L’Oréal is considering selling The Body Shop for €1bn, as it has struggled in recent years. The ethical cosmetics chain, founded in Brighton in 1976, by Dame Anita Roddick, bought a decade ago for £652m, now has over 3000 stores in 66 countries. It prides itself in using ethically sourced ingredients to create natural beauty…
Uber and Airbnb have been unleashing a new wave of productivity helped by technology to further human connection. Their critics see them as ruthless and callously sowing disruption and treading on the backs of drivers in the case of Uber or local communities in Airbnb’s case. The Upstarts, the most detailed investigation into the early…
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In the city of Muzaffarpur in Uttar Pradesh with the increase in temperature several children woke up with a loud cry in the morning and had to rush to the hospital as they started having seizures and slipped in to deep coma. According to scientists a mystery illness that killed over 100 children a year…
A US court Jury found Facebook and other defendants unlawfully used a firm’s virtual reality technology and the Dallas district court has ordered Facebook and other defendants to pay $500m (£395m). The Jury found Oculus, which Facebook bought in 2014, used computer code belonging to video game developer Zenimax to launch its own VR headset.…
A 34-carriage freight train direct from China to the UK has, at last, arrived in Barking, East London after 18 days travelling more than 7, 500 miles across seven countries and through the Channel Tunnel. There were two colourful Chinese dragons entertaining the crowds before the trains arrived just after 1 pm. London is the…
British American Tobacco has agreed to acquire its US rival Reynolds American Inc. for £ 40.58bn ($49.4bn) in deal that will create world’s biggest tobacco company. BAT currently the second largest group behind Malboro maker Altria, said it will pay Reynolds’s investors $56.5 per share in cash and shares deal, a 20 per cent…
You are not happy with you energy company, then form your own so you have better control. A Scottish couple after being fed up with the Big Six energy firms attitude to customers that they want customers across Britain to “Crowd-fund” and help start a new, transparent people’s energy company. David Pike and Karin Sode…
Snoop Dogg the musician and gifted entrepreneur, former Facebook president Sean Parker, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, George Soros, all have invested in incredibly profitable legal marijuana ventures. Marijuana is considered to be the largest cash crop in the United States, enjoying a growth of 77 per cent over the last few years with an estimated…