Technology

Which says many UK households get half the broadband speed they pay for.

Customers on a 38Mbps service received average speeds of 19Mbps, according to its findings, taken from 235,000

PayPal has bought iZettle, a Swedish mobile payments company that sells a card-reader aimed at small businesses, for $2.2bn (£1.6bn).

The move boosts PayPal's in-store presence at a time when competition in the online payments sector is increasing.

The takeover comes less than three weeks after iZettle said it would list shares

Technology may have brought the music industry to its knees 20 years ago, but these days pop stars and record labels are using computing power to find new audiences and take fresh creative decisions.

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