Zally, Sokin, Ten Percent Club, Aspire: The week's best-read stories BusinessBite: 'The Great London Lie' - Built in Notts launches amid claims city is underfunded PE-backed Causeway makes European acquisition Stop Firing Humans: AI campaign counters Artisan’s viral ‘anti-human’ message Dragons’ Den beauty tech firm raises extra £9.5m UK among first countries to recognise crypto as personal property Tech group Halma seals £230m swoop GM-based Squosh to scale with Green Economy support Sedulo Group celebrates record year with £25m revenues KKR completes £4.7bn acquisition of Spectris Liverpool to be ‘transformed’ as Mayor reveals regeneration plan Engineering group in talks with Versarien administrators Zally CEO’s ‘regret’ over 11 previous business failures Revenue up, profits down as Frasers slams Government Future plc replaces chair as annual profits drop BusinessBite: ICO action on cookies 'boosts personal info control for millions' FTSE 100 firm Smiths Group to sell Detection arm for £2bn Revolut & LSEG become latest to turn to OpenAI FTSE 250 firm Zigup sees share price fly on positive results BGF backs Citrus-Lime with multi-million-pound investment Currensea appoints former Amex & Wise executive as COO Outra, a data firm used by Sky & Zoopla, names new CEO BGF exits tech-enabled fairground firm Fairgame Travel Counsellors expands into North America with Canadian deal LDC leads major funding deal for Gateshead’s Aspire NVM & eComplete back £31m MBO of fragrance business 8 startups funded by PXN’s PraeSeed programme BusinessBite: Spire Healthcare plummets on profit warning FTSE 100 & 250 video report - Auto Trader & Rightmove suffer S&W snaps up Fredward to bolster consulting practice Former IBM CFO among strategic hires at IRIS Major RegTech deal sees ID-Pal swoop for NorthRow Record year at Manchester’s On the Beach Avis Budget to close Zipcar UK operations Warhammer strikes - FTSE 100 & 250: November in review ‘Sanguine about Budget’: Trio of listed investors publish results Finity partners with Hydr as it explores new category BusinessBite: FTSE 100 banks leap after successful stress tests £38m deal for Manchester United partner backed by Rio Ferdinand Reports: Steven Bartlett to launch tech news website Why student entrepreneurship is the best education you will ever receive BusinessCloud's record-breaking year continues Newcastle's BSF Enterprise raises £15m for lab-grown leather Stricken Versarien to appoint administrators Virgin Media fined £23.8m for putting vulnerable customers at risk Listed Leeds spinout in danger of insolvency gets emergency funds BusinessBite: Plus500 biggest climber on FTSE 100 Alvarez & Marsal launch new Public Company Advisory team Microlise, boohoo, Innovate UK, Budget: The week's best-read stories TCS to power Aldi’s cloud & AI transformation Whitespace secures £10m to scale UK-built sovereign AI Eddie Hearn's Matchroom signs deal with Ten Percent Club Founder ponders bid for essensys plc as it issues profit warning Amazing AI's shares suspended from AQSE amid Winnfrith saga Microlise share price crashes after global sales hit BusinessBite: FTSE 100 & 250 remain steady as Raspberry Pi falls JPMorganChase reveals potential £10bn boost for UK economy SportTech servicing HYROX craze sees users double in six months IDHL continues acquisition charge with Vervaunt swoop Yorkshire's Intelligent Servers acquired by Danish IT firm Sky Bet & Paddy Power owner 'very disappointed' by UK Budget boohoo cuts losses but revenue drops amid pivot Revolution Beauty losses almost doubled before founders' return FE fundinfo acquires five-year-old startup from Equisoft What did Rachel Reeves' Budget mean for business & tech? FTSE firm 'in wind-down mode' sees shares dip upon Arqiva news The Northcoders consultancy brand 'changing how tech gets done' UKG swoops for UK startup again with Mo acquisition THG Studios launches corporate away day packages FSP brings headcount to over 450 with acquisition of data & AI firm Pets at Home profit drops as retail revenue takes huge hit Goodwill impairment charge sees ATG swing to $134.2m loss Leadership shakeup at Judges Scientific as founder takes chair role Versarien sale collapses as administration looms Germany World Cup hero joins ElevenLabs exec’s VC fund What did 2025 Autumn Budget mean for UK business & tech? Former Lloyds CEO appointed by Tunstall Healthcare Leeds smart tech firm raises £3m to replace dashboard controls Tom Winnifrith v Amazing AI plc: Bizarre dispute heads towards legal action FinTech PLC eyes US listing after $200m funding line agreed Revenues & profits up at AO World despite ‘headwinds’ BusinessBite live: Profits plunge at identity specialist GBG Revolut share sale values FinTech at huge $75bn Revealing the 2025 FinTech 50 - true finance trailblazers from across the UK Ogury replaces CEO with WPP executive 'Innovate UK scheme is an insolvency accelerator' - Wootzano founder M+C Saatchi cuts 2025 outlook amid US & Australia woes S4 Capital issues stock market warning as revenues fall Microlise Group to cut workforce as global sales hit BusinessBite live: Frasers, HubBox, Truespeed, FTSE risers Curve, Zuto, THG, Sage: The week's best-read stories Multi-year Arsenal deal for Zilch Circle of Trust unveils new platforms & advisory team British Business Bank reveals first partners for £200m fund Monzo founder appointed by Government ahead of Budget PolyModels Hub raises £7m to transform drug development Vyntelligence secures £23m PE injection to fuel US expansion Lindsey Burrow caps glorious night at 2025 Northern Leaders Hg agrees $2.3bn sale of Intelerad to GE HealthCare techUK calls for bolder action to unlock regional tech growth BusinessBite live: Focus Group acquires Chalkline West Ham United become first club to use AI for first team scouting Starling & FinTech North partner to boost ecosystem across North CMC Markets share price rockets following Westpac deal & results Bruntwood SciTech to expand Leeds innovation hub Halma's record-breaking results leads to share price hike OneDome swoop creates £10bn annual mortgage business Nanoco, which won $150m from Samsung, settles lawsuit with LG MHA reports profits & revenue rise in first results since April IPO BusinessBite live: Listed games firm everplay appoints CEO Sage shares fly as £300m plan revealed, but CPO to step down FinTech Dost launches in UK as Octopus leads £6m Series A Moja launches platform to help professionals boost their visibility PXN Group launches ‘to unlock £1bn for Northern tech by 2030’ Financing platform SAPI secures £60m funding Bridgepoint makes majority investment in Zuto Share price rises on The Beauty Tech Group's update WH Smith CEO resigns after Deloitte Review findings revealed Controversy as Lloyds acquires Curve for reported £120m BusinessBite live: £1bn target as NHS selects TCS; Palantir & PwC UK ink AI deal Ex-Revoluters raise £7.6m to make compliance a ‘growth enabler’ Artios raises £87m Series D funding to target cancers via DNA Nanoco shares drop as results revealed, explores sale Leeds Tech Map returns to showcase city’s thriving tech sector Companies House identity verification changes come into force TT Electronics' £287m takeover revised amid shareholder concerns TMT ID secures £30m from BGF in first institutional funding BusinessBite live: Double-digit profit growth at listed Softcat boohoo & Debenhams Group invest in AI ahead of festive season Carbon3 to invest £1bn in sovereign UK AI infrastructure network AuditComply snapped up by Canadian firm Nulogy VC rebrands as Yorkshire AI PLC, appoints Richards UK’s WeShop debuts on Nasdaq ahead of US launch Cordwell to leave role as CEO of Unit M BusinessBite live: Genuit shares dive as B&M, Frasers also down Vote in our RegTech 50 innovation ranking Excitement grows for the 2025 Northern Leaders awards Police and Crime Commissioners axed, saving £100m, as attention turns to AI 3i Group, Oxford Nanopore, Improbable: The week's best-read stories THG boss Moulding reveals major Myprotein & Mars partnership BGF backs Cambridge spinout as Series A reaches £70m BusinessBite live: GMB Union Red Arrows deal to create 4,000 jobs FRP in £6.7m swoop for financial advisor Arc & Co Polarean to quit London Stock Exchange Why are so many people banking on Zopa? Could ‘workslop’ undermine the AI revolution? Chance introduction sparked FinTech launch FTSE 100’s 3i Group plummets as CEO sounds note of caution Tara Askham joins Maple Review to tackle barriers for UK entrepreneurs Unicorn-maker Backed VC closes £75m third fund Zilch to explore acquisitions as it raises £135m ASOS hails refinancing package as new chair set to take reins Is this Europe’s sweariest unicorn boss? US tech giant targets UK growth Red Flag Alert on track for £10m ARR after strategic change Meet the 15-year-old tech star with the world at his feet BusinessBite live: FTSE 100 & 250 tech firms see share prices fall FinTech North returns to Manchester this month Rhinoflux wins KPMG Global Tech Innovator 2025 at Web Summit Purple announces merger with Splash Access Improbable founder to flee to Dubai ahead of ‘entrepreneur tax’ Hydr CEO: 'We're building to scale, not just to survive' Revenues top $4bn at FTSE 100 firm Experian David Savage: How podcasting drives business success Grace Beverley profile: The entrepreneur for our age Rhinoflux wins KPMG Global Tech Innovator 2025 at Web Summit Meet Manchester startup Wisterias - transforming care through AI McCann sign up for St John’s Manchester Oxford Instruments rallies after reporting huge drop in profits 4imprint shares rocket despite ‘volatile macroeconomic conditions’ Meet the man behind Manchester's £1m+ startup GAME FM Manchester scaling businesses arrive at Web Summit on a mission Travel Counsellors CEO: ‘We need to use AI to our advantage’ How a TikToker was the star of 2025 Web Summit launch event BusinessBite Web Summit live: Man City & VTEX 'putting fans first' Reading FC to Score with AI deal M Squared Lasers IP & assets acquired out of administration Boots acquires loss-making MyHealthChecked business North’s mayors demand ‘game-changing investment’ from Budget US firm Carlyle buys Barclay family out of Very Group Permira to take JTC private as £2.7bn deal agreed Revenue & profits rocket at Applied Nutrition BusinessBite live: Ocado & THG share price up, BT down BDO, Sky's ITV deal, TT, Daisy 02: The week's best-read stories Oxford Nanopore sees share price surge after positive update Rightmove shares tumble as FTSE 100 firm lowers profit guidance £2m Leeds incubator to aid region's booming HealthTech sector Sky in talks to buy ITV media business for £1.6bn Listed Leeds spinout in danger of going under this month Telecoms firm rebuked by Peter Jones enjoys six-fold growth BusinessBite live: Winners and losers on FTSE 100 & 250