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Financial Times · 06/04/2026 00:13 EDT

A monthly series that examines how the legal ecosystem uses new technologies to serve fast-changing business needs. This time: how legal tech stalwarts plan to maintain their service to clients as challengers mount incursions Read more ›

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Chinese tech entrepreneurs go on global offensive

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Financial Times · 05/14/2023 20:30 EDT

Success of TikTok and Shein inspires start-ups to look abroad for growth Read more ›

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman nears $100mn funding for Worldcoin crypto project

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Financial Times · 05/14/2023 07:00 EDT

Start-up plans to create global identification system through iris scans to enable access to free global currency Read more ›

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Beware the ‘bad-ish’ actor when it comes to AI

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Financial Times 2 place · 05/13/2023 19:01 EDT

Commercial pressures will result in tech weapons being available to cause mayhem Read more ›

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US states’ social media laws to protect kids create challenges for platforms

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Financial Times 2 place · 05/13/2023 09:00 EDT

A patchwork of restrictions that aim to give parents more control pose logistical and technological hurdles Read more ›

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Software AG: Silver Lake and Bain square up in private equity stand-off

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Financial Times 2 place · 05/12/2023 13:03 EDT

Competing approaches for German enterprise software group could lead to a stalemate Read more ›

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GM should not force Apple CarPlay out of the front seat

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Financial Times 3 place · 05/12/2023 13:00 EDT

The carmaker wants to block the iPhone manufacturer’s software from occupying the dashboard on some new EVs Read more ›

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Elon Musk names Linda Yaccarino as new Twitter chief

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Financial Times 2 place · 05/12/2023 12:08 EDT

Former NBCUniversal advertising executive will take the helm as billionaire attempts to turn platform into ‘everything app’ Read more ›

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Brian Chesky: I want Airbnb to become a physical social network

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Financial Times 3 place · 05/12/2023 10:25 EDT

CEO says the accommodation booking platform can be a way for people to make real connections — unlike social media Read more ›

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Autonomy founder Mike Lynch extradited to US

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Financial Times 3 place · 05/12/2023 04:00 EDT

Entrepreneur faces fraud charges over software group’s accounts Read more ›

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Schroders hits out at Silver Lake’s €2.6bn German tech deal

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Financial Times · 05/12/2023 00:00 EDT

Top investor cites conflict of interest as US private equity firms compete for Software AG Read more ›

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Silver Lake’s playbook attracts scrutiny in Europe

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Financial Times · 05/12/2023 00:00 EDT

Plus, SoftBank nears a deal to sell Fortress and Adani Group boosts its defences after being hit by a short seller Read more ›

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Germany’s new chip factories: a bet on the future or waste of money?

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Financial Times · 05/12/2023 00:00 EDT

The Scholz government is spending billions subsidising the country’s semiconductor industry. Some believe it does not make economic sense Read more ›

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Closed for business? Sizing up Big Tech’s UK temper tantrum

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Financial Times · 05/11/2023 23:00 EDT

Microsoft and Activision’s fury over blocking of merger by regulator has rightly provoked little angst Read more ›

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Elon Musk says he has found a new Twitter CEO

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Financial Times 2 place · 05/11/2023 16:55 EDT

Billionaire does not name his pick but says she will take over in six weeks’ time Read more ›

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Revolut hit by departures of CFO and UK banking chief

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Financial Times · 05/11/2023 12:12 EDT

Exits of Mikko Salovaara and James Radford follow last year’s exodus of executives Read more ›

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Babylon shareholders wiped out in restructuring deal

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Financial Times · 05/11/2023 11:58 EDT

Move will see the British healthcare start-up return to private ownership Read more ›

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The likely winners of the generative AI gold rush

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Financial Times · 05/11/2023 09:10 EDT

Small, specialist models that are cheap to train and fast to run may win out over the broader Big Tech offerings Read more ›

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Revolut finance chief leaves fintech ‘for personal reasons’ after 2 years

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Financial Times · 05/11/2023 09:07 EDT

Mikko Salovaara’s departure adds to last year’s exodus of executives from the group’s UK banking team Read more ›

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SoftBank: $39bn loss is a monument to Son’s risk management flaws

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Financial Times · 05/11/2023 08:44 EDT

High hopes for stakes in Arm and ByteDance may prove misplaced as valuations falter Read more ›

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It’s time social media platforms unfriended fraudsters

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Financial Times · 05/11/2023 07:45 EDT

Most UK fraud originates online and AI brings a frightening new dimension to scams Read more ›

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