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...The game is available to play for free, but players can use its in-game currency, V-Bucks, to buy virtual items, from outfits to accessories and weapons, to personalise their characters....
...The V&A in London is also in difficulties over treasures in its recent wonderful exhibition of Fabergé eggs, which ended some weeks ago....
...Reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to let us know. Happy reading!...
...This included its cut from App Store purchases, which came under fire again on Thursday....
...Players of Fortnite, developed by Epic, were able to purchase an in-game currency known as “V-bucks” online, but these credits would not show up when playing on the iPhone....
...The sandwich stores and salad bars of Britain are still tormenting us with coronation chicken, a recipe originally created as a dish for George V’s silver jubilee, and later updated and rebranded “coronation...
...of the store....
...All three are angry with Apple over its restrictions on them in the App Store....
...But sales of the Ariens Ikon XD, featuring 20-inch tyres, a V-twin Kawasaki engine and ergonomic plush seat, have surged in the US during the pandemic....
...The move to issue UnionPay-branded cards in Europe comes seven years after London department store Harrods became one of the early UK retailers to install a UnionPay point-of-sale terminal, prompting a spike...
...Instead of taking cash into a high street store to send money to friends and relatives overseas at an overall cost of about $8 for every $100 transmitted, digital upstarts are being used by increasing numbers...
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...A-fun is partnering with a large Korean conglomerate to roll out 3D avatars in their convenience stores in the coming years....
...Additional reporting by Patrick Jenkins, Martin Arnold and Philip Stafford in London...
...The J Coin would be convertible into yen on a one-to-one basis, operating via a smartphone app and using QR codes to be scanned in stores....
...We literally only buy from stores....
...former Amazon sales executive, said during Tuesday’s call with investors that the company was “committed” to ecommerce, citing several initiatives including a move to allow influencers to launch their own stores...
...According to Monday’s agreement, the fee on in-store purchases will fall to 0.2 per cent of the transaction value for debit cards and 0.3 per cent for credit cards....
...Letter in response to this article: Happy plant-based eating experience may require salt, sugar and flavourings / From Arnold Holtzman, Glen Mills, PA, US...
...The Visa failure affected 2.4m transactions in the UK over a 10-hour period, forcing many stores to stop accepting card payments and prompting consumers in some areas to empty local ATMs....
...‘Everybody’s been looking for the sign’ “It has been quite a week,” said Lise Buyer, who advises companies on their initial public offerings at Class V Group....
...Arnold & Porter has hired John Hagan as a partner for the law firm’s litigation practice in Chicago. He was previously a partner at Reed Smith and before that Kirkland & Ellis....
...Not according to the opposition Labour party, which attacked the move for crystallising a £2.1bn loss for the public purse, writes Martin Arnold....
...In the UK, they visit the V&A museum, Michelin-starred restaurants, Shakespeare’s Globe theatre and Blenheim Palace....
...PayPal has been looking to develop its own in-store payments service, called PayPal Here, but this remains sub-scale and is only available in the US and UK....
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