How Swatch hopes to recapture the MoonSwatch magic with new Blancpain collab September 5, 2023 The groundbreaking, plastic-fantastic, injection-moulded Swatch watch was a fashion-forward crutch for Switzerland’s ailing giants 40 years back. It bolstered household names like Omega, Longines, Rado, Tissot et al, all desperately consolidated by the late Nicholas Hayek following the devastation wrought in the Seventies by cheap, electronic quartz tech’ from East Asia. Ironically, at the hands [...]
Suzuki Jimny by Twisted review: Small and mighty September 4, 2023 Twisted Automotive has given the Suzuki Jimny 4x4 a powerful turbocharged boost. John Redfern gets behind the wheel.
London Stock Exchange boss Julia Hoggett: We’ll fight for everything September 4, 2023 The London Stock Exchange has had a tough couple of years. The bourse's boss Julia Hoggett reckons she can turn it around.
It took Big Tech firms just six days to pay off $2bn in fines, new data shows August 30, 2023 Big Tech firms paid over $2bn (£1.6bn) in fines this year. But new data shows it took them just over six days to pay them off.
The Notebook: Rupak Ghose on the FTSE’s struggles, Goldman Sachs morale and the ludicrousness of LinkedIn ‘extreme CEO’ routines August 30, 2023 The fintech advisor on reinvigorating the stock market, fintech's payments problem and why nobody actually gets up at 4am to meditate
Online Safety Bill: UK tech superpower dreams could be crushed by over-regulation August 24, 2023 New rules in the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) are set to come into force tomorrow, while the UK’s Online Safety Bill (OSB) remains mired in parliamentary proceedings, reigniting the regulation debate among tech companies and industry experts. The OSB, which aims to enhance online safety and security for users within the UK, is [...]
Wall Street cheers Nvidia results as AI chip designer lives up to expectations August 24, 2023 Hunger for Nvidia’s artificial intelligence (AI) chips has propelled its sales to $13.5bn (£10.6bn) in its second quarter, more than doubling from a year ago. The American tech behemoth’s data centre business drove most of the sales, soaring 170 per cent compared to the same period last year, up to $10.3bn (£8.1bn). Nvidia’s data centre business sells the company’s [...]
I see the Online Safety Bill as a digital double-edged sword August 23, 2023 Susie Violet Ward asks if the Online Safety Bill is nudging us closer to a digital dystopia like Orwell's 1984?
A gig in five years: An immersive dream or virtual insanity? August 23, 2023 The pandemic is over and live music is back. But as the music industry cheers the return of gigs, a number of tech companies are hoping to radically change the way we consume live events in the future.
Arm announces Nasdaq float in largest US IPO in 2 years August 22, 2023 SoftBank-owned chip designer Arm has confirmed it will float on New York’s Nasdaq next month in what will be the largest US initial public offering (IPO) in almost two years. Arm, which licenses its chip designs to tech giants like Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm, has said the offering is being led by Barclays, Goldman Sachs, [...]