UKs £8bn research fund faces hard decisions as it pauses new grants

Insurance and technology company HCI Group (NYSE:HCI) reported Q2 CY2025 results exceeding the market’s revenue expectations , with sales up 7.6% year on year to $221.9 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $5.18 per share was 15% above analysts’ consensus estimates. Is now the time to buy HCI? Find out in our full research report (it’s…

“We must protect effective competition in this vibrant field, which means we cannot allow dominant tech companies to illegally leverage their dominance to give themselves an unfair advantage,” said Teresa Ribera, the European Commission’s competition chief.

Besides a wealth of Fortnite skins based on Disney IP, it hasn’t really been clear what the entertainment company has gotten in return for its $1.5 billion investment in Epic from 2024. That could change this November, Bloomberg reports, when Epic releases a Disney-themed extraction shooter. The game is one of three Disney projects the…

Mark Poynting,Climate and science reporterand Jonah Fisher,Environment correspondent PA Media The number of monitored bathing sites in England meeting minimum standards for water quality has risen slightly since last year, according to new figures from the Environment Agency. Out of the 449 sites regularly tested this summer, 93% met minimum standards for levels of bacteria…