World’s biggest crypto influencers revealed, with a surprise at number one June 3, 2021 The list of the world’s most influential people in cryptocurrency has been revealed – with a surprise in the top slot, thanks to the medium of TikTok.
3 Companies that are actively hiring in London right now June 3, 2021 As we all start returning to a normal, covid-free life, a lot of us may start looking to make some changes. Especially when it comes to our careers. For the last 18 months or so, we’ve all been doing our best to keep our heads above water, but now feels like a great time to [...]
Matchroom leaves Sky Sports for DAZN in five-year, £100m deal – but Anthony Joshua fights aren’t included June 3, 2021 Boxing promoter Matchroom has signed a deal with DAZN to show its fights exclusively on the sports streaming platform in the UK and Ireland. The five-year agreement, reported to be worth more than £100m, begins in July when Matchroom’s contract with Sky Sports ends. The deal also cements the relationship between Matchroom and DAZN, which [...]
Door to door, but digital: Avon CEO on how a historic firm gets with the times June 3, 2021 Think of Avon and the image that emerges is probably a pretty wholesome one – an Avon lady, or perhaps an Avon man, presenting their make-up wares in a pleasantly spruced-up living room. In your mind, it’s probably set in black and white too. But times are changing. The cosmetics firm made its mark across [...]
AMC cinema shares skyrocket as it woos traders with free popcorn June 3, 2021 Shares in cinema chain AMC nearly doubled yesterday, extending a strong rally and marking a potential return to the meme stock craze that roiled markets earlier this year. The cinema group’s shares closed up 95 per cent at $62.55 — a new record high. Its market value is now more than $28bn, more than Viacom [...]
Travel abroad will be safer this summer and the UK’s green list update should reflect this June 2, 2021 Travel abroad will be safer this summer and the UK's green list update should reflect this
Sponsors and sports must do more to protect the mental health of athletes like Naomi Osaka June 2, 2021 Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open on mental health grounds should come as a surprise to no one, given the conversation around the wellbeing of elite athletes. The four-times grand slam winner may be one of the more reserved tennis players on the women’s circuit, so to speak openly about her depression and anxiety [...]
Reality TV stars’ Instagram debt ads banned by watchdog June 2, 2021 Instagram posts by three reality TV stars promoting a debt advice service claiming it could wipe out 85 per cent of people’s debt have been banned by the advertising watchdog. Geordie Shore’s Chloe Ferry, Helen Briggs from Ex On The Beach and Towie’s Myles Barnett, who have more than 4m followers between them, all posted [...]
Shark bait: Elon Musk tweet sends Baby Shark shares soaring June 2, 2021 Shares in a major investor in the company behind Baby Shark soared today after Elon Musk took to Twitter to say the viral kids’ song “crushes all”. Samsung Publishing saw its shares climb as much as 10 per cent following the tweet to their highest level in more than a month. The South Korean company [...]
The damning case against China over Covid-19 deserves proper attention June 1, 2021 As John Stuart Mill so eloquently wrote: “the only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.” Fortified by this moral admonition, I went on to write an April 2020 piece in CapX, charging the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with direct culpability in the spread of [...]