Warren Buffett turns record profit – despite lashings of global headwinds February 25, 2023 Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Saturday reported its highest-ever annual operating profit, even as foreign currency losses and lower gains from investments caused fourth-quarter profit to fall. Buffett called 2022 a “good year” for Berkshire in his annual shareholder letter after the conglomerate’s dozens of businesses generated $30.8 billion of profit despite rising inflation and [...]
Tokenising the casual gaming world through crypto and blockchain February 24, 2023 Piotr Blazewicz, CEO of CoinClash Games explains how he's using blockchain technology to build trust in his games.
Accessibility, Customer Focus and Inclusivity: Refreshing disability strategies February 23, 2023 DiverCity® Podcast · Accessibility, Customer Focus and Inclusivity: Refreshing disability strategies In this episode, host Julia Streets is joined by Toby Mildon, Diversity & Inclusion Architect and founder of Mildon, a consultancy and advisory business, and Johnny Timpson OBE, principal of Johnny Timpson Consulting and Non-Executive Chair of specialist military insurance brokerage Absolute Military. Together they [...]
Swarm launches tradable on-chain stocks and bonds February 21, 2023 Regulated blockchain platform Swarm today launched a world-first public investment offering for Apple, Tesla, and two US Treasury Bonds on-chain.
Meta turns to paid-for verification as data reveals privacy concerns among UK users February 20, 2023 Facebook and Instagram owner Meta will soon role out a paid-for verification model, copying a similar move by rival social media platform Twitter. In a bid to claw back credibility, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg revealed he was launching a new subscription service, which promised more personal security for users, for between £10-12.50 a month. [...]
Explainer: A highway to subscriber-only social media February 20, 2023 If it’s good enough for Musk, it’s good enough for Mark Zuckerberg apparently.
The Musk effect: Meta testing Facebook and Instagram subscription service for £10 a month February 20, 2023 Meta is testing a new subscription service that would let Facebook and Instagram users pay for a verified account – taking a page out of Elon Musk and Twitter’s book. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta Verified on his social media accounts on Sunday. Testing will begin in New Zealand and Australia this week and will roll [...]
Goldman Sachs boss admits job cull should have been made sooner when ‘slowdown’ was apparent February 13, 2023 David Solomon told a gathering of Goldman Sachs executives that he should have cut jobs and slowed the investment bank’s hiring of new staff earlier in 2022 . Solomon was reported by the Financial Times as telling colleagues he had been too slow to reduce Goldman’s headcount. “As the environment was growing more complicated in [...]
Super Bowl 2023: The three major takeaways from Rihanna’s performance February 13, 2023 So the Super Bowl happened overnight in the States, a type of US football, but eyes are really on the halftime acts. This year it was Rihanna. The big sporting event typically hauls in the biggest musicians on the planet to play at halftime. Previous years have welcomed Beyonce, The Weeknd and Shakira to do [...]
‘Lavish’ spending culture of government ministers including £345,000 ‘restaurant and bar’ bill revealed February 13, 2023 Ministers are accused of overseeing a “lavish spending” culture in Whitehall with taxpayers’ money wasted on luxury items, after Labour analysis of government procurement cards. Concerns were raised over alcohol and dining purchases by the Labour Party including almost £345,000 by foreign office officials in 2021 under the heading “restaurants and bars”, as well as [...]