Twitter shares to be suspended as Musk closes in on takeover October 27, 2022 Twitter shares are set to be suspended from trading on the New York Stock Exchange tomorrow as Elon Musk closes in on a takeover of the firm after months of wrangling.
What’s driving the audiences behind Singapore’s crypto investment surge? October 26, 2022 Faraaz Marghoob, Group Strategy Director, BBH looks at what's driving the audiences behind Singapore’s crypto investment surge.
Representation in politics and media creates opportunities for a generation October 26, 2022 A few weeks ago, many of us were woken up by a curious occurrence: the presenters of BBC Radio 4 Today discussing their fellow presenter – Amol Rajan’s – challenge to the BBC Director General on accent bias among BBC News presenters. Whilst the conversation was all quite meta – with a small “m”- it [...]
Apple ups prices for music and TV for first time ever October 25, 2022 Apple has hiked its prices for its music and TV services for the first time ever this week, perhaps signalling things to come for its biggest streaming rivals. The tech giant said it would be increasing the price of Apple Music globally by $1 to $10.99, and breaking away from the standard ‘9.99’ price level [...]
Ryan Reynolds-owned Wrexham AFC criticises player for boots with ‘f*** the Tories’ on October 25, 2022 One of the oldest football clubs in the world has criticised one of its players for printing football boots with “f*** the Tories” on. Wrexham AFC, which was sensationally bought by US actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, said the boots “will not be worn tonight, or in any other” fixture, after striker Paul Mullin [...]
WhatsApp down globally, 40m Brits and hundreds of millions impacted around the world October 25, 2022 Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp went down for over an hour this morning in dozens of countries around the world, including the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Kenya, India, France and most of the United States and Canada. City A.M. can confirm that the outage was for both personal chats as well as group chats and hundreds [...]
Meta will be forced to sell Giphy as the CMA falls for the dangerous myth of ‘big is bad’ October 25, 2022 . Regulators around the world are intent on breaking up the largest tech companies, and now they have a model that works — even if it's dangerously detached from reality.
MPs slam ‘short-sighted and incredibly damaging’ tax-free shopping u-turn October 24, 2022 Cross-party MPs have warned that a u-turn on tax-free shopping for overseas tourists is “short-sighted and incredibly damaging” as the tourism sector hopes to recover post-Covid. In a new report, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee said Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s u-turn was hindering the sector. The committee said it felt the government was [...]
Something a little different from The MWek Company this week as our capital markets guy, Aj Rakhe, talks about a change in view in the landscape for ESG data. October 24, 2022 “A number of years ago, I bet that I was not the only one that turned the page, scrolled past or sighed and rolled my eyes at the mention of “ESG strategy”. I was adamant in my view (as someone who has worked within fixed income for most of my adult life) that an investor [...]
Strong and certain regulatory regimes are the backbone of investment in London October 24, 2022 If you have seen the movie “Wolf of Wall Street”, you will remember when the main character starts selling stocks in “Aerotyne International”: he claims it to be a cutting-edge high-tech firm, but in reality it is a workshop in a garden shed.