Illegally crushed its competition in online search any landmark ruling back in august. The Case Centres on google accounting for 90 of such inquiries in the united states, which is similar to other countries. One of the crucial ways it does so well is the more than 26 Billion in annual payments it is thought to make two Smartphone Makers to make two Smartphone Makers to beat their default search engine. The advertising around the search meant its latest results, alphabet reported a profit of 23. 6 Billion in the three months until the end of june. The us government says it is harming competitors and fully remedying these harms requires not only ending its control of Distribution Today, but also ensuring google cannot control the distribution of tomorrow. Google said in a Blog Post the melodies were radical and would have. To go through this now i am joined by the managing director. The key question i have is can or should google be broken up . You no back to should google be broken up
a semiconductor superpower. our asia business reporter monica miller has more. it is a major setback. prime minister narendra modi has made chip making a top priority for india s economic strategy in pursuit of what they say is a new era of electronics making. it doesn t get much bigger than foxconn, which makes roughly 70% of apple s iphones. india estimates that its semiconductor market could be worth $63 billion by 2026. now, we need to go back a little bit to explain how this partnership happened. that was in september 2020 to the taiwanese firm and the indian mining giant agreed to this deal. and part of it was because foxconn was looking at the situation then, which had strict covid restrictions in china, where a lot of these phones are made. they are also concerned about the geopolitical tensions we ve mentioned many times on this programme between the us and china. so it was looking to partner up, which is with the country which is now the largest in the world. but un
prices will stay high for longer. and we take a look at the biggest deal in golf, ahead of a us senate hearing into the pga liv merger. welcome to world business report. let s start here in the uk where the government is facing another big setback in its battle against inflation. new data show that average wages have risen at a record annual pace of 7.3% in the march to may period, compared with the same period last year. british headline inflation is running at 8.7%, staying higher for longer than many had forecast. and there are concerns that after 13 consecutive interest rate rises, that the bank of england could need to raise it even further to bring price rises under control. let s hear now from janet mui, head of market analysis at rbc brewin dolphin. thank you for being with us. inflation has not been coming down at the expected pace. what does this data signal about how things could pan out? good afternoon. thank you for having me. which group is still pretty strong,
by 11 of the 31 members of the alliance. uk prime minister rishi sunak is expected to urge nato allies to learn the lessons from russia s invasion of ukraine and invest more in defence. joining me now is hugo brennan, research director at the risk intelligence company verisk maplecroft. good morning to you, hugo. so, just talk us through the level of defence spending going on at the moment. because this has been a contentious issue for years within nato, hasn t it? it very much has been, yeah. i mean, the first thing to say is the question of who foots the bill to pay for the alliance? as you say, that s long been a question mark. you ll remember back to 2019, when donald trump made it very much top of the agenda. and again, it s going to be in this latest nato summit. as you said, we re expecting some sort of agreement that will make it a requirement for nato member states to spend at least 2% of their gdp on defence spending, which would build on that 2014 agreement you r
we begin with the airline industry and hope for staff at the collapsed airline flybe. ryanair and easyjet say they are happy to snap them up. easyjet says it has 250 vacancies for cabin crew, ryanair says it has vacancies in all categories, including pilots, engineers and ground staff. flybe went into administration on saturday putting 277 staff out of work. in about 25 minutes we ll be getting ryanair s third quarter results which are expected to be strong due to pent up travel demand. joining me now isjohn strickland, airline analyst atjls consulting. good morning, lovely to see you. let s start with flybe. the staff were concerned about their future but easyjet and ryanair say they are ready and waiting. ryanair say they are ready and waitinu. ~ ryanair say they are ready and waitin-. . , ryanair say they are ready and waitinu. ~ , ., ryanair say they are ready and waitinu. ~ u, ., ., ., waiting. we could not have a better contrast waiting. we could not have a better c