Category: Technology & Digitalization

Capture investment opportunities created by megatrends

Interactive FT ranking: Europe’s Leading Start-up Hubs

1 UnternehmerTUM Germany 86.762 27 1 75 2002 2 Hexa Belgium 83.567 12 12 66 2011 3 SETsquared United Kingdom 82.694 88 51 52 2002 4 Founders Factory United Kingdom 82.394 28 46 22 2015 5 Growth Studio United Kingdom 82.265 6 14 1 2016 6 LSE Generate United Kingdom 81.847 23 36 29 2011…
Read more


13 March 2024 0

Big tech continues to rock

Meta will reward shareholders with its first-ever dividend and an additional $50bn in share buybacks, US President Joe Biden has approved financial sanctions on Israelis in the West Bank, and Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is hitting back after a Delaware court struck down his $56bn pay package. Plus, the EU has agreed a deal…
Read more


2 February 2024 0

Amazon predicts cloud growth will gain steam as earnings bounce back

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Amazon’s bumper holiday season and forecasts for accelerating cloud growth boosted its shares as earnings rebounded from last year. Sales at Amazon’s closely watched cloud computing division AWS, a critical profit driver for the business,…
Read more


2 February 2024 0

Tesla is five times bigger than all the public companies in Texas

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk has done another thing, which obliges us to do another thing. Here, per MainFT, is the latest thing: Elon Musk has said Tesla will “immediately” hold an investor vote on whether to move…
Read more


1 February 2024 0

Why AI hallucinations can be a good thing

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is founder of Sifted, an FT-backed site about European start-ups The tendency of generative artificial intelligence systems to “hallucinate” — or simply make stuff up — can be zany and sometimes scary, as…
Read more


1 February 2024 0

China chases AI memory and cooling tech heats up

Hi everyone! This is Cheng Ting-Fang sending greetings from Europe, where I am basking in the unexpected glow of winter sunshine. I recently embarked on a twin-city trip to Brussels and London, where I had the privilege of participating as a panellist in two dialogues between the European bloc and the Indo-Pacific region. The journey…
Read more


1 February 2024 0

Pokémon with guns and the democratisation of gaming

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If you have ever wondered what the corporate equivalent of tattooing the words “love” and “hate” on the knuckles of each fist would look like, The Pokémon Company has the answer. In a statement last…
Read more


1 February 2024 0

What the $55bn Tesla pay deal setback means for Elon Musk and his empire

A Delaware judge has ruled Elon Musk has to forfeit $55bn of Tesla share awards from a long-term pay package, causing a storm at the electric-car maker and threatening to distract its boss from troubles at the company and across his business ventures. “Never incorporate your company in the state of Delaware,” Musk commented on…
Read more


31 January 2024 0

Social media chiefs on defensive at US online child protection hearing

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The chief executives of five of the top social media platforms, including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Linda Yaccarino of X, were lambasted at a tense and at times emotional hearing in Congress over what lawmakers…
Read more


31 January 2024 0

Zuckerberg and Yaccarino on defensive ahead of online child protection hearing

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The chief executives of five of the top social media platforms, including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Linda Yaccarino of X, are striking a defensive posture ahead of a Wednesday hearing, where Congress will grill the…
Read more


31 January 2024 0