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GameStop, the American video game chain that became the standard-bearer of the 2021 meme stock frenzy, has stunned Wall Street with an unsolicited $55.5bn (£40.9bn) cash-and-stock offer for the online marketplace eBay, an audacious reverse takeover that would see a company worth roughly a quarter of its target attempt to swallow it whole.

ebay rebuffs GameStop’s surprise $55.5bn swoop

eBay has rejected a surprise $55.5bn takeover bid from GameStop, calling it “neither credible nor attractive”. Ryan Cohen may now go direct to shareholders.

National Grid commits record £70bn to power the next decade of energy networks

UK economy defies gloom with surprise March growth as Iran war clouds outlook

Meta dealt blow by EU court in landmark ruling on publisher payments

Oil stocks drain at record pace as Iran war chokes global supply

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Few retailers wear their politics quite so visibly as Alan Roper. Stand the managing director of Blue Diamond, the UK’s leading garden centre group, with 54 destination sites across Britain and the Channel Islands, in front of a microphone and the easy West Country charm gives way to something rather more pointed.

Alan Roper: ‘wage and tax policy has stripped £12.6m out of our profits’

Blue Diamond MD Alan Roper on the £12.6m hit from minimum wage and NI rises, his plans to double Britain’s leading garden centre group, the restaurant boom and what he would do as chancellor for a day.

Leonid Radvinsky, the billionaire owner of OnlyFans, has died at the age of 43 after a long battle with cancer, the company has confirmed.

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Leonid Radvinsky, billionaire owner of OnlyFans, has died aged 43 after cancer, following years of rapid growth and scrutiny of the platform.

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