Cristiano Ronaldo can cash in from Saudi Pro League streaming initiative September 17, 2026 The Saudi Pro League is giving Cristiano Ronaldo another way to top up his £170m salary by incentivising players to promote livestreams of matches via social media. The SPL’s “Share and Earn” initiative will allow players and influencers to share links to broadcasts of the league, whose stars also include Sadio Mane, Gabriel Martinelli and [...]
Month-old Deepmind spinout nears $4bn on ‘future capability’ bet September 17, 2026 A British AI startup founded just last month by three former Google Deepmind researchers is nearing a $4bn (£2.9bn) valuation – despite having no product or website. Emulate is in advanced talks to raise as much as $700m in a seed funding round led by Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners in a deal that [...]
Celtic and when does financial prudence become sporting underinvestment? September 17, 2026 By most conventional measures, Celtic should be a model of how to run a football club. According to the club’s latest accounts, Celtic generated £143.6m of revenue and £33.9m of profit after tax, while finishing the year with £77.3m in cash. Shareholders have benefited too. According to FactSet, Celtic shares have appreciated approximately 153 per [...]
Next boss Wolfson tells Healey: ‘You can’t spend your way out of a crisis’ September 17, 2026 Lord Wolfson, Next’s chief executive, has urged Chancellor John Healey to cut spending at next month’s Budget, warning, “you can’t spend your way out of a funding crisis”. The retail boss has urged the government to clamp down on spending, avoid further tax hikes and slash planning red tape to boost economic growth. He told [...]
Beauty Tech shares glow as boss brushes off ‘cheap’ rivals September 17, 2026 Beauty Tech Group boss Laurence Newman has brushed off competition from ‘cheap beauty devices’ after the London-listed firm more than tripled its first-half profit. Shares in the owner of Currentbody Skin rose more than 13 per cent to 395p on Thursday after revenue climbed 44.3 per cent to £79.7m in the six months to June. [...]
Former Colombian President Iván Duque Appointed to Advance ICC and Carbon Measures’ Global Product-Level Carbon Accounting Initiative September 17, 2026 Duque will chair the ICC & Carbon Measures Technical Expert Panel Advisory Group, bringing policy, business and practitioner perspectives into the next phase of their work.
ABZ Innovation Opens One of Europe’s Largest Civilian Drone Manufacturing Facilities September 17, 2026 New facility in Szentendre, Hungary strengthens Europe's manufacturing capacity for agricultural and industrial drone technology
‘Hound of Hades’ private equity firm pursues Aldermore September 17, 2026 Private equity firm Cerberus has teamed up with Warburg Pincus on a joint bid for alternative lender Aldermore, City AM can reveal, in a sale process that could value the company at more than £1.4bn. The US private equity firm, named after the Hound of Hades, a three-headed dog that guards the gates of the [...]
Beauty Tech Group profit triples as LED masks boom September 17, 2026 The Beauty Tech Group has more than tripled its first-half profit as booming demand for at-home beauty devices helped sales jump more than 40 per cent. The London-listed owner of Currentbody Skin, ZIIP Beauty and Tria Laser reported pre-tax profit of £17.5m for the six months to the end of June, up from £5m a [...]
Next lifts profit targets but sounds alarm on ‘vicious circle’ of high tax and low growth September 17, 2026 Next has lifted its profit target again following “much better” than expected trading in the first half of the year as the retailer was spurred on by booming international sales and record summer temperatures. The FTSE 100 retail giant saw sales across its group jump by nine per cent in the six months to July, [...]