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Jeff Bezos to sell up to $4.75bn in Amazon stock over next year

Company’s founder plans to offload up to 25m shares through a trading plan Business live – latest updates Jeff Bezos is preparing to sell up to $4.75bn (£3.6bn) worth of Amazon stock over the next year, according to a regulatory filing made on Friday. The technology company’s executive chair and former chief executive plans to …

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TikTok fined €530m for failing to protect user data from Chinese state

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission also found the video app provided ‘erroneous information’ to its inquiry TikTok has been fined €530m (£452m) by an Irish watchdog over a failure to protect some European user data from being used by the Chinese government. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) regulates TikTok across the European Economic Area (EEA), which …

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Space Invaders on your wrist: the glory years of Casio video game watches

Their tech may have been primitive, but for 80s schoolchildren of a certain kind they had a glamour to equal any modern iPhone Over the last couple of weeks I have been tidying our attic, and while the general aim has been to prevent its contents from collapsing through the ceiling, I have a side-mission. …

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Amazon to report earnings as investors weigh effects of Trump’s tariffs

Tech giant exceeded expectations for past two quarters, but expected to report slowest revenue growth rate since 2022 Amazon will report its first-quarter earnings for the 2025 fiscal year on Thursday after the New York stock exchange closes – results that will be seen in the context of consumer resilience in the face of Donald …

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Microsoft raises Xbox prices globally amid tariff uncertainty

Sony also raised PlayStation 5 price and Nintendo delayed Switch 2 pre-orders as Trump tariffs throw electronics manufacturing into chaos Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will increase Xbox console prices worldwide, citing “market conditions” just days after Sony made a similar move with its PlayStation 5. The tech giant also plans to raise prices …

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Just one in three British families eat together each day, survey finds

Phones dominate dining tables as parents struggle for conversation, research for The Week Junior reveals A quarter of British families no longer talk at dinner, with most bringing their phones to the table and 42% of parents saying they struggle to find a topic of conversation, a survey of 2,000 households shows. It found that …

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Children under six should avoid screen time, French medical experts say

TV, tablets and smartphones ‘hinder and alter brain development’, open letter says Children under the age of six should not be exposed to screens, including television, to avoid permanent damage to their brain development, French medical experts have said. TV, tablets, computers, video games and smartphones have “already had a heavy impact on a young …

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