Category: Technology & Digitalization

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Swedish gaming break-up powers up stock for struggling investors

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sweden is Europe’s capital markets winner of the past decade, with more companies listing than in Germany, Italy or France. Games maker Embracer is doing its bit to maintain that trend: it announced plans on…
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22 April 2024 0

Debt-strapped European games group Embracer plans 3-way split

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Embracer Group, the Tomb Raider developer that became Europe’s most valuable video games business after a rapid series of acquisitions, plans to split into three listed companies as it battles to regain investor confidence. Lars…
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22 April 2024 0

Huawei goes ‘007’ and TSMC gets a grant

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11 April 2024 0

Why dumbing down your house could be a smart move

By Eloise Hendy Ever since the launch of Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa in 2014, smoothly subservient smart home devices have become an accepted part of domestic life. Preheat your oven on your journey home, let your fridge order food, program a robot to vacuum the living room — why not? And with a fully-integrated smart…
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1 April 2024 0

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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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1 February 2024 0