ITV profits fall as advertising revenue slips

Sir Philip Green: 'Still stains' despite BHS pension deal

Car insurance: Chancellor moves to ease insurers' fears

Australia goes 25 years without recession

UK's ultra-rich set to grow by a third in 10 years

Top Republican says Trump's budget plan 'dead on arrival'

Indian economic growth slows in final quarter of 2016

Vietnam's 'bikini airline' Vietjet takes off in public listing

SpaceX to fly two tourists around Moon in 2018

Dow Jones stock index hits best winning streak since 1987

Trump lays out hike in military spending

Primark still in fashion as sales soar

Insurance premiums 'to soar' after compensation changes

London Stock Exchange/Deutsche Boerse merger in doubt

Nokia 3310 mobile phone resurrected at MWC 2017

Google brings Assistant to Android phones

Warren Buffett upbeat on US business growth

VW cracks down on executive pay after diesel scandal

East Africa to track trucks from Mombasa port to stop theft

BA owner IAG's profits hit by weak pound

Royal Bank of Scotland reports ninth year of losses

India police arrest 'world's cheapest smartphone' firm boss

Ex-IMF chief Rodrigo Rato gets 4.5 years for embezzlement

Trump's Treasury Secretary targets tax reform 'by August'

German budget surplus highest since 1990

Peugeot owner PSA sees profits nearly double

Barclays full-year profits almost treble to £3.2bn

Australia Post chief resigns despite bumper profits

Qantas profits buffeted by competition headwinds

Nissan chief executive Carlos Ghosn quits

Federal Reserve may raise US rates 'fairly soon'

Gig economy chiefs defend business model

South Africa budget targets top earners

WTO's new global trade deal comes into force

UK economy grows faster than thought

RWE forced to scrap dividend again

Come to France post-Brexit, banks urged

Magnitsky bill turns UK into 'hostile environment' for kleptocrats

Champagne pops back into Irish CPI basket

Burger King owner to buy Popeyes chicken chain for $1.8bn

Verizon and Yahoo agree $350m price cut

Government finances record £9.4bn surplus in January

Bank of England forecasts 'improved'

HSBC sees full year profit plunge 62% to $7.1bn

Volkswagen 'fixes 470,000 UK diesel cars'

Greece: EU and IMF in 'common position'

South Africa retail merger collapses

Google and Bing to demote pirate sites in UK web searches

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Kraft Heinz drops Unilever takeover bid

SpaceX successfully launches rocket after Saturday setback

Marmite owner Unilever rejects Kraft takeover bid

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UK retail sales fall unexpectedly

Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong arrested in South Korea

Hanjin: Final curtain falls on shipping saga

Zuckerberg: my Facebook manifesto to re-boot globalisation

Blackberry sues Nokia in patent clash

Austria to sue Airbus over Eurofighter contract

South Africa's rand currency 'rigged by banks'

£900 coat maker Canada Goose to sell shares

UK spending less on alcohol and tobacco, more on eating out

KitKat maker Nestle misses forecasts as profit falls

RBS accused of fraud and forgery by customers and ex-staff

Yahoo and Verizon 'near to agreeing revised sale terms'

Peugeot-Vauxhall: UK and Germany raise concerns on deal talks

Lufthansa agrees pay deal with pilot union

Ceta: EU parliament backs free trade deal with Canada

UK unemployment falls by 7,000 to 1.6m

Lloyds of London angers staff with workday boozing ban

Yogurt firm warns on higher milk prices

Facebook takes aim at Youtube with new standalone TV app

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Facebook is to roll out an app that lets users watch the platform's video content on television.

The move could allow it to eventually better compete with the likes of YouTube and traditional television channels for advertising revenue.

Users with Apple TV, Amazon's Fire TV and Samsung's Smart TVs will be able to watch Facebook's user-generated videos directly on their televisions.

The announcement is in line with Facebook's increasing focus on video.

The company has recently been paying creators for exclusive premium video content, and is heavily promoting the Facebook Live feature that allows users to live stream events.

Facebook says the standalone app will be released "soon".

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Analysis: Dave Lee, BBC North America technology reporter

The only screen Facebook doesn't dominate right now is the biggest one in your home.

The company's decision to launch these TV apps - which we've been expecting for some time now - is the first significant step the company has made to build its challenge to the likes of Netflix and Hulu.

To do that, though, it will need to offer programmes that are of a far higher quality than what is on Facebook right now. That will require big investment in getting top talent to make Facebook-only video.

One interesting move will be how it plans to make money from TV. If Facebook feels it can make its content free (with income coming from advertising), then it could give subscriber services like Netflix and Amazon Prime serious pause for thought.

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The announcement by the social media giant was made together with several other news about the company's video features.

Videos will now autoplay sound in the news feed and will be displayed in full, even if they are vertical.

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VW gets initial backing from US court for diesel settlement

Yellen: Fed interest rate hike may be 'appropriate'

Greek economy shrinks between October and December

Peugeot shares soar on reports of merger with GM's Opel

UK inflation rises to 1.8%

Toshiba shares plunge as it delays crucial earnings report

Trump says Mnuchin will fight for tax cuts and jobs

US shares closed Monday with yet another record high

Dakota pipeline: US judge denies request to halt construction

Co-op Bank put up for sale

Samsung chief in second grilling over corruption claims

Swiss voters reject reform to multinationals' tax bills

Panama charges two Mossack Fonseca partners over Brazil link

People urged to check dating phrases to beat scammers

EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker 'will not seek second term'

India's iconic Ambassador car brand is sold to Peugeot

BA cabin crew to stage new four day strike over pay

Is India's Infosys in a Tata-style battle?

Disney to buy most of Euro Disney

French carmaker Renault reports record revenues

Reckitt Benckiser buys baby formula firm Mead Johnson

Universal Music in private Prince songs deal

Trump aide Kellyanne Conway 'wrong' over Ivanka plug

L'Oreal looks to sell The Body Shop

German trade surplus hits record high

US firms 'worried' over Brexit impact

Manchester United announces record quarterly revenues

Twitter quarterly loss widens to $167m

Thomas Cook sees rising demand for holidays in Greece

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Goldman moves London hedge fund to US

Trump under fire in Nordstrom Ivanka row

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Decommission planned for North Sea Brent oil field

Australia Post boss paid 10 times more than PM

Disney boss warns China trade war would be damaging

Twitter rolls out new anti-abuse tools

GM's US workers to get $12,000 bonus

Lloyds to review HBOS customer cases

BP profits show signs of recovery

Tech giants oppose Trump immigration ban

YouTuber admits Fifa gambling offences

Motorists shun diesel cars while eco-friendly sales rise

Brexit vote already bad for firms, bosses say

Toyota says weakening yen will help profits

Do 'longest flight' records matter?

Ryanair sees average fares fall by 17%

Volkswagen faces new front on emissions legal action

US announces $8.5bn F35 order

Trump to order review that could relax Dodd-Frank bank rules

US firms added 27,000 jobs in January, official figures show

Ivanka Trump fashion brand dropped by US retailer after sales drop - 'not boycott'

Fashion retailer Nordstrom has dropped a clothing line by Ivanka Trump.

It's after campaigners called for a boycott on stores doing business with the president's family. But the company blames the move on poor sales.

The US firm says it makes "buying decisions based on performance" and that cutting brands "is part of the regular rhythm of our business".

"Like with everything we buy, we make decisions season by season. In this case, we've decided not to buy it."

Ivanka Trump, who works as an adviser to her dad, licenses her name to branded products including shoes, handbags and clothing.

She also designs and sells jewellery.

The #GrabYourWallet campaign urged customers to boycott firms which have supported the Trumps.

It was started by two women angry about the president's comments about women which came out in October.

Co-founder Shannon Coulter reacted on Twitter, saying: "Big news everyone. You did this. I am in awe #GrabYourWallet.

"Those who voted against Donald control $7 trillion in spending.

"Never forget it. Never forget our power. Together, we can change a lot."

The campaign's website lists companies it supports boycotting and reasons they're linked to the US president.

On the department store's website on Friday, the only Ivanka Trump items available were four styles of shoe, all reduced.

Ivanka Trump first launched her footwear range in 2011.

That line was cancelled by Canadian retailer, Shoes.com, in November and her designs have now been dropped by interior decor store Bellacor as well.

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He insisted he was unconcerned by Mr Trump's promise to pursue energy independence and said Saudi Arabia had invested billions of dollars in the American oil industry.

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