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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Amazon, EY, Entain, smart meters

(Sharecast News) - Amazon has been accused of being "no friend of the small business" after a report discovered evidence that the online marketplace has ramped up fees and advertising costs for sellers. It found that between 2017 and 2022 Amazon had tripled the amount it earned from fees for independent sellers in Europe, including for listings, deliveries and digital support. That growth far outstripped the rise in sales, which doubled over the same period. - Guardian Woking council plans to sever ties with the Northern Irish developer behind a skyscraper venture that helped tip the tiny Surrey local authority into effective bankruptcy. Amid ballooning costs and delays, a dramatic plunge in the value of the council's Victoria Square development - which is 52% owned by Moyallen, a business from Dungannon, County Tyrone - is at the centre of the local authority's financial meltdown. - Guardian

EY's global boss is set to leave the firm after his plan to split its consulting and accountancy arms fell apart. Carmine Di Sibio, global chief executive of the Big Four firm, told partners on Tuesday that he plans to retire next summer, despite receiving an extension last year to remain in the position until June 2025. - Telegraph

Entain, the Ladbrokes and Coral owner, said last night that it planned to bid about £750 million for Poland's STS Holding, a sports betting company, and has secured backing from the two biggest shareholders. Mateusz Juroszek and his father, Zbigniew Juroszek, together own about 70 per cent of the shares in STS and have accepted the offer, the London-listed gambling group said. - The Times

Britain's rollout of energy smart meters is facing more delays and cost increases amid a shortage of installation engineers and claims that many households do not want the devices, the public spending watchdog has warned. The meters transmit real-time usage data to suppliers and are seen as crucial to enabling a modern energy system and encouraging households to save energy. - The Times

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(Sharecast News) - The British digger maker JCB, owned by the billionaire Bamford family, continued to build and supply equipment for the Russian market months after saying it had stopped exports because of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the Guardian can reveal. Russian customs records show that JCB, whose owners are major donors to the Conservative party, continued to make new products available for Russian dealers well after 2 March 2022, when the company publicly stated that it had "voluntarily paused exports" to Russia. - Guardian
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(Sharecast News) - Lorries carrying perishable food and plants from the EU are being held for up to 20 hours at the UK's busiest Brexit border post as failures with the government's IT systems delay imports entering Britain. Businesses have described the government's new border control checks as a "disaster" after IT outages led to lorries carrying meat, cheese and cut flowers being held for long periods, reducing the shelf life of their goods and prompting retailers to reject some orders. - Guardian
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(Sharecast News) - Tesco is facing criticism from "shocked" charities who say they are struggling to distribute unwanted food to homeless and hungry people after they claim the retailer brought in rules that mean unwanted food can only be collected in the evening. The supermarket group has switched to a new system which asks charities to pick up unwanted food, such as items reaching their best before date, only in the evening when a store is closing rather than the following morning, the charities have claimed. - Guardian
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(Sharecast News) - BT has said it is increasingly using artificial intelligence to help it detect and neutralise threats from hackers targeting business customers amid repeated attacks on companies. The £10.5bn group is aiming to build up its business protecting customers from online criminals and has patented technology that uses AI to analyse attack data to allow companies to protect their tech infrastructure. British businesses are routinely facing hacking attempts, and some recent high-profile victims have included including the outsourcer Capita, Royal Mail and British Airways. - Guardian

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