vodafone told the bbc the outage had impacted "just over 1%" of its one million broadband customers. business groups has been fired after an investigation into complaints about his conduct at work. tony danker will leave the cbi with immediate effect and be replaced by rain newton—smith. it follows allegations over mr danker�*s conduct involving a female employee. chinese tech giant alibaba has unveiled its rival to chat gpt. the firm hopes to integrate its new artificial intelligence model across the company's business applications soon. alibaba hopes to benefit from the current artificial intelligence frenzy stirred up by chat gpt by enticing more customers towards its cloud computing platform. at a charity auction in dubai, a bidder has smashed the record for the world's most expensive car number plate. the bidder ended up paying 15 million dollars for the license number plate called �*p7�*. the previous record was 14.2 million dollars at an abu dhabi auction in 2008. the money goes towards the one billion meals campaign, which aims to combat global hunger. i'm on twitter, i'm @bb

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vodafone told the bbc the outage had impacted "just over i%" of its one million broadband customers.iled its rival to chat gpt. the firm hopes to integrate its new artificial intelligence model across the company's business applications soon. alibaba hopes to benefit from the current artificial intelligence frenzy stirred up by chat gpt, by enticing more customers towards its cloud computing platform. and at a charity auction in dubai, a bidder has smashed the record for the world's most expensive car number plate. the bidder ended up paying $15 million for the license number plate called p7. the previous record was $14.2 million at an abu dhabi auction in 2008. the money goes towards the one billion meals campaign, which aims to combat global hunger. let's talk about china in more detail. when it comes to inflation there, the latest numberes have come out for the month of march which show consumer prices have slowed to an 18—month low. the consumer price index for march rose by zero—point—seven -- 0.796 —— 0.7% on an annual basis. the main reason behind the slowdown was sluggish foo

keep an eye on the vodafone story. technology and chemicals are down. etc. little bit shaky.ig names over the next few days. you have deutsche's and hsbc. all are coming out with standard chances. let's talk about single days. glencore is out. maybe that tech deal is back on. the microsoft deal is off, but the tech deal may be back on. we will see whether there is momentum there. today, this is really quite a bleak outlook for the chip sector. one of a number of check -- tech companies dragging the index lower, and then persimmons. this is what we saw out of the u.s.. it does seem as if in the u.s. and in the u.k., there are may be a clearing in the house -- housing market, we wonder if you can have a significant recession if we are going to see stabilization and housing, and may be today, there will be a bleak picture, but broadly, i thought it painted a story of stability returning. some signs of stability returning to the u.k. housing market. certainly interesting to see how they respond to this news. painting a similar story. the stock is up by 5%. as i say, we not a lot

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vodafone shares surged in london after talks were revived on a sale deal with iliad.y started with discussions after the owner of iliad bought a state of vodafone in september. dani: coming up, meta surges pose market as sales top estimates. we will discuss what it means for the company and the tech space. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> there is an opportunity to increase ai uses to billions of people. it has been an amazing year of progress. the work happening now will impact every single one of our apps and services. dani: mark zuckerberg on the company's ambitions. who i am sure was wearing a suit and a bow tie for the company earnings also. the meta digital ad sales rebound is buying the company time to pour money into speculative businesses like ai and virtual reality. you heard him commenting on ai ambitions. let's bring in the lead equity analyst at hargreaves lansdowne. it feels like a contradiction when you have zuckerberg talking about cost cuts, yet spending on ai. this seems to be a theme among tech companies, the market is rewarding it, but should they be? sophi

they'll not be enforced through over the weekend the markets would have opened on monday, shares in vodafonein, credit suisse would have gone bankrupt and that would have gone bankrupt and that would have gone bankrupt and that would have had massive implications, damage notjust to switzerland but also the global economy. what members of parliament will be saying is maybe you are right, it was the only option, but this must never happen again. i know that there will be a push for stricter too big to fail banking laws to ensure that big banks can't get into this situation. i think there will also be a push for a closer eye on how senior bankers operate, how much they get paid, and that includes bonuses. those are things that members of parliament will be asking. campaign this deal? no. i think the main impetus now from the swiss parliament is this really, really bad, it should never have happened and must never happen again because now we don't have two big global banks, wejust have now we don't have two big global banks, we just have one and we can't afford to lose that. ukraine says 174,000

even the battery from the mts tower, for sure they removed it and used it, this is the property of vodafone, you can see how they were knocked out from here , they were knocked out with mortars mainly . in general, with like three tridents, they already felt like they were being covered here. well, there were a lot of them here, because this man said that there are many such young people in the store who have not been fired upon. it is clear that they are only just from training. that is, it is not some the officers there are serious. and i think the shrapnel was from a vehicle with a letter drawn on it. it was written behind the wheel of chicheniya. something like that was written. that is, it was probably kadirov soldiers, because i think some of them were not fired upon. they just went, hmm, like massive columns. and those who were already performing some more powerful tasks, they were already trained special forces forces, some special forces, the truth is that they were helped a lot by aviation in the last days , when our military was already knocking them out, their retreat was covere

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the "big four" network companies — 02, ee, vodafone and three — were outperformed in the annual surveyller phone companies could provide better value for money and customer service. a text—message scam targeting parents conned people out of more than a million pounds last year. that's more than 1.2 million dollars. new figures from the bbc reveal more than 1,100 people fell for scammers pretending to be the victim's son or daughter in financial trouble — before asking for money. dan whitworth reports. it might seem like a legitimate plea for help, but it's nothing of the sort. they're texts from scammers that start with, "hi, mum" or "hi, dad" before making a request for money or help, normally accompanied by a distressing story about why the cash is needed quickly. in the last year, more than 1,100 people across england, wales, and northern ireland reported being targeted by these scams. more than £1.1 million was lost to texts targeting mums and more than £170,000 was lost to texts targeting dads — a total of more than 1.3 million. jan was one of the victims. after receiving a messag

we faded that gap a little bit and then finally i want to talk about a new ceo being announced at vodafoneo have potential deals on the way. this stock is up by 4.62%. flutter, we have seen the u.k. government publishing the opening story when it comes to this new gaming bill. you have unilever hitting a 52-week high. you have montclair in the luxury sector. it has been a continuing stream of luxury, we will dig into the details of the close, coming up in a few minutes time. this is bloomberg. ♪ you can't buy great conversations, or excuses to unplug. you can't buy possibilities, and you can't buy moments that matter. but you can invest in them. at t. rowe price we believe your investments should work harder for the future you imagine. and that's where our strategic investing approach can help. t. rowe price, invest with confidence. when people come, they say they've tried lots of diets, nothing's worked t. rowe price, or they've lost the same 10, 20, 50 pounds over and over again. they need a real solution. i've always fought with 5-10 pounds all the time. eating all these different thing

series of sexual misconduct and rape allegations means dozens of the body's members, including bmw, vodafonehone and john lewis, have left with the organisation suspending all its policy and membership activities . earlier, membership activities. earlier, the chancellor, jeremy hunt, said there's no point engaging with the cbi any more and that the government wants to work with the trade body that sticks up for business. now as you've been hearing, sir keir starmer says the comments made by the labour mp diane abbott were anti—semitic . labour mp diane abbott were anti—semitic. in an article for the observer , the former shadow the observer, the former shadow health secretary said a jewish, irish and traveller people experience prejudice but not racism. she's since withdrawn the remarks and apologised used. labour has previously come under fire for anti—semitic remarks made by former party leader jeremy corbyn. sir keir said he was absolutely right to act as swiftly as he did what she wrote yesterday. i swiftly as he did what she wrote yesterday . i utterly condemn and yesterday. i utterly c

dozens of the body's members, though, including bma, vodafone and john lewis , have all left with the lewis, have all left with the organisation's suspending all its policy and membership activities. earlier the chancellor, jeremy hunt, said there is no point engaging with there is no point engaging with the cbi any more and that the government wants to work with a trade body that sticks up for business. now sir keir starmer says the comments made by the labour mp diane abbott were anti—semitic in an article for the observer, the former shadow health secretary had said jewish, irish and traveller people experienced prejudice but not racism. she's since withdrawn the remarks and she's apologised used. labour has previously come under fire for anti—semitic remarks made by former party leader jeremy corbyn. sir keir says it's absolutely right. the party acted as swiftly as it did. what she wrote yesterday. i utterly condemn them _ she wrote yesterday. i utterly condemn them and- she wrote yesterday. i utterly condemn them and i- : i utterly condemn them and i said we would tear— condemn

vodafone.ecause often you will be overpaying in the balance. equally, if you are in those flexible contracts, you will avoid those media contract price hikes. .,, avoid those media contract price hikes. . avoid those media contract price hikes. , ., , hikes. those cost providers recommended _ hikes. those cost providers recommended state - hikes. those cost providers recommended state for- hikes. those cost providers recommended state for the hikes. those cost providers - recommended state for the first time in years. 02 has recently increased them and some bills by more than 17%. these price hikes have been criticised, particularly when customers are feeling the cost of living squeeze. the message from which? is there are better deals to be found for those willing to shop around. ben king, bbc news. the family of stephen lawrence will hold a memorial service in trafalgar square this morning to mark the 30th anniversary of his death. stephen was just eighteen when he killed by a gang in a racis

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