Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Energy sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A German start-up has secured a record €130mn in funding to develop its fusion energy technology, as investors step up bets on Europe’s potential in the race to create abundant zero emissions power by combining … Read more
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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. Marks and Spencer is accepting online orders again, seven weeks after disclosing a sustained cyber attack that disrupted its business and is set to cost it hundreds of millions of pounds. The retailer told customers … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The world’s ocean temperatures reached the second-highest level on record for May, capping an “alarming” two-year streak of rapid warming and fuelling concerns about the seas’ ability to absorb rising levels of carbon dioxide. The … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US semiconductor group Qualcomm has agreed a $2.4bn deal to buy chip designer Alphawave, marking the latest tech company departure from the London market. The companies’ boards said Qualcomm’s cash offer represented a price of … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Apple will allow millions of app developers to access its artificial intelligence models for the first time, as the tech group looks to capitalise on its vast hardware and software ecosystem to give it an … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Cyber Security myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. United Natural Foods, the primary distributor for Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market, has been struck by outages following a cyber attack that is expected to cause disruption on supermarket shelves. UNF, which counts on Whole Foods … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. I cannot stand to be proved wrong. Especially by my husband. The audacity. But as I sit in the inescapable blinding sunlight that holds my living room captive for several hours every afternoon, I … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. A phrase that is catchy, sometimes true, and perhaps, in Donald Trump’s America, an investment strategy. A possible example of this comes from telecoms mogul Charlie Ergen. … Read more
Just three years ago, media chief David Zaslav pulled off the deal of his life: combining his much smaller television company Discovery with HBO-owner Warner Bros in a $43bn merger that he described as a “rendezvous with destiny”. On Monday, Zaslav, in effect, unwound that deal by splitting Warner Bros Discovery into two companies facing … Read more