Author: Nathan Bissitt

Canadian rapper Drake is planning to sell stakes in his whiskey business, raising as much as $30m (£22.2m) to expand the company.The move comes over a year after the first sales of Virginia Black, which Drake started with the founder of DeLeon Tequila.The partners say

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In little more than a century, plastic has gone from being hailed as a scientific wonder to being reviled as an environmental scourge.It was in 1907 that the first modern plastic, bakelite, was invented.It pointed the way to a whole family of products based on

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Walmart plans to start paying its one million US workers at least $11 an hour and give them a one-off cash bonus.The move follows last month’s US tax code overhaul that cut the corporate rate from 35% to a flat 21%.Hourly-paid employees will get the higher rate

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Yachts may be out of reach for most of us, but the market is growing with UK sales up by 3.4% last year. The industry is now worth some £3.1bn. So if you’re rich enough, what do you get for your money? The BBC’s Kim Gittleson takes a look at the biggest

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South Korea is considering a law to ban cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin being traded on local exchanges.Justice Minister Park Sang-ki said virtual currencies were “great concerns” and that the ministry was preparing a bill to ban trading. However, South

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Media playback is unsupported on your device YouTube has cut some business ties with Logan Paul, the hugely popular vlogger who posted a video showing the body of an apparent suicide victim in Japan.Paul’s channels were removed from YouTube’s Google

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The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has warned that a hard Brexit could lead to “a lost decade of lower growth”.He said a no-deal outcome, in which the UK left both the EU customs union and single market, could cost the country half a million jobs and £50bn

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