LONDON — Google was slammed Friday by U.K. regulators who say it’s taking advantage of its dominance in digital advertising to thwart competition in Britain, ratcheting up pressure that the tech giant is facing on both sides of the Atlantic over its “ad tech” business practices. Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority said that the U.S....
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Atlantic City’s top casino underpaid its online gambling taxes by $1.1M, regulators say
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — New Jersey gambling regulators say Atlantic City’s top-performing casino, the Borgata, underpaid some of its internet gambling taxes twice by taking almost $15 million more in credits than it was entitled to. That led the casino to pay $1.1 million less in taxes than it should have. The state Division of...
Great Britain para archer Jodie Grinham balances competition, motherhood and pregnancy
PARIS — Great Britain’s Jodie Grinham returned to the Paralympic stage Thursday for the first time since Rio 2016, this time seven months pregnant. Grinham wrapped up her first competition this morning in the women’s individual compound open. She finished fourth and scored a personal best of 693. Later in the evening she and Nathan...
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch was trying to bounce back from HP fraud case before being lost at sea
Tech tycoon Mike Lynch, one of six people missing from a sunken yacht off Sicily, had been trying to move past a Silicon Valley debacle that had tarnished his legacy as an icon of British ingenuity. Lynch, 59, struck gold when he sold Autonomy, a software maker he founded in 1996, to Hewlett-Packard for $11...
British tech magnate Mike Lynch among those missing after luxury superyacht sinks off Sicily
ROME — British tech magnate Mike Lynch and five other people were missing after their luxury superyacht sank during a freak storm off Sicily early Monday, Italy’s civil protection and authorities said. Lynch’s wife and 14 other people survived. Lynch, who was acquitted in June in a big U.S. fraud trial, was among six people...
Online misinformation fueled tensions over the stabbing attack in Britain that killed 3 children
LONDON — Within hours of a stabbing attack in northwest England that killed three young girls and wounded several more children, a false name of a supposed suspect was circulating on social media. Hours after that, violent protesters were clashing with police outside a nearby mosque — the first of several violent protests in across...
China makes it 2-for-2 in Olympic diving, leaving Britain’s Tom Daley with a silver
SAINT-DENIS, France — With Tom Daley out of the way, China is another step closer to an unprecedented sweep at the Olympic diving pool. Lian Junjie and Yang Hao breezed to victory in the synchronized 10-meter platform Monday to give the Big Red Machine its second straight gold medal of the Paris Games. The three-time...
Man sentenced to life over plot to kidnap, rape and murder UK TV personality Holly Willoughby
LONDON — A man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for plotting to kidnap, rape and murder Holly Willoughby, one of Britain’s most high-profile television personalities. At the sentencing hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court, around 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of London, Judge Edward Murray told Gavin Plumb, 37, that he would have to...
Man suspected of killing family of BBC radio commentator has been found, police say
LONDON — British police said they found Wednesday the man suspected of killing three women, the wife and daughters of a well-known BBC radio commentator, near London in a brutal crossbow attack. In a statement, Hertfordshire Police said 26-year-old Kyle Clifford was found in the Enfield area of north London, near his home, and that...
Britain’s top players at Wimbledon stick to tennis on UK election day
LONDON — Some of Britain’s top tennis players are avoiding election talk like double-faults at Wimbledon. Polls opened Thursday morning in the U.K.’s first national election in almost five years, but Britain’s rising stars are sticking to the tennis at the All England Club. Jack Draper says he has no interest in politics. Katie Boulter...
British tech magnate Mike Lynch acquitted of fraud charges in $11 billion deal with Hewlett Packard
SAN FRANCISCO — Mike Lynch, once hailed as Britain’s king of technology, has been cleared of charges alleging he orchestrated a fraud and conspiracy leading up to an $11 billion deal that turned into a costly albatross for Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard. The not-guilty verdicts reached Thursday by a federal court jury in San...
AI could eliminate nearly 8 million jobs in UK, study shows
Artificial intelligence could eliminate up to nearly 8 million jobs in the United Kingdom, according to a new study, which cautions that women and early-career employees are most at risk of being put out of work. Government policy, however, could allow the U.K. to avert job losses and harness AI for a breakneck economic surge,...
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