You’ve got too much mail: why employers are cracking down on personal deliveries

Office mailrooms are overflowing with shopping packages for employees – and some companies have had enough. But should they look outside the box to keep their staff happy?

Q&A: what if I have been hit by the Carphone Warehouse data breach?

Personal details of up to 2.4m customers may have been accessed by hackers. This is what you need to look out for if you think you may have been targeted

The Guardian Cities: Skylines challenge – can I build a truly anti-capitalist city?

Urban planner Finn Williams uses the building simulator to create a ‘post-growth city’ with an economy based on social exchange rather than consumption

Working without walls: do you really need an office?

Startups are saying goodbye to expensive office space by ditching a permanent base altogether

‘The only way to fight email scammers is to waste their time. It’s a lot of fun’

After someone tried to scam him, comedian James Veitch decided to hit back by engaging web con artists in conversation… with hilarious results

Amazon is deaf to my Furby problem

After 18 months my daughter’s toy has a fault but neither the seller nor Amazon Marketplace will help

BT television boosted by sports channel screening Uefa Champions League

In first-quarter results BT says TV section is at two-year high, with new channel BT Sport Europe set to go live on Saturday

The Guardian view on greening the economy: the price is worth paying

Editorial: Some of the policy needed updating. But it cannot be made cost-free

How streaming TV has become a free-for-almost everyone

Want to watch a film on Netflix? More and more people are sharing subscriptions to avoid paying the full price. But when does ‘sharing’ become ‘stealing’?

Ebay beats forecasts before PayPal spin-off

Revenues rise by 7% in last quarter as online auction site prepares to separate from payments processer

Sky Broadband customers targeted for allegedly pirating Robert Redford film

US firm TCYK, apparently named after film The Company You Keep, made Sky hand over details of customers accused of downloading movie

Personality cash: why my ATM insists on being called ‘Sally’

Barclays is slowly replacing cashiers in its branches with ‘assisted service counters’. Don’t worry about interacting with actual humans, though – the glorified cash machines have names

Direct aid, subsidies, tax breaks – the hidden welfare budget we don’t debate

Vast sums are handed out in corporate welfare, and official silence is skewing the debate, so the public don’t know where billions of their own taxes are going

The £93bn handshake: businesses pocket huge subsidies and tax breaks

Guardian’s analysis reveals that hidden subsidies, direct grants and tax breaks to big business amount to £3,500 a year given by each UK household

You need never use a bank again. Here’s why

The emergence of peer-to-peer lending, fintech and new forms of currencies mean people and businesses can act on their dissatisfaction with the big banks