Former Tesco Exec Scouler To Join TalkTalk

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor One of the executives who left Tesco in the wake of its £263m profits overstatement is to take on a senior role at TalkTalk, the home communications group. Sky News has learnt that John Scouler, who left his role as...

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Nearly 700,000 On Zero-Hours Contracts

Nearly 700,000 are people are now on zero-hours contracts, new figures show. Figures for the last three months of 2014, showed 697,000 people said they were employed on the controversial contracts in their main job - an increase of 111,000 from the...

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Morrisons Appoints New Boss To Lead Fightback

Supermarket chain Morrisons has announced the appointment of an ex-Tesco staff member as its new chief executive. In a statement to the London Stock Exchange, Britain's fourth biggest grocer said David Potts would be the new CEO. He replaces Dalton...

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Google Bans Porn From Its Blogging Website

Reddit has promised to remove nude photos taken without the subject's consent - while Google is banning porn on its blogging network. The tough stance by the two companies comes in the wake of the iCloud hack which led to the release of celebrities'...

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TSB Lures Customers From High Street Rivals

The newly spun-off TSB bank has seen its pre-tax profit rise by 2.3%, as it lures customers from established high street rivals. As a result, the company said it would consider making acquisitions in the future to help accelerate expansion plans....

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AO World Shares Plunge 46% On Profit Warning

Online white goods retailer AO World has seen its share price drop by almost 50% in early trades, wiping £500m from its market value. The plunge occurred after it released a statement lowering its financial forecast for the full-year ending March...

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Apple Fined $500m For iTunes Patent Infringement

Apple has been told pay $533m (£343m) after a jury in Texas found that iTunes infringes three patents. A jury deliberated for eight hours and found that the world's most-valuable company willfully used Smartflash's patents without permission. Smartflash...

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Huge Fines To Tackle 'Menace' Of Cold Callers

Companies to blame for nuisance calls and texts can be fined up to £500,000 under tough new regulations that come into force soon. Changes to the current law, which has been described as "a licence for spammers and scammers", will make it easier to...

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Lloyds To Adjust Terms Of Chief Exec's Bonus

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor Lloyds Banking Group is preparing to tweak the terms of its chief executive's bonus which could make it dependent on the Government offloading its entire stake in the UK's biggest high street lender. Sky News has learnt...

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HSBC Boss 'Sorry' For Swiss Tax Scandal

The boss of HSBC has apologised in person to MPs over the past behaviour of his bank and thousands of secret Swiss bank accounts it held for clients. Stuart Gulliver told MPs on the Treasury Select Committee that revelations about thousands of secret...

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