Slack files formal EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft July 22, 2020 Slack has filed a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission, arguing its bundling of its Teams messaging service and Office 365 is anti-competitive. Workplace messaging app Slack is a rival of Teams, which also offers video conferencing services. The complaint, filed this afternoon, accuses Microsoft of “illegal and anti-competitive practice” in abusing its market [...]
The City View: Modwenna Rees-Mogg on angel investing July 21, 2020 Subscribe to The City View Podcast: Apple / Google / Spotify / RSS Today Andy Silvester is joined by Modwenna Rees-Mogg, founder of AngelNews and the Pluralists’ Club. Modwenna discusses the angel investing ecosystem, how it’s been hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the steps Government can take with the ‘future fund’ to ensure the UK remains a world leader. They also [...]
Apple to be carbon neutral for its entire business by 2030 July 21, 2020 Apple has said it will remove all carbon emissions across its supply chain and products by 2030, having already become carbon neutral in its corporate operations. The tech giant said its thousands of suppliers will be required to be carbon neutral within the next decade. It aims to achieve 75 per cent of this goal [...]
Top 10 billionaires: Jeff Bezos boosts fortune by $13bn in one day July 21, 2020 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos leads a list of the world’s top 10 billionaires after seeing his personal fortune jump $13bn (£10.2bn) yesterday, in what is believed to be the largest single-day individual wealth jump of all time. Bezos’ net worth has swelled $74bn this year to $189.3bn, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index. The Amazon [...]
Effective and efficient capital markets in an increasingly digitised world July 21, 2020 The past few months have seen a real shift in the way we are all living and working. Many of the previously accepted ways of doing things are suddenly no more, and the appetite for doing things differently and embracing new modus operandi is now rife, globally. We are witnessing a real paradigm shift, and [...]
Blockchain technology will only reach its full potential through industry cooperation July 21, 2020 Blockchain has come a long way since I first entered the space in 2011. Back then, altcoins were all just forks of Bitcoin, the same code with some cosmetic differences here and there. These days, we have multiple generations of blockchain with entirely different systems, each with varying and exciting capabilities. There has been a [...]
The City View: ‘Charlemagne’ on the EU July 21, 2020 Subscribe to The City View Podcast: Apple / Google / Spotify / RSS Today Andy Silvester talks to Duncan Robinson, Charlemagne columnist for The Economist. Based in Brussels, Duncan gives us an insight into the changing relationships within the EU now that the UK has left, the role of member states in a post-pandemic world, and the future of continental euroscepticism. Andy [...]
The City View: Jo Tanner on the Downing Street spin machine July 20, 2020 Subscribe to The City View Podcast: Apple / Google / Spotify / RSS In today’s episode, Andy Silvester is joined by Jo Tanner, Chief Executive of iNHouse Communications, one of the capital’s most effective campaigning operations. Andy and Jo talk about the government’s communications strategy around Covid-19, whether ‘work from home’ is all it’s cracked up to be and what certainty Downing [...]
Twitter says around 130 people targeted in bitcoin scam hack July 17, 2020 Twitter has said around 130 accounts were targeted by hackers in an incident that led to the accounts of high profile figures such as US presidential candidate Joe Biden posting messages asking for bitcoin. The hack has caused embarrassment for Twitter and raised questions about its safety ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Tesla owner [...]
Contact tracing is a legal minefield for businesses July 17, 2020 In the age of Big Data, where the always-on digital assistant and ever more intrusive geo-tracking technology reign, it is perhaps inevitable that our efforts to control Covid-19 seem to depend on developing technology to monitor individuals’ movements. Every wave of innovation that has birthed these technologies has brought with it fresh regulatory concern. The [...]