
WhatsApp sues Israeli firm, accusing it of hacking activists’ phones | Technology
WhatsApp has launched an unprecedented lawsuit against a cyber weapons firm which it has accused of being behind secret attacks on more than 100 human rights activists, lawyers, journalists, and academics in just two weeks earlier this year. The social media giant is suing the NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance company, saying it is responsible …
Cystic fibrosis drug to be free on NHS in 30 days after US firm bows to pressure
A US drug company has bowed to pressure and agreed to supply a life-changing medicine on the NHS. Vertex was slammed by Jeremy Corbyn in his conference speech for refusing to drop its price for the cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi. The Labour leader vowed to change the way drugs were patented to stop big pharma …
Panama Papers law firm Mossack Fonseca sues Netflix over The Laundromat | World news
The partners of the offshore law firm whose confidential files were exposed in the Panama Papers leak, Mossack Fonseca, have launched defamation action against Netflix over a movie about the scandal that is due to be released on Friday. In a US lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Jurgen Mossack and Ramon Fonseca say The Laundromat, in …
Ukraine Prosecutor General Announces Audit of Cases Including Firm Linked to Hunter Biden
In a press conference on Friday, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Ruslan Riaboshapka reportedly announced his office is undertaking an audit of all cases closed or settled under his predecessor including investigations into the oil and gas company Burisma and the firm’s owner Mykola Zlochevskiy. It appears this is part of a general review of …
Tech firm new initiative to hire, train local women in technology fields : The Standard
Huawei Technologies Kenya CEO Stone HE and senior staff during the launch of the Women in Technology initiative. The firm has pledged to train and hire more women through the initiative. [Standard] Huawei Kenya has embarked on streamlining its hiring policies to boost female participation in top leadership across the firm’s departments. Through a host …
AFRL licenses second technology to local firm > Edwards Air Force Base > News
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFNS) — A year ago, Dr. Larry Brott of the Air Force Research Laboratory, along with his co-inventors, licensed a technology for a pressure-activated marker that allows troops to communicate with written messages in low or no-light conditions, with or without night vision devices. This marker, along with a second …
Edinburgh-based bank technology firm FNZ expands into Australia
Image copyright Getty Images One of Scotland’s leading bank technology firms has made a significant expansion into Australia. FNZ, based in Edinburgh, announced an agreed takeover of GBST, another financial software company. The deal values GBST at £152m – more than twice the average share price in the month to 11 April when it received …
The Best Law Firm In The World (2019)
The world keeps getting more and more interconnected, and law firms that are able to smoothly navigate international waters across dozens of practice areas are extremely valuable. Cross-border legal work is complex, and the firms that do it well deserve recognition as the global powerhouses that they are. Law360 (sub. req.) has announced the latest …
Census 2020: Trump pursues citizenship question without firm plan
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionUS President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House The Trump administration will continue to pursue a way of adding a citizenship question to the census, lawyers said in court filings submitted on Friday. But administration lawyers failed to provide any legal justification for the …
