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The HMRC Salesforce contract, worth up to £2bn over 15 years, will move legacy tax systems onto one platform with AI tools to triage taxpayer queries. Salesforce has been chosen by HM Revenue & Customs to overhaul how the tax authority manages its dealings with taxpayers, under a 15-year agreementContinue Reading
ASML, Europe’s most valuable company, said yesterday that its planned production capacity for both 2027 and 2028 will not fully meet customer demand for its chipmaking machines, as orders linked to artificial intelligence investment continue to rise. The Dutch group, the only supplier of the machines used to make theContinue Reading
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Boris Diakonov is co-founder and co-CEO of ANNA Money, the business account and tax admin app for UK small businesses that he runs with his long-time collaborator Eduard Panteleev. The company says more than 100,000 business owners use it, and on 23 September 2026 it began offering revenue-based funding throughContinue Reading
James Taylor is the founder and CEO of Particular Audience, an AI-native retail media and personalisation platform that combines site search, product recommendations and sponsored advertising for retailers, with clients that the company says have included Hamleys, Petbarn and Target. On 1 October 2026 the business launched Trade Media, aContinue Reading
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Almost half a million people are set to receive a pay rise thanks to increases in the voluntary Real Living Wage announced today. Rates willContinue Reading
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Over more than 30 years, he has owned and operated brands including Pizza Hut in Quebec, the Cultures restaurant chain, Salisbury House, and the Starbucks Coffee license for Eastern Canada, and he held the development rights for P.F. Chang’s in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada. For the past decade, hisContinue Reading
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