Author: Benstirk

[ad_1] Jeremy Hunt has met the boss of Shein in an attempt to persuade the fast fashion retailer to float on the London stock market, as it emerged the company has run into potential problems with a listing in the US.The UK chancellor met Donald Tang, the Shein executive chair, this month to discuss a potential initial public offering (IPO) in London, and the discussions were “productive”, Sky News reported.A Treasury spokesperson said: “We have developed reforms to boost the UK as a destination for IPOs, including making it easier for companies to list more quickly.“The government does not comment…

[ad_1] The Snapdragon X Elite is an incoming ARM-based mobile CPU that’s causing considerable excitement about what it’ll bring to the table in the arena of the best laptops – and the hype just got stoked a bit more by a revelation on the AI front.Qualcomm’s SoC is looking pretty tasty with AI acceleration if a new YouTube video (hat tip to Wccftech) showing off the Snapdragon X Elite is anything to go by. In it, the Snapdragon X Elite is battling head-to-head with Intel’s Core Ultra 7 155H (one of Team Blue’s Meteor Lake CPUs, the second-tier model behind…

[ad_1] This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. As construction industry professionals gear up for 2024, they are faced with a landscape marked by potential challenges, much like the preceding year. Recession concerns, persistent inflation, rising interest rates, critical labor shortages and ongoing supply chain disruptions remain at the forefront of construction industry considerations. There are, however, proactive ways to address these challenges and position your company in the best light going into the new year. Consider the following seven trends and potential solutions. Tight labor supply The construction industry is grappling with a shortage…

[ad_1] Three years after becoming the youngest person to hold an editor title at Vogue, Margaret Zhang is leaving her position as editorial director of Vogue China.The Australian Chinese creative director announced her exit on Instagram on Monday, writing: “As we kick off a transformative Year of the Dragon, I’m excited to announce that I have decided to wrap up with Vogue and jump into the next chapter of my career.”Zhang rose to prominence as a teenage fashion blogger in Sydney. By her early 20s, she had amassed over 1 million followers on Instagram, and was working in New York…

[ad_1] It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around two years after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s fun, but also difficult.What’s more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also keeping it fresh in the form of a variant called the Daily Sequence, which sees you complete four puzzles consecutively, rather than concurrently. But Quordle is tough, so if you already find yourself searching…

[ad_1] This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Insurance commission clawbacks: The phrase alone invokes some unsettling imagery, even if you aren’t well-versed in the concept. Do you envision a bony, skeletal hand emerging from its earthly grave to claw its way back to the surface, or is that just me? While my imagination may be overactive, a commission clawback isn’t all that different from a ghostly hand reaching out from the past to pull back what was once given. In this case, what’s being clawed back is an insurance agent’s or securities broker’s commission. If a…

[ad_1] Twenty seven new bathing sites are being considered for England, but campaigners have said that swimming remains dangerous in many areas because of the pathogens caused by sewage dumping.If all of these sites are granted, it will be the largest ever number of bathing sites in rivers, lakes and coastal areas approved in one year. Activists campaign for bathing water status because it means the government is obliged to test the quality of the water throughout the summer months.Almost all of the new bathing sites – 22 out of the 27 – are in Tory constituencies. Conservatives have recently…

[ad_1] Bonnie and Clyde, Ma Barker, Baby Face Nelson and Willie Sutton robbed banks. When asked by a journalist asked why he did, Sutton famously replied “because that’s where the money is.” If banks’ $3.1 trillion in cash and invested assets draws criminals to steal from banks, the insurance industry’s $10 trillion in assets arguably tempts fraudsters yet more. And it does. Whereas banks’ annual losses from fraud are on the order of $2.7 billion, insurance fraud measures a staggering $308.6 billion annually. The FBI, which prosecutes significant insurance fraud cases, affirms the insurance industry’s massive size “contributes significantly to…

[ad_1] BT has announced that the final station in its 3G network has been switched off, marking the end of EE’s 3G network that has served the UK for more than 20 years.Much of the UK has switched to the much faster provisions of 4G and 5G, with rumors of network providers piloting 6G technology by the end of the decade.In total 18,000 3G sites have been shut down since January, with BT closely monitoring the process to ensure a smooth sundown.Goodnight 3G, you served us wellIn a statement, BT Chief Networks Officer Greg McCall said, “We have now successfully…

Long-term care insurance is not right for everyone. For a small percentage of the population this coverage is an affordable and worthwhile type of insurance. Determining whether or not long-term care insurance is right for you won’t be the only task at hand; looking for scams will also be a concern. As you get older, the need for assistance in your everyday life increases. Whether it is in-home care or residing in a nursing home for a few months you will most likely need some way to pay for these types of services. In order to maintain long-term care insurance…