Royal London is pursuing a takeover of its fellow financial services provider, LV=, in a deal that would create a “mutual champion” with nearly 10m customers across the UK. Sky News has learnt that the two groups are in detailed negotiations about a tie-up. City sources said this weekend that a transaction would bring together
Month: September 2020
The government has said MPs will get to vote on the “rule of six” as it attempts to see off a rebellion by Conservatives who want more scrutiny of coronavirus regulations. Senior Tory Sir Graham Brady told Sky News he would be “pressing on” with his attempt to change the law as “we need debates
The number of global coronavirus deaths could reach two million before a vaccine is found and widely used, the World Health Organisation has warned. It comes as the death toll in the nine months since the coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China, nears one million. Dr Mike Ryan, director of the WHO’s emergencies programme, said the
Can a small American aerospace company get to Venus before NASA returns to our superheated planetary neighbour? That’s what Peter Beck, the CEO of Rocket Lab, is hoping as he sets his sights on launching a low-cost probe in 2023. Over the past decade his company has become very good at putting satellites in to
Tesla is acquiring more land in Austin, Texas for future expansions – potentially a battery factory? After months of going through the process to secure approval from the local government, Tesla announced in July that it selected a site outside of Austin to build its next Gigafactory in the US. Much has been said about the
A hydrogen fuel-cell plane that’s capable of carrying passengers completed its maiden flight this week, in another step forward for low and zero-emission flight. ZeroAvia’s six-seater Piper M-class aircraft — which has been retrofitted with the device that combines hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity — undertook a taxi, take-off, full pattern circuit and landing on
8:44 PM ET You have to give it to the UFC. The promotion has pulled off this 2020 concept of “Fight Island” remarkably well, and I’m not just referring to stringent COVID-19 measures. The UFC’s pay-per-views this year on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, have offered a lot. From the “BMF” champion
September 25th, 2020 by Press Release Up to $5M in Prizes to Support Sustained Presence on the Moon HOUSTON, Texas — HeroX, the social network for innovation and the world’s leading platform for crowdsourced solutions, today launched the prize competition “NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge” on behalf of NASA. In support of the agency’s Artemis program to
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos. Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a stern warning to all employees Friday, pointing them to a new settlement between the company and shareholders who alleged it did not respond appropriately
US President Donald Trump is expected to name Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court later. Reuters news agency said two sources had confirmed Judge Barrett as Mr Trump’s choice following the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last week. Among those reacting to the expected nomination, Kevin Jennings, head of
It’s 10.40pm and a man has just bought some chicken wings in Oldham. The pandemic has brought us to the point where moments later the police and council officials are ticking off the owner of the takeaway for breaking the law. The police officers don’t really want to be curtailing someone’s livelihood, the council certainly
September 25th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan A solar power plant being built in Bordeaux, France, on a former landfill is expected to be the largest “urban” solar PV power plant in Europe. The factory is using solar modules from American solar presenter delivernment is firm First Solar (Nasdaq:FSLR). “In the world of solar PV, there
The search to find the prime minister’s new spokesperson is reaching its final stages, with interviews for the £100,000-a-year role due to conclude in the coming days. Allegra Stratton, the mastermind behind Rishi Sunak’s press operation, remains the favourite, with other contenders including Angus Walker, the media adviser who helped education secretary Gavin Williamson through
Daimler has unveiled an electric bus equipped with a solid-state battery pack — probably becoming the first planned production EV with a solid-state battery. The German automaker has been aggressively electrifying its deep lineup of big vehicles from buses to commercial trucks. This week, Daimler unveiled an update to its eCitaro, the electric version of
Katie Farmer, incoming CEO of BNSF Railway, told CNBC on Friday that her industry has clearly been impacted economically by the coronavirus pandemic, but there’s optimism on the horizon. “We have seen the economy start to pick up relative to rail loadings,” Farmer told “Squawk Box.” While BNSF, owned by Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway, anticipates a rebound,
A pedestrian wearing a protective mask walks past signage at the Google San Francisco office in San Francisco, California, on Monday, July 27, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet has reached a settlement on a shareholder lawsuit that accused the board of allegedly mishandling sexual misconduct by its executives. Execs will
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