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Apple made the tech available to developers last October, opening up the US, the UK and five other markets for buildout. Vipps, a small Norwegian payments startup was the first to launch an iPhone tap-to-pay app. PayPal rolled out a contactless payments presence in Germany this month. What鈥檚 at stake: More wallets competing on the iPhone are set to snap up Apple Pay鈥檚 established market share.

Digging into the data: Microsoft created an agentic AI emulation of a panel of expert physicians that studied 304 complex cases from the New England Journal of Medicine. The AI panel correctly solved 85% of the NEJM cases, compared with an average of  20% solved by a panel of 21 physicians from the US and UK.

The news: UK retailers are reeling from a series of cyberattacks that hit operations at Marks & Spencer, Harrods, and Co-op. In addition to exposing sensitive customer data to bad actors, the hacks have upended operations, resulting in empty shelves and stalled ecommerce sales.

The news: UK-based neobank Monzo rolled out Monzo Split to help consumers more easily share expenses. The feature lets UK consumers split, track, pay, and request payments directly from the Monzo app. It also lets them divide payments with friends or family members that either don鈥檛 bank with Monzo or don鈥檛 live in the UK by sending them a link where they can join the app as a guest.

厂丑别颈苍鈥檚 UK revenues soar while the wait for IPO drags on: The fast-fashion retailer鈥檚 success has come at the expense of companies like Boohoo and Asos.

Social commerce has yet to reach its potential in the UK. Social buying is still on the rise鈥攁nd there is plenty of headroom to grow spend.

The British drama continued its momentum with another 42 million views in its second week, outperforming all other English-language shows on the platform. In the UK, "Adolescence" became the first streaming title to lead the country鈥檚 official weekly TV ratings, drawing 6.45 million viewers with its debut episode鈥攂eating long-running broadcast hits like 鈥淭he Apprentice.鈥�.

Carney is also the only person to have led both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. This background gives him rare insight into global financial systems, monetary policy, and crisis management, as he helped to steer Canada鈥檚 financial industry through the 2008 recession, per Politico.

Both companies are increasing ad spend in Europe, especially in the UK and France鈥攁lthough such relief may be short-lived, given that both countries are also considering crackdowns on de minimis imports.

NatWest: This major UK bank recently shifted from a gradual, ROI-per-use-case approach to reimagining the entire customer experience. Natwest is democratizing AI by rolling out internal AI tools to all 70,000 of its employees.

The expansion is designed to make India a strategic manufacturing hub鈥攕erving both the domestic market and global platforms like 厂丑别颈苍鈥檚 US and UK websites鈥攁s rising tariffs and geopolitical tensions complicate Chinese sourcing. The context: Shein first launched in India in 2018, but its app was banned in 2020 during a broader crackdown on Chinese tech firms.

Methodology: Data is from the April 2025 Criteo report titled "The Spark of Discovery: Reigniting The Emotion of Ecommerce" in partnership with Harvard PR and Vitreous World. 6,000 consumers in the UK, US, France, Germany, Japan, and South Korea were surveyed online during February 7-17, 2025.

The survey was conducted in Australia, France, Germany, Japan, the UK, and the US. Ivanti is an automation platform for enterprise IT security.

The UK is home to the highest proportion of startups in Europe and Israel, per a June 2024 report by Accel and Dealroom鈥攂ut French-founded genAI companies have raised the most funding of $2.29 billion, ahead of UK ($1.15 billion) and Germany ($636 million). Predictions. Strategic partnerships with technology vendors will be a key priority in 2025.

According to the Yale Budget Lab, which factors in the China and UK tariff rollbacks, prices are expected to rise 1.7% in the short term, adding about $2,800 in annual costs per household鈥攅nough to make many consumers think twice before reaching for their credit cards.