business
-
Meltdown and Spectre: ‘worst ever’ CPU bugs affect virtually all computersEverything from smartphones and PCs to cloud computing affected by major security flaw found in Intel and other processors – and fix could slow devices
in depth
-
Google faces new discrimination charge: paying female teachers less than menExclusive: former employee alleges that women hired to work as preschool teachers in the company’s childcare center were paid lower salaries than men with fewer qualifications doing same job
-
Logan Paul has behaved despicably. But he’s part of a wider trendThe YouTube star claimed he was trying to ‘raise awareness’ of mental health issues by filming a dead body. It’s time to stop using this meaningless phrase, says Emily Reynolds, who writes regularly about mental health
-
Fertility and canapés: why egg freezing parties are a hot item on Wall StA growing number of women, often working and unmarried, are ready to pay to postpone motherhood and that’s music to the ears of investors in fertility clinics
around the world
-
The 8p banana that showed Bogotá needed more open public spendingSomething was rotten in the Colombian capital’s school food contracts. We faced fierce resistance trying to fix the problem, but we fought to achieve transparency
-
Britain exploring membership of the TPP to boost trade after BrexitDepartment for International Trade believed to be working on proposals to enter the troubled Trans-Pacific Partnership
-
Gaza's health system close to collapse as electricity crisis threatens total blackoutWorld Health Organization warns hospitals could be plunged into darkness by end of February without fresh funding to keep emergency generators running
-
The scammers gaming India’s overcrowded job marketThe long read: As competition for jobs among India’s youth intensifies, the offer of a lucrative career in a call centre can be difficult to turn down – even if the work turns out to be operating a scam
featured topics
-
Millennial financeMillennial financeMillennials set to reap huge rewards of inheritance boomThinktank: younger generation will profit from high value homes owned by baby boomer parents – but not till they’re 60
-
Income inequalityIncome inequalityInequality is under attack - but what should equality really look like?In 2017 inequality was highlighted like never before. Now we need to open our political imaginations to determine what a more equal world really is
-
Live Dow Jones hits 25,000 points for first time after strong jobs report - business live