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What happens when an online game dies?

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Financial Times 2 place · 07/04/2026 00:00 EDT

Games such as ‘Destiny 2’ are more than entertainment products. They are social spaces where friendships, identities and rituals are built Read more ›

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Amazon launches home-patrolling robot Astro

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Financial Times · 09/28/2021 15:23 EDT

Company touts AI advancements but privacy advocates warn it could raise risks for consumers Read more ›

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AutoStore: warehouse robotics group puts its valuation on a high shelf

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Financial Times · 09/28/2021 12:59 EDT

SoftBank-backed company has reason to be confident as listing could be Norway’s biggest IPO in two decades Read more ›

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Where do you go from SimCity and The Sims? Into the human psyche

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Financial Times · 09/28/2021 07:25 EDT

Creator Will Wright on his ambitious new project — and why he doesn’t see anything he has made as a game Read more ›

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Why do businesses keep trying to find a ‘magic’ playbook?

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Financial Times · 09/28/2021 07:00 EDT

Companies should be data-centric from day one and write their own script as they look to scale Read more ›

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Blue Prism agrees £1.1bn takeover by Vista

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Financial Times · 09/28/2021 06:19 EDT

Private equity group ends British tech hope’s turbulent five years on public markets Read more ›

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Australia’s antitrust body calls for laws to break Google’s ad dominance

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Financial Times · 09/28/2021 03:36 EDT

Regulator’s demand follows clash this year with big tech over payments for online news Read more ›

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SoftBank-backed robot warehouse group AutoStore plans Oslo IPO

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Financial Times · 09/28/2021 02:24 EDT

Norwegian manufacturer of automated storage and retrieval systems set to list next month Read more ›

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Time to turn off Facebook’s digital fire hose

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Financial Times · 09/28/2021 00:00 EDT

How much control does the tech giant give users over ads? The answer, despite its protestations, seems to be hardly any Read more ›

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Galactic Britain boldly goes into space

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Financial Times · 09/27/2021 14:48 EDT

Ive’s electric Ferrari project, SoftBank bankrolls Dice, Mobile Phone Museum calling Read more ›

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Small banks provide big opportunity for fintechs

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Financial Times · 09/27/2021 14:00 EDT

Plus, ‘Buy now, pay later’ debt is a hit on Wall Street and a Q&A with the co-founder of Paris-based roboadviser Cashbee Read more ›

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Facebook suspends plan to launch Instagram Kids app as critics circle

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Financial Times · 09/27/2021 11:37 EDT

Opposition to new photo-sharing platform for under-13s gathers momentum in Washington Read more ›

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Facebook suspends plan to launch Instagram Kids app as critics circle

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Financial Times 2 place · 09/27/2021 09:54 EDT

Opposition to new photo-sharing platform for children under 13 gathers momentum in Washington Read more ›

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Cryptocurrency/China: loophole closure is bad for exchanges

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Financial Times · 09/27/2021 07:13 EDT

Huobi cannot expect to offset fully its client losses Read more ›

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Cryptocurrency exchanges start cutting off Chinese users

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Financial Times 3 place · 09/27/2021 04:23 EDT

Overseas operators restrict services after Beijing bans all digital currency activities Read more ›

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SoftBank bets on live music revival by backing UK-based ticketing app

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Financial Times · 09/27/2021 00:49 EDT

Japanese group and ex-Apple designer Tony Fadell invest in Dice as ticket sales signal recovery Read more ›

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Indonesian tech start-ups abandon US Spac deal plans in favour of going local

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Financial Times · 09/26/2021 19:30 EDT

Blockbuster domestic IPO of ecommerce group Bukalapak ‘fired the starting gun’ for fundraising Read more ›

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China goes on an intellectual property offensive

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Financial Times · 09/26/2021 18:00 EDT

Enhanced IP legislation means foreign companies need to be ready for lawsuits Read more ›

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Europe’s instant grocery start-ups deliver frantic summer of dealmaking

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Financial Times · 09/26/2021 05:52 EDT

Gorillas and Flink try to take on Getir in a merry-go-round of funding and merger talks Read more ›

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Mobile phone’s ‘golden era’ preserved in new museum

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Financial Times 1 place · 09/24/2021 23:00 EDT

From brick-sized models to Wall Street’s ‘greed is good’ device, the archive celebrates the world’s most prolific consumer device Read more ›

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Jason Robins: ‘single-minded’ in his global ambition for DraftKings

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Financial Times 1 place · 09/24/2021 19:00 EDT

Founder of fantasy sports start-up raises the stakes with £18bn bid for UK rival Entain Read more ›

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