Amazon UK arm pays £3.8m more corporation tax despite £1.9bn sales rise
Company says UK business as a whole paid out £492m in ‘direct taxes’ in 2020 – up from £293m in previous year Read more
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Company says UK business as a whole paid out £492m in ‘direct taxes’ in 2020 – up from £293m in previous year Read more
Angry protests, technological glitches and a plummet in value marked the first day of El Salvador adopting Bitcoin as legal tender. Read more
The pay gap between men and women in academic science is bigger than it is in industry, according to a new analysis of federal survey data. What might it take to close that gap? Read more
Eight US states will accept driver's licences and other state IDs stored on an iPhone, Apple has announced. Read more
A British collector says he feels "burned" after spending $336,000 (£244,000) on a fake Banksy NFT advertised through the artist's official website. Read more
A 12-year-old boy from London has made about £290,000 during the school holidays, after creating a series of pixelated artworks called Weird Whales and selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Read more
Taxi driver Chris is obsessively checking his phone for updates. "I'm set to lose almost 2,500 euros (£2,100) worth of cryptocurrency coins," he says. Read more
PayPal customers in the UK will now be able to use the platform to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency, with investments starting at £1. Read more
We would go into villages and enrol people into this biometric data system," US Marine Special Operations Command veteran Peter Kiernan recalls. Read more
Mastercard is to stop issuing cards with a magnetic strip. Read more