Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chinese technology giant Tencent is taking a €1.2bn stake in a new spin-off from Ubisoft, as the struggling French games developer attempts to shore up its balance sheet. The deal values a new subsidiary that … Read more
Italian entrepreneur Alessandro Seina first stepped into the sharing economy more than a decade ago, listing a family-owned Rome flat on Airbnb. When his guests needed a place to leave their luggage for a few hours before or after their stay, Seina offered the nearby office of his brand design consultancy. But he soon realised … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The BBC has dropped plans to sell adverts on some of its podcasts in the UK over popular streaming platforms such as Spotify after an industry backlash. The national broadcaster’s commercial arm, BBC Studios, will … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fusion energy start-up Marvel Fusion has raised €113mn in new funding as Germany steps up its efforts to compete in the global race to create zero-carbon power by combining atoms. The Munich-based company has completed … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. CoreWeave is planning to slash the size and value of its initial public offering and bring in Nvidia as a large investor in the deal, another sign of wavering investor demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Well, there it is: CoreWeave is planning to slash the size of its initial public offering and bring in Nvidia as an anchor investor, another sign of wavering investor demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure on Wall … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Just Stop Oil, the climate activist group, has said it is ending its protest campaign after its demand to end new oil and gas became UK government policy. The group, which gained notoriety for throwing … Read more
Hello! This is Lauly, saying hi from the warm weather in Taipei. I can’t believe it’s already been weeks since I returned from Barcelona covering the annual Mobile World Congress, one of the biggest tech exhibitions in a year. As my colleague Annie Cheng Ting-Fang mentioned in her newsletter, we had to take cold showers … Read more
Imagine a caravan maker. It sells caravans to a caravan park that only buys one type of caravan. The caravan park leases much of its land from another caravan park. The first caravan park has two big customers. One of the big customers is the caravan maker. The other big customer is the caravan maker’s … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Airlines myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Europe’s airlines have called on the EU to pull back on its environmental rules, in a significant shift in tone for an industry which is struggling to decarbonise. Speaking on behalf of 17 airlines, the bosses … Read more