Receive free Lex updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Lex news every morning. In Japan’s gaming sector, Nintendo and Sony’s PlayStation are seen as the typical combatants. But what of stalwart local rival Capcom? Its successful Street Fighter franchise, a martial arts tournament game launched in 1987, means…
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Receive free Lex updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Lex news every morning. Thirteen years ago, Square disrupted payments processing with a simple dongle that merchants could attach to smartphones and tablets to accept card payments. The device, a small white square card reader, was then an instant…
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Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Manufacturing groups have hit out at Rishi Sunak’s watering down of some of Britain’s net zero emission targets, describing the move as “a huge setback” to the sector. The prime minister’s decision sent…
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Receive free Climate change updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Climate change news every morning. Fossil fuel demand must fall by a quarter by the end of this decade if governments want to limit the rise in global warming to 1.5C since the pre-industrial period, the International Energy…
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Receive free Climate legislation updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Climate legislation news every morning. This article is an on-site version of our Europe Express newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday and Saturday morning Good morning. European U-turns on…
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Receive free Games industry updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Games industry news every morning. Streaming will transform the video games industry just like Netflix revolutionised television and cinema, according to the head of Ubisoft, after the French company struck a transformational cloud-gaming deal with Microsoft. Ubisoft, the…
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Receive free Employment updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Employment news every morning. For several years now, politicians have insisted that the road to net zero is paved with jobs. “When I think climate, I think jobs,” US president Joe Biden is fond of saying. Not just any…
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You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player This is County Offaly, Ireland, about 90 minutes outside of Dublin, and I’m here on my family’s farm. I grew up here, as did my father, my grandfather, my great grandmother, and generations before them. Irish farms are often passed down family lines. But farming is…
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People in Kikuyo have a term to encapsulate a new era of traffic jams, skyrocketing property prices and battles for staff: “the TSMC shock”. The small Japanese town and its economy have been radically transformed since Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company began construction of its first factory in Japan five months ago. “TSMC’s arrival was a…
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Receive free Climate change updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Climate change news every morning. President Emmanuel Macron has laid out France’s road map to more than halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, but stopped short of bolder moves such as a gas boiler ban that could have…
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