By AFP Translated by Nicola Mira Published May 16, 2025 French luxury footwear brand Clergerie went into liquidation in early April and has now been bought by Spanish company Petrel 92 SL. But the fate of its 50 employees remains uncertain, to their great dismay, an employee representative told AFP on Wednesday. Sandals by Clergerie…
UK consumers spent £26.2 billion online in Q1 and £8.8 billion in March alone, the latter figure being a 3.5% increase year on year that included a spending boom for summer dresses. Photo: & Other Stories That’s according to data from Adobe Analytics, which said that high temperatures and low prices fuelled the sales growth….
In a second day on the stand of a landmark antitrust trial, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, said he bought Instagram and WhatsApp because it was hard to build new apps and evaded questions about whether he was trying to snuff out competitive threats to his company. “Building a new app is hard,”…
In 2012, when Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg cut a $1 billion check to buy the photo-sharing app Instagram, most people thought he had lost his marbles. “A billion dollars of money?” joked Jon Stewart, then the host of The Daily Show. “For a thing that kind of ruins your pictures?” Mr. Stewart called the…