Rachel Reeves will not change the rate of capital gains tax on the sale of holiday homes in the Budget due to concerns about the impact on the property market. Ministers have decided to allow CGT to be charged on the sale of holiday homes and buy-to-let properties amid concerns that increasing it would cost … Read more
Being an effective change agent doesn’t require you to have all the answers about what to do. It does not require you to be a brilliant visionary who is extremely confident that you know the way forward. Even brilliant visionaries make mistakes in what they believe about the future, including Steve Jobs. He was emphatically … Read more
ONE a potential merger between a German bank and an Italian rival would not normally generate much interest beyond the business pages. But these are not normal times. Italian bank UniCredit recently provoked a political backlash in Germany by acquiring a 21% stake in German lender Commerzbank. Even Chancellor Olaf Scholz weighed in, calling the … Read more
Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Gaming to create low double-digit growth: Analyst Bank of America Securities analyst Bradley Sills reiterated a Buy rating on Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) with a price target of $510. Sills noted that Microsoft is well positioned to generate sustained low double-digit growth over the next 3-5 years, led by continued use … Read more
A groundbreaking study suggests that ice on ancient asteroids like Ryugu played a crucial role in providing essential materials for life to early Earth. The research, led by Dr. Matt Genge from Imperial’s Department of Earth Science and Engineering, analyzed samples from the Japanese space agency’s Hayabusa2 mission. Scientists found evidence that freeze-thaw cycles fractured … Read more
Listen: Sara Sharif’s father tells 999 operator he killed daughter Sign up for our latest news emails to get free breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox Sign up for our free newsletters Sara Sharif died as a result of “complications from multiple injuries and neglect,” a pathologist said. The schoolgirl had suffered two … Read more
“Invincible” Season 3 Coming Soon! Despite an over two-year break between seasons 1 and 2, season 3 already has an official release date and trailer just months after the end of season 2. For those unfamiliar, this Prime Video cartoon adaptation is based on the cartoon of the same name created by Robert Kirkman. Prior … Read more
He will visit the area for two days. EnBW is a world leader in clean energy and has secured the rights to build several offshore wind farms along the coast of Scotland. The company is a top four German utility, which has successful activities in the entire energy supply chain from production to retail, with … Read more
We are honored to announce that Microsoft has once again been recognized as a leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), worldwide. This is the sixth year we have received this recognition and we are thrilled to be ranked highest in ability to perform and longest in completeness … Read more
Even Mars rovers like to chase solar eclipses. On September 30, NASA’s Persistence rover turned its left Mastcam-Z camera skyward and photographed a solar eclipse from Marchcapturing the planet’s moon Phobos partial blocking of the sun’s disc. In the series of photographs, one can clearly see the shape of Phobos, which resembles a lumpy potato. … Read more