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Boohoo is to pay £25.2m for Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton in a deal set to catapult the fashion brands to an online-only future and result in 2,450 job losses. The online fashion specialist, which has already snapped up the Debenhams name amid the COVID-19 bloodbath for physical retailers, said it was to buy all …

Adobe Stock Given the current business environment, good planning has never been more important, and this certainly includes finance, operations and procurement. We’ll explore the “plan to pay” topic in this post and, later today, in a Spend Matters PRO post for subscribers. Finance should engage the business to translate business planning into …

The news that France’s court of appeal has ruled in favour of the French Competition Authority’s order that Google must negotiate payments with publishers for linking to their content has provoked predictable howls of outrage from the tech industry and their more sympathetic commentators. “This,” observes Benedict Evans, the analyst recently returned from a big …

A federal judge has ordered a former New York City police officer to pay $1 million to a Black woman whose house the white officer broke into during a drunken bachelor party in Nashville, Tennessee before he threatened her family inside. U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson ordered Michael Reynolds on Monday pay the money to …

Friday was the deadline for states to submit their plans to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but they still don’t have the needed federal money to help carry them out, officials said. “As it stands now, we do not have any capability to fund the imminent implementation of the plan,” James Blumenstock, …

With COVID-19 patients now filling about one-third of the intensive care units in the Paris area, France’s health minister threatened on Thursday to close bars and ban family gatherings, if the situation doesn’t improve. Intensive care units in other regions of France are also filling up with virus patients, as more than two months of …

While some reports have said Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s production deal signed this week with Netflix could be worth as much as $150 million, Hollywood insiders scoffed at the purported number and said the ex-royals likely got much less. “Grey’s Anatomy” hitmaker Shonda Rhimes has a reported $150 million deal with Netflix, while “Black-ish” …

Image copyright Reuters The US state of Michigan has agreed to pay a settlement of $600m to victims of the Flint water crisis, US media say. Most of the money will go to children in the city who were exposed to drinking water poisoned with lead, reports add. At least 12 people died after Flint …

She’s racing to beat the midday heat and a government-issued deadline to visit 30 to 40 households before noon. Pawar is one of more than a million Accredited Social Health Activists — or ASHA workers — Indian women who act as a liaison between people and the public health care system in rural areas. It’s …

Gregory Bull/Associated Press Amid uncertainty around the 2020 Minor League Baseball season, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher David Price is reportedly going to pay each of the team’s minor leaguers $1,000. As first reported by baseball journalist Francys Romero and confirmed by ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez, Price will pay around 200 Dodgers minor leaguers not on the …