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Prize draw platforms sit at the intersection of consumer entertainment, payments and regulation. While often perceived as simple promotional products, their commercial viability is shaped by trust, compliance and revenue structure. Digital prize draw businesses occupy a distinct niche in the UK market. Win A Million, which launched in 2025, operates as an online prize draw platform offering both paid and free entry routes.

The Spanish government announced on Monday that it has fined the online rentals giant 64 million euros ($75 million) for advertising unlicensed rental listings in the country. This decision is the latest in several months of back-and-forths, as the government previously ordered Airbnb to remove more than 120,000 listings it identified as unlicensed. While Spain's Consumer Affairs Ministry said the fine was a final decision and couldn't be appealed, San Francisco-based Airbnb is reportedly planning to challenge it in court.

We need to have a more mature relationship with risk. Projects often do not go ahead because of concerns about safety but often all you are doing is moving the risk somewhere else. He said the UK's risk aversion was demonstrated to him by a recent decision by London's royal parks to close during high winds. Instead of going for a walk through the park, [people] ended up walking around the edge of it instead, where there were often more trees.

Kaiser declined several requests for an interview, but said in a statement that AI tools don't make medical decisions or replace human care. Rather, they hold "significant potential to benefit health care by supporting better diagnostics, enhancing patient-clinician relationships, optimizing clinicians' time, and ensuring fairness in care experiences and health outcomes by addressing individual needs."

San Jose, the capital of Silicon Valley, is now ground zero in California's battle over how to govern the rise of data centers used to power artificial intelligence. The county seat of Santa Clara is touting its partnership with Pacific Gas & Electric, claiming the city is "the West Coast's premier destination for data center development." The investor-owned utility now estimates it has enough capacity in its planning pipeline to push the city's electricity use to almost three times its current peak.

The sidewalk outside Majed Zeidan's grocery store in San Francisco's Mission District has stayed filled with flowers, candles, memorials and pictures since his cat was crushed under a Waymo in late October. A month later, a Waymo reportedly crushed a dog. Amid the pictures of the cat, a visitor had placed a poster that said, save the cat, kill the car. That's when Zeidan knew Kit Kat, his bodega cat, had become the face of the simmering discontent over San Francisco's growing number of self-driving cars.

Kalshi and Polymarket maintain their platforms offer "event contracts" between private parties that should be regulated like commodities rather than traditional gambling subject to state oversight; an argument that has received pushback from government officials, NBC Chicago said. Companies like Kalshi and Polymarket should "package sports betting as events contracts" to circumvent established gaming regulations, state attorneys general claimed in a lawsuit in June.

After a prolonged will-they, won't-they phase between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix swooped in with an $83 billion offer on Friday to acquire the Warner Bros. side of the business - which includes the film and TV studios, HBO Max and HBO. Variety reports that the $83 billion in enterprise value (meaning the entire worth of the business, including debt) levels out to about $72 billion in equity value, which is the amount that WBD shareholders actually pocket. The deal is slated to close in 12 to 18 months, after the planned spin-off of Discovery Global into its own company in Q3 next year.

This week's headlines paint a clear picture: AI is becoming the backbone of business strategy. In today's MadTech Daily, we discuss global ad spend set to top USD$1tn in 2026, WPP being demoted from the FTSE 100, and the EU probing Meta's AI use in WhatsApp. Eventbrite is changing hands in a deal worth USD $500m (£378.8m). The acquisition by Bending Spoons underscores the challenges facing the ticketing platform, whose growth has slowed despite strong brand recognition.

It was the kind of cold, damp morning that makes it hard to get out of bed, much less get a child out the door. The sun had not even risen when five-year-old Thomas Cooper and his mother, Annie Cooper, arrived for an appointment on 31 January at the Oxford Center in Troy, a northern suburb of Detroit, Michigan. Thomas was an exuberant child with a button nose and pinchable cheeks a little kid who loved running fast, playing Minecraft and watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, according to a GoFundMe set up by his family. He had just received money in a special red envelope for lunar new year, and he planned to spend it later that day with his little brother. But first, he was going to receive hyperbaric oxygen therapy for his attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and sleep apnea. That morning, Thomas got into a tubular metal and clear plastic chamber, which was sealed, pressurized and filled with 100% oxygen.

"We won't back down," Mr O'Keeffe said. "The livelihood of taxi drivers depends on it. We won't allow [Uber] to run the Irish industry into the ground. "We have seen the devastating effect this had on Barcelona a number of years ago. "They come in and destabilise the market, they push out the regulated taxis until they have a control on the market, and then the prices increase."

That year, the committee noticed there had been five recent local deaths involving e-bike riders: A man in his 60s who'd been hit by a car while turning at an intersection. A man in his 50s who lost control of his e-bike, jumped the curb and struck a light standard. A man in his 50s who was riding in a bike lane when he was hit by a car turning into a parking lot.

Portsmouth owner Michael Eisner says the English football pyramid is a "financial disaster" for clubs at Championship level - but says the introduction of an independent regulator offers hope "extraordinary losses" will be a thing of the past.

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Online trading has become a normal part of how people invest and manage money today. With so many platforms available, it can be hard to tell which ones truly protect personal data and funds. Knowing how to identify a secure trading platform helps safeguard both money and peace of mind. A trusted platform follows clear rules, uses strong security tools, and treats users with honesty.

GeoEdge, the global authority in ad security and user protection, today (18th November, 2025) announced the launch of User Safety Now, a global initiative urging the adoption of a universal safety standard for digital advertising. The initiative follows GeoEdge's warning to regulators and digital media industry leaders that the internet is confronting a mounting user-safety crisis. In 2025, GeoEdge found that 1 in every 40 programmatic impressions in North America carried malicious intent designed to defraud users.

After testing three different toys powered by AI, researchers from the US Public Interest Research Group found that the playthings can easily verge into risky conversational territory for children, including telling them where to find knives in a kitchen and how to start a fire with matches. One of the AI toys even engaged in explicit discussions, offering extensive advice on sex positions and fetishes.

And ever since money was created as a means to exchange for goods and services, advertising has crept in and bombarded us with phrases, buzzwords, and terms in order to coax us into buying their products over their competitors' offerings. Some words are more effective than others, but there are some terms marketers use that have been proven effective in increasing their sales that don't mean what you may think that they do.

The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (CSRB) aims to ensure critical services, including healthcare, water, transport and energy, are protected against cyber attacks, which cost the UK economy almost £15bn a year.

Ingraham shared a headline from Politico on Monday night that read, Rand Paul wants hemp vote to speed up shutdown endgame. She captioned the story with her own words, adding, Rand Paul wants to hold things up in the Senate so more Americans can get buzzed on hemp-products. Ingraham's apparent dig at Paul, who has long been a thorn in the side of President Donald Trump on foreign policy and a few other issues, led to a response from the Kentucky Senator.

But as the lawsuit continues to play out, Massachusetts is no longer listed among the states the company does business in. The suit in Massachusetts is similar in nature to a case filed in Washington state against fellow HEI provider Unison. An appellate court recently ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and determined that Unison's product was a reverse mortgage under state law. Unison initially sought to appeal that decision but settled with the plaintiffs shortly thereafter.

The guidelines advocate using existing legal frameworks like the Information Technology Act and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act to handle emerging risks such as deepfakes and unauthorized data use. "India's AI governance adopts a balanced, agile and flexible approach that promotes innovation and safety," Amal Mohanty, AI policy expert and one of the lead authors of the guidelines, told DW. He said India's approach is different to the rules charted by the EU, China and the US. "Unlike the EU's detailed AI Act that imposes strict, rule-based obligations based on risk classification, ours favors self-regulation and voluntary measures," he said. "This allows developers more freedom to innovate while managing AI risks responsibly."

One in eight UK small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) leaders are planning to relocate themselves, their companies, or both overseas, citing rising taxes and mounting regulatory costs, according to a new report by Rathbones. The research, released just weeks before Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers her Autumn Budget, paints a bleak picture of business confidence across the UK's private sector. If realised, the potential exodus could involve around 680,000 firms out of the UK's 5.67 million SMEs

By early November 2025, the sector's combined market capitalization surged nearly 80%, briefly topping the $24 billion to $25 billion range. Zcash ( ZEC) rallied to its highest level in seven years, while Dash ( DASH) notched a three-year high as trading activity accelerated across major exchanges. The move reflects a textbook rotation. Prolonged downtrends finally gave way, short positions were forced to cover, and anticipation around Zcash's upcoming halving provided traders with a renewed catalyst amid a largely stagnant broader market.

Care homes that are graded as inadequate or requiring improvement are often not being reinspected for a year or more, a BBC investigation has found. More than 2,100 care homes in England as of October this year were rated as "requires improvement" by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) - but the BBC found three quarters of those had not been reinspected within a year or more.

"I had no idea what was being injected into me," Lizzie said. "It's just hype - it's a trend, a bit like fashion - if everyone buys the same handbag it becomes popular and I'd say it's the same for aesthetics."

I think the big cyber incidents happening in the Middle East and Europe in recent months, particularly ransomware as a service, so big names like Jaguar Land Rover and others, have kind of given this meeting an extra buzz just before we met. Quite a few people flew in from that have been affected by the supply chain attack on baggage handling software. So it was very relevant and topical.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang offered a blunt prediction that China will beat the U.S. in the AI race and that Western countries are being held back by cynicism. As the battle over who will dominate in the development of the consequential technology, Huang, whose $5 trillion California-based company is trapped in regulatory crossfire, argued that China is structurally advantaged and pointed to the country's radically lower energy costs and permissive regulatory environment.

Newham Council wants the Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, to develop a "food delivery charter" that companies would have to sign up to. This would compel them to provide riders with guidance and help to ensure their bikes are legally compliant and roadworthy. Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat say they require their riders to use roadworthy and legal vehicles, and they would welcome the chance to work more closely with London's fire and transport authorities. The mayor said he was considering extending current guidance.

Minister of State with responsibility for Road Safety, Seán Canney, today signed regulations that mean learner drivers who have held a category A, A1, A2, AM, B or W permit for four years will have to sit a full driving test before being allowed to renew their permit. A loophole in the law that was repeatedly highlighted by road safety activists means that currently, learners can renew their permits repeatedly if they can show they have booked or scheduled a driving test - but not necessarily sat it.

I am an eight-year-old girl, standing near-naked in a room full of strangers. As the room spins and zooms upon me and people glide around me, I clock my features. I don't look eight. I look like a grey Barbie doll, complete with cleavage and bare feet locked uncomfortably in the high-heel position. I have a large block head that resembles a grey marshmallow. I'm in the world of Roblox, where block-like avatars transform themselves to explore a universe comprising millions of user-generated games.

BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, is reportedly planning to launch the iShares Bitcoin ETF (ASX: IBIT) on the Australian Securities Exchange, extending its global Bitcoin investment strategy to the Asia-Pacific region. Expected to debut in mid-November 2025, IBIT will give Australian investors regulated exposure to Bitcoin through a traditional stock exchange structure, removing the need for offshore accounts or direct crypto custody.