Yoox-Net-a-Porter and Paul Smith join list of brands that have suspended ecommerce sales

Disruptions set to revive local manufacturing as designers look to avoid reliance on distant hubs

Medical community warns of dangers from use of cleaning agent as internal treatment

Coronavirus is highlighting more than the industry’s wasteful ways; its iniquitous supply chain is also in the spotlight

How the crisis will revolutionise brands, fashion weeks and personal style

Billionaire investor hits winning bets in global macro after closing to external money

Investors say ‘astounding’ number of unemployment claims in US had been priced into markets

Failed outsourcer’s work on Liverpool and Birmingham hospitals running years behind schedule

Middle East building downturn that began in 2015 shows little sign of abating

Alternative providers fear it will harm competition in market for loans to small business

Airline forecasts capacity will be almost wiped out in the second quarter

Company pledges two ships and two islands as collateral in upsized refinancing plan

Horseman Capital’s Russell Clark has sold his holdings in government bonds

President’s pet project holds line on output growth despite oil crisis and mammoth losses

North Dakota’s oil sector has ‘never been through a downturn like this’

Promises of huge growth are yet to materialise — but there’s huge potential

A new exchange traded commodity holds several advantages

Corporate bond links income and capital to inflation

The four-year bond will pay 7.5%

Tickets website has to navigate an overhaul of UK rail’s supporting infrastructure

Investor group led by the CofE launches database to track tailings dams after Brazil disaster

Case linked to 2012 nationalisation of oil company proves tricky for litigation funder

Brazilian jet maker to seek damages from US group, which counters it is within its rights to terminate deal

Take steps to improve your relationship with money and the role it plays in your life

The worldwide Covid-19 death toll rose by 6,365 on Tuesday, pushing the total through 200,000

Eurozone GDP in historic fall, millions more Americans file for unemployment, Shell cuts dividend for first time since second world war and UK's AstraZeneca combines with Oxford on a potential vaccine

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez says no other option remains but to maintain the state of alert

Germany's dominant export sector in record decline, South Korea may be forced to close bars and nightclubs after partygoer is found to have infected at least 14 people

Thousands attend military parade in Belarus even as virus spreads rapidly in neighbouring Russia, UK airline industry warns of huge blow if travel quarantine is launched and Seoul closes down bars and clubs in wake of new cluster

Pharma and chemicals group says it will ‘defend itself vigorously’ amid mounting cases

Rise in plaintiffs comes as German chemicals group reports 19% jump in sales

Zeitgold has raised a Series B round of $29.2 million (€27 million). Overall, the company has raised more than $54 million (€50 million). The company is building a software platform for small companies to automate bookkeeping as much as possible. Vintage Investment Partners is leading today’s round with existing investors Battery Ventures, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, […]

AskRobin, an Estonia-founded fintech that operates a financial services marketplace for “underbanked” customers in Latin America, has picked up $1.7 million in funding. The seed round is backed by VC funds Change Ventures, Vereeni Early Stage Fund, BENE Asia Capital, and Lemonade Stand. In addition, a number of tech entrepreneurs from Estonia participated, such as […]

Meet Kairn, a new startup coming out of stealth today with a sneak peek of what the company has been working on. As Wunderlist shuts down, Kairn wants to prove that there’s still room for an innovative task-management service. “We’re building a task manager that is smart and focused on capturing tasks,” co-founder and CEO […]

Deep Render, a London startup and spin-out of Imperial College that is applying machine learning to image compression, has raised £1.6 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Pentech, with participation from Speedinvest. Founded in mid-2017 by Arsalan Zafar and Chri Besenbruch, who met while studying Computer Science at Imperial College London, Deep Render […]

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

Assigning an economic value to life is taboo — but we must confront the trade-offs

Byju’s, an education learning startup in India that has seen a surge in its popularity in recent weeks amid the coronavirus outbreak, is in talks to raise as much as $400 million in fresh capital at a $10 billion valuation, said three people familiar with the matter. The additional capital would be part of the […]

The anti-Brexit movement wasted energy on negative campaigning and parliamentary wrecking tactics

Security and climate change will be high on Ursula von der Leyen’s list of priorities

Once the UK accepted trade friction, everything changed

Without a co-ordinated response, national stimulus policies will end up increasing imbalances

Boris Johnson dives into the transition period

Yesterday, Samsung announced that the Galaxy Flip Z sold out online. What, precisely, that means, is hard to say, of course, without specific numbers from the company. But it’s probably enough to make the company bullish about its latest wade into the foldable waters, in the wake of last year’s Fold — let’s just say […]

Another on-demand transport app is making a move into payments to expand the existing relationship with its customers (and subsequent margins that it makes from serving them). Bird today announced the launch of Bird Pay, a service that will let people use its app to purchase items from local participating businesses alongside renting scooters. The service […]

Another week in quarantine. As the world adjusts to working from home under mandatory stay-at-home orders, hackers are keeping busy. Microsoft said this week that coronavirus-related attacks are on the rise but still make up just a fraction of the overall malicious activity. Cybersecurity companies seem to be faring mostly well — in part thanks […]