Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Long queues and midnight store openings have marked the global launch of Nintendo’s Switch 2, a long-awaited console upgrade that analysts see as a catalyst for the next wave of video game industry growth. More … Read more
Hello everyone, this is Cissy from Hong Kong. This week, the Hong Kong police are on high alert again as Wednesday marked the 36th anniversary of Beijing’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square in the Chinese capital. Although public mourning over the tragedy has diminished since the implementation of the National … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If your Netflix queue has started featuring more anime titles lately, it is no coincidence. Japanese animation movies and television series, aimed at adults as well as children, are moving from niche to mainstream. This … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A core tenet of showbiz — and capitalism — is to always leave them wanting more. Tech executives are now promising not just more, but everything. A rallying cry heard across Silicon Valley is that … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Climate change will “quadruple” the likelihood of conflict over scarce resources, the EU’s climate chief has warned. Wopke Hoekstra told the Financial Times that he had been contacted by senior military staff over the past … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital, is home to 23 of the country’s 28 companies in this year’s Financial Times ranking of the fastest-growing African companies. Odunayo Eweniyi, co-founder of fintech start-up PiggyVest, says companies flock to … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is a crowded field for the many Nigerian fintech start-ups competing for a slice of the market in Africa’s most populous nation, making it difficult to stand out. But that is not the case … Read more
Inside the collapse of Microsoft-backed tech unicorn Builder.ai
When Covid-19 hit, Abdelilah Hlallouch, a tech entrepreneur of Moroccan heritage who was born and raised in the Netherlands, seized the opportunity to fulfil a long-held ambition of launching a business in the country of his forebears. Like most other countries, Morocco closed its borders and suspended flights in response to the pandemic, implementing one … Read more
