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...Tim Farron, Liberal Democrat MP and environment spokesperson, on Friday accused the minister of an “appallingly shameful and heartless dereliction of duty” at a time when families were struggling to afford...
...“We are seeing good subscription momentum on PC and cloud,” Spencer said....
...Phil Spencer, chief executive of Microsoft Gaming, insisted the moves were “not a change to our fundamental exclusives strategy” but reflected a desire to expand the audience for certain games that have...
...Spencer said. “That’s as an industry where I think we should be focused.” Cutting prices is a double-edged sword....
...“I hadn’t intended to comment on what I understood to be a private business discussion, but I feel the need to set the record straight because Phil Spencer brought this into the public forum,” Ryan said...
...Ocado has threatened legal action against Marks and Spencer as the two retailers clash over a final payment tied to their online joint venture....
...Ocado is on course for another showdown with investors at its annual meeting this month over a new pay scheme that includes a bonus share award of up to £15mn for boss Tim Steiner....
...“It will be an ongoing question how Brad Smith and Phil Spencer [Microsoft’s gaming chief] read the UK market and regulator so wrong and whether they will be held accountable — it has cost months and hundreds...
...Additional reporting by Tim Bradshaw in London...
...“We want to be in a position to offer Xbox and content from both us and our third-party partners across any screen where somebody would want to play,” said Phil Spencer, chief executive of Microsoft Gaming...
...Fat Face, whose name was inspired by the black mountain ski run in France’s Val d’Isère, La Face, was founded by Jules Leaver and Tim Slade in 1988....
...Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division, said on Twitter that the companies had signed “a binding agreement to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation following the acquisition”....
...In February, it reported a £501mn pre-tax loss for the year, the biggest in its 23 years of trading, while its 50-50 joint venture with Marks and Spencer also slumped to a loss....
...Inside Apple Tim Cook shut down plans to acquire Tesla before cycling through a junkyard’s worth of self-driving designs over the past decade....
...Tim Steiner, the group’s chief executive and co-founder, said interest rate rises, greater mortgage costs and higher wages would continue to put pressure on prices....
...Tutty and Gift make a great double act, as they clamber about Soutra Gilmour’s suitcase-themed set in Tim Jackson’s production....
...They got Octavia Spencer to play Mother Nature quizzing them about what a good job they are doing in going green. Vomit-inducing sanctimony. It was so nauseating I wanted to go out and buy an oil rig....
...Additional reporting by Tim Bradshaw and Richard Waters...
...Ocado runs a grocery delivery service in the UK in partnership with Marks and Spencer, and also sells its technology and systems to other retailers around the world....
...“Microsoft is committed to helping bring more games to more people however they choose to play,” Xbox boss Phil Spencer said in a post on Twitter on Wednesday....
...The group’s 50-50 joint venture with Marks and Spencer turned lossmaking on an Ebitda level....
...Lord Michael Spencer, founder of interdealer broker ICAP and a Tory party donor, said: “The UK should maintain corporation tax at no higher than 20 per cent to put us in the most competitive bracket globally...
...Tim Steiner, Ocado’s chief executive and the chair of the joint venture, said the cost of acquiring new customers was also returning to more normal levels....
...This expansion comes as sales at Ocado’s UK grocery joint venture with Marks and Spencer are expected to fall this year for the first time in the company’s history....
...“Sport fishing for big fish around the world is a very high-value activity,” said Tim Macpherson, of the UK Bluefin Tuna association....
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