Today's business and finance round up 11th May 2022
British Gas owner raises expectations amid rising energy prices
11th May 2022
Bite-sized business news from the UK and beyond
Good morning Lord Alan Sugar vs PwC, probably not a row anyone would have predicted but welcome to 2022. The Big4 accountancy giant has hit back at comments by the Apprentice star after he called its staff "lazy gits" for being able to take Friday afternoons off over summer. Writing on LinkedIn, a senior executive reward manager at PwC said his view was incorrect and "at best childish and misunderstood".
Today's stories
- British Gas owner raises expectations amid rising energy prices
- Payment firm becomes UK’s latest tech unicorn
ENERGY
British Gas owner raises expectations amid rising energy prices
Other stories to keep you in the loop
- The Queen’s speech 2022: what was in it and what it means
- Boris Johnson hints at cost of living announcement
- Ticket-holder scoops £184m EuroMillions jackpot to become UK’s biggest ever winner
- Elon Musk would reverse Donald Trump's Twitter ban
- Tinder owner sues Google for anticompetitive app store behaviour
- Amazon Fresh to open first UK store outside London
- Peloton shares plunge 20% as losses widen and sales guidance cut
- Beauty Bay hires bankers to review options after IPO stalls
- Sony's profit surges on healthy film, game and music growth
- Pfizer to spend $11.6bn on migraine treatment maker Biohaven
TECH
Payment firm becomes UK’s latest tech unicorn
Stat of the day
Apple announced that it will discontinue the iPod, 21 years after it was released. The iPod was the first MP3 player that could hold 1,000 songs and had a 10-hour battery life
Interesting links from around the web
- What to say instead of “oh, sorry” at work
- The pros and cons of buying supermarket own-brand food
- How remote work could kill the sick day
