Hotel adverts banned by watchdog over misleadingly cheap rooms
Archie MitchellBusiness reporterGetty ImagesAdverts by four of Britain's biggest hotel and travel firms have been banned for stating misleading minimum prices for rooms.The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld complaints against…
Pinkfong: How the viral Baby Shark video created a $400m business
Baby Shark: How a 90-second clip created a $400m businessOsmond ChiaBusiness reporterGetty ImagesWhen Kim Min-seok gave the go-ahead in June 2016 to publish a 90-second clip of a children's song,…
HP seeking $1.7bn from Mike Lynch’s estate
Hewlett Packard (HP) is seeking $1.7bn (£1.3bn) from the estate of Mike Lynch - who died last year when his yacht sank - over HP's acquisition of his firm Autonomy,…
Meta does not have social media monopoly, judge rules
Lily JamaliNorth America Technology Correspondent, San FranciscoA US district judge in Washington has ruled that Facebook-parent Meta Platforms did not violate antitrust laws with its acquisitions of photo-sharing app Instagram…
Don’t blindly trust what AI tells you, Google boss tells BBC
Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar PichaiFaisal Islam,economics editor, Rachel Clun,business reporter and Liv McMahon,Technology reporterGetty ImagesPeople should not "blindly trust" everything AI tools tell them,…
Thames Water rescue plan attacked by excluded bidders
Simon JackBusiness editorReutersA rescue proposal by lenders to Thames Water has been criticised by other potential bidders, frustrated to have been frozen out of talks on the future of the…
Cloudflare apologises for outage which took down X and ChatGPT
Liv McMahonTechnology reporterA number of high-profile websites, including X and ChatGPT, went down for many on Tuesday, due to problems affecting major internet infrastructure firm, Cloudflare.Thousands of users began reporting…