Here are the business stories making the headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.
DC Thomson plans to cut 35 jobs and close four magazines
DC Thomson is proposing to close four magazines as part of plans that put 55 jobs at risk of redundancy.
The Scotland-based publisher is expecting a potential reduction of about 35 roles following the consultation period.
The roles affected in the new proposals are across audience and insight, data journalism, subscriptions, brand and marketing, magazines and Beano Studios, Press Gazette understands.
Dragons’ Den judge Sara Davies has crafting business rescued
A turnaround investment firm that recently acquired Hobbycraft is behind the pre-pack acquisition of a crafting company founded by Sara Davies, the entrepreneur and Dragons’ Den panellist.
Entities controlled by Modella Capital have acquired Crafter’s Companion for £425,000 from insolvency practitioners at Interpath after the loss-making company filed for administration this month.
The sale, via a fast-track pre-pack administration, saved 134 out of 148 jobs but has left creditors with multimillion-pound losses.
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Tributes to Wilson Anderson Aberdeen hotelier who was ‘everyone’s friend’
Well-known Aberdeen hospitality boss Wilson Anderson has died, aged 67, after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
An owner of Royal Deeside’s four-star Banchory Lodge Hotel, Wilson helped shape Aberdeen’s vibrant hospitality scene since the nineties.
Those who knew him described him as a dedicated family man who was kind-hearted and had time for everybody.
Read the full story in the P&J.
LinkedIn accused of using private messages to train AI
A US lawsuit filed on behalf of LinkedIn Premium users accuses the social media platform of sharing their private messages with other companies to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.
It alleges that in August last year, the world's largest professional social networking website "quietly" introduced a privacy setting, automatically opting users in to a programme that allowed third parties to use their personal data to train AI.
A LinkedIn spokesperson told BBC News that "these are false claims with no merit".
EasyJet considers flying from Heathrow if third runway approved
Easyjet will look at expanding into Heathrow “at scale” if Europe’s busiest airport is given the green light to build a third runway.
The budget airline said it also supports bringing a second runway into commission at Gatwick, if London’s second-busiest airport used the extra capacity to build in “resilience” and reduce the incidence of air traffic control failures that blight holidaymakers’ plans.
Kenton Jarvis, who succeeded Johan Lundgren as chief executive of easyJet this month, said the carrier had not previously contemplated expansion into Heathrow in its 30-year history because the shortage of available take-off and landing slots would only ever have allowed it to operate two or three planes.
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