Shell said it "strongly disagrees" with the findings, and complained this potentially holds back green innovation, by stopping large conglomerates promoting more sustainable product ranges. The ASA also required Spanish energy company Repsol and Malaysia’s Petronas to remove ad campaigns for similar reasons. ![]() The ASA says these ads, which featured renewable electricity and car charging points, gave a misleading picture to consumers by failing to mention that most of its business is in polluting fossil fuels. ![]() The Advertising Standards Authority is getting tough on "greenwashing", demanding oil giant Shell pulls its recent advertisements on renewable energy programmes. Apple says it wants to shift almost one million Vision Pro units when it goes on sale next year, although Morningstar analysts explain this might be an optimistic forecast. There are a few glitches to iron out, but the tech journalists invited to test it at the company’s launch seemed genuinely impressed. Apple isn’t calling this Vision Pro a VR headset but is styling it as an augemented- or mixed-reality experience, with users able to see digital content projected onto their surroundings. Previously a common swear word had reverted to "ducking", but enthusiasts will now be able to use the more x-rated version when contemplating the price tag of the company’s new virtual reality headset: $3,499 (£2,899). It’s a good job Apple is changing the autocorrect on its text messaging service this week. Apple Just Took a Chunk Out of Facebook's VR Market Licht, who was chairman and chief executive, had come under pressure after programming misfires, an unpopular redundancy programme, publicly criticising his predecessor, and, most recently, admitting in a magazine article he knew the crowd for the widely criticised town hall with president Donald Trump would be "extra Trumpy". Over in the US it was TV channel CNN in the news after the shock departure of its chief Chris Licht after just 13 months. Receivers have taken control of the group, leading to speculation as to who might buy the Conservative-leaning "Torygraph" titles, which boast Boris Johnson as a former columnist (Johnson was editor at the latter). The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, along with stablemate The Spectator magazine, are up for sale due to debts owed by their parent group. But this week it was the turn of old-fashioned "mainstream" media brands. Social media companies frequently make the headlines due to the antics of their bosses. This intervention comes as US regulators sue two trading platforms, Binance and Coinbase, for alleged regulatory breaches. These regulations, due to come into force this Autumn, come as figures show crypto ownership more than doubled between 20 - with 10% of the consumers surveyed by the FCA now owning crypto assets. In addition, crypto firms will have to remind people to think twice before making an investment and introduce a cooling off period for first-time buyers. Customers will be told to "prepare to lose all the money you invest" and warned there is no protection or safety net should something go wrong. There's Nothing Cryptic About Crypto WarningsĬigarette packets carry health warnings, and firms selling crypto-currency investments will soon have to include similarly stark wealth warnings to potential investors. Sadly no-one at Swizzels’ marketing team thought to call them Swine Gums. M&S reached an amicable agreement with confectioners Swizzels, who will now redesign their strawberry-flavoured pig-shaped foamy sweets, known as "Pig Mugs". The researchers say this reflects food taxation policies in France and the reach of discount supermarkets like Aldi and Lidl - which account for 80% of supermarket sales in these other countries, but just 17% in the UK.Īfter M&S’s Colin the Caterpillar saw off copyright infringements from Aldi’s Cuthbert caterpillar cake, there was a similar victory this week for the retailer’s all conquering Percy Pig brand. France is the most expensive place to buy these items, and Germany the cheapest. UK shoppers are paying more for a basket of goods than Dutch or German consumers, but less than those in other European countries. The study found huge variation in the price of individual items, but overall Brits don’t seem to be losing out. As inflation remains stubbornly high - and UK supermarkets and food companies are accused of "greedflation" (profiteering from rising prices) - research this week looked at the cost of 23 everyday items across the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, to see who is paying more. However, on the plus side we have cheaper tuna fish, frozen pizza, cooking oil and nappies than shoppers on the continent. Brits are paying more for loo roll, butter and ketchup than our European neighbours.
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