Hospitality companies have warned the Budget could lead to more job cuts By HARRY WISE Updated: 17:01 GMT, 12 December 2024 Britain’s pubs, restaurants and hotels experienced the fastest increase in costs of any business sector last month, after being hit by tax and wage changes in October’s Budget. Tourism and recreation companies also implemented…
Meta confirmed that its services were down on Wednesday just before 2 p.m., with the mass outage affecting most of its products, including Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and Facebook Messenger. We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly…
Six months after Naheed Nenshi replaced her as leader of the Alberta NDP, former premier Rachel Notley announced she will be resigning from her role as MLA for Edmonton Strathcona. Notley revealed her plans in a social media post on Thursday. She said it is with “mixed feelings” that she plans to send a letter…
Parents expecting this month’s Canada Child Benefit (CCB) cheques will have to wait a little while longer because of the ongoing Canada Post strike. Under an agreement between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), some socio-economic cheques, including the Canada Child Benefit, will continue to be delivered despite the national postal…
The Daily Telegraph’s publisher is to hand hundreds of staff a £500 bonus this month as uncertainty over its ownership looks set to stretch into a third calendar year. Sky News has seen an email sent on Thursday by Anna Jones, Telegraph Media Group’s chief executive, in which she told employees that they would receive…
Time Magazine has named Donald Trump as its person of the year for the second time – he previously won the honour after winning the presidential election in 2016. In his letter to readers, Time Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs credited Trump with “marshalling a comeback of historic proportions” and “driving a once-in-a-generation political realignment” that had…
The overwhelming popularity of social media channels like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube has created an entirely new category of celebrity: the social media influencer. Everyday, more personalities are monetizing their social media followings and turning their online presences into full-time jobs. But just how do social media influencers make money? What is an Influencer?…
The latest round in the battle between WordPress owner Automattic and WP Engine was won by the latter with California District Court judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín issuing an injunction to prevent Automattic blocking WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org resources and continuing to interfere with its plugins. “While Defendants characterize WP Engine’s harm as self-imposed because it…
The Westminster “honeytrap” case has been handed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a decision, Sky News understands. This summer a man was arrested in connection with the case, in which at least 12 men in political circles received unsolicited, flirtatious WhatsApp messages from people calling themselves “Charlie” or “Abi”, according to Scotland Yard….
Google announced it’s rolling out the December core algorithm update, which the company expects to complete over the next two weeks. The news comes just a week after Google finished rolling out the November core update. Google’s Announcement In a post on X, Google stated: “The Dec. 2024 core update is rolling out, and we…
