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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is hard being everyone’s favourite. Raspberry Pi is both last year’s UK initial public offering success story and the poster child for British start-ups. And that is on top of its day job making … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Raspberry Pi’s pre-tax profits fell more than 50 per cent in 2024 as the semiconductor designer and maker of tiny, low-cost computers battled inventory issues, in its first full-year results since it went public on … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Global companies have started to drop climate goals from executive pay plans, as the corporate world retreats from ESG initiatives in the face of fierce US opposition and mounting costs. Payouts linked to environmental, social … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Builder.ai has restated past revenues and appointed BDO to carry out its first group-level audit, as the new chief executive of one of the UK’s best-funded tech start-ups addresses “problems” under its past leadership. The … Read more
The Financial Times’ sixth annual ranking of the fastest-growing companies in the Americas covers a period that included the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown and the end of rock-bottom interest rates. Based on disclosed revenue growth between 2020 and 2023, the median revenue of the ranked companies was $20.1mn, slightly lower than the $20.5mn in the 2024 … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. While A Minecraft Movie was being filmed, the producers set up a series of private servers for cast and crew to play Minecraft during the shoot. The most dedicated player by far was Jack Black, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Isomorphic Labs, the drug discovery start-up spun out of Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence unit, has raised $600mn in its first external funding round, as investors bet on the potential for AI to “solve disease”. The … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our FirstFT newsletter. Subscribers can sign up to our Asia, Europe/Africa or Americas edition to get the newsletter delivered every weekday morning. Explore all of our newsletters here Good morning and welcome back to FirstFT Asia. In today’s newsletter: Andreessen Horowitz could join US TikTok bid China’s latest … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk’s social media company X has asked the Supreme Court to shield its users from US law enforcement, intervening in a case that could force the federal government to produce a warrant to access … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz is in talks to invest in social media platform TikTok as part of an effort led by Donald Trump to wrest control of the popular video app from its … Read more