Shoppers and retailers set for ‘challenging’ 2024, says BRC

Boohoo opened the site in 2022 but is considering closing it after a BBC Panorama investigation.

Kimmy Garris, who describes herself as a “fat solo traveler,” probably had no idea that her 30-second TikTok video was going to cause a sensation when she recorded herself in September politely asking a Southwest Airlines gate agent if she could avail herself of the airline’s “customer of size” policy. Her TikTok post went viral…

A disgraced former Chinese central banker admitting to making a “huge mistake” after being arrested last year on suspicion of bribery. Fan Yifei, 59, was the highest-ranking official at the People’s Bank of China  when he was arrested under President Xi Jinping’s campaign to weed out the “flies and ants” in the financial, energy and…

Business & FinanceDeals 14 December 2023, 5:30 am 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC) is closing in on a deal with Austria’s OMV (OMVV.VI) to combine two entities in which the companies own stakes to create a chemicals giant, two people with knowledge of the talks said. In July…

Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that claims it’s scraped 3 billion images from the internet to power its face-matching system, has proposed applying its technology to everything from policing to retail to dating, according to a 2020 patent application that became public on Thursday. The patent filing was made in August — three months…

News Corp announced Thursday that veteran communications advisor Arthur Bochner will become chief communications officer and executive vice president, following the retirement later this year of longtime spokesperson Jim Kennedy. Bochner, who has spent the past decade at Disney, will join News Corp — parent of the New York Post, Wall Street Journal and Dow…