Sam Torrance: Nicolai Hojgaard is destined to be a world beater February 7, 2022 Big-money tournaments elsewhere in the Middle East may have attracted the headlines but the best golf story of the weekend for me was Nicolai Hojgaard. The young Dane and his twin brother Rasmus are going to be world-beaters and Nicolai took the next step on that journey with an extraordinary victory at the Ras Al [...]
Exclusive: Railsbank CEO on finance’s ‘iTunes moment’, ripping up the rule book and the might of Amazon February 7, 2022 British fintech Railsbank is eyeing up ‘unicorn’ status as it looks to raise $100m funding which would value the firm at over $1bn. It follows a $70m funding injection last year from backers including Anthos Capital and Outrun Ventures, which bosses had suggested had left the firm with a valuation of close to $1bn. Time [...]
Inside the content creators’ industry, not everything is as glossy as it seems February 7, 2022 Say “influencer economy” to most people and there remains a temptation to shrug it off as a handful of Youtube stars making a few grand here and there for make-up videos. In truth, the influencer economy has become mainstream – almost 50m people around the world consider themselves “content creators”. That spans from impossibly youthful [...]
Six Nations: England cannot dip favourites tag two weeks running February 7, 2022 England’s first round Six Nations defeat at the hands of Scotland on Saturday was one which initially played into Eddie Jones’s well-worn line of the Calcutta Cup rivals being “red hot favourites”. But in a 20-17 loss which sent England back south of the border with their tails between their legs, Jones’s side looked a [...]
Sky Bet owner Flutter sets sights on National Lottery takeover February 6, 2022 The race to take over the National Lottery, one of the UK’s most lucrative public sector contracts, is heating up in the final stretch.
Make way for Queen Camilla as monarch gives thumbs up for Duchess of Cornwall to take title February 6, 2022 The Queen, who has become the first British sovereign to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, has called on the public to support Prince Charles and The Duchess of Cornwall when the end of her reign eventually marks the start of her son’s. In the hugely significant intervention shaping the future of the monarchy, the Queen expressed [...]
Great band, absurd name… maybe we need a crypto supergroup February 4, 2022 It's time, says Monty, for the crypto world to have a huge event - a monumental gig on the scale of a memorable concert.
Letters: Time to take my Wordle for it February 4, 2022 [Re:New York Times acquires Wordle for seven figure sum, Feb 1] The acquisition of Wordle by The New York Times’ is the culmination of the game’s meteoric rise. But how did we reach the point where a game made by one man for his fiancée was sold for millions of dollars? Wordle’s success can be [...]
Neil Hopkins: Why TikTok is big news for the Six Nations February 4, 2022 Kids, eh? On one hand, Alan Hansen reckoned you couldn’t win anything with them, on the other, The Who figured they’re alright. The dilemma facing almost every sport that isn’t football is how to attract younger audiences without alienating what the European Super League disparagingly labelled “legacy fans”. As the Six Nations looms, rugby union’s [...]
Amazon’s sales forecast misses estimates as it hikes Prime membership in US February 3, 2022 Amazon.com said it raising the price of its Prime subscriptions, as it looks to offset higher shipping costs and wages even after beating profit expectations for the holiday quarter. Shares rose 17 per cent in after-hours trade, after dropping nearly eight per cent before the market’s close as part of a broader technology stock sell-off. [...]