IEA expects global consumption will decline 8% this year in largest drop since second world war

French energy group makes emissions pledge as first-quarter profits drop 35%

Marathon cuts capital spending by $1.4bn in anticipation of 30% drop in output

Two experts debate whether shift to low carbon can push forward amid economic stress

Phoenix Commodities seeks debt restructuring after racking up $450m of currency hedge losses

Cardholders will receive 3 per cent cashback on fuel

Three-year savings account will pay immediate returns straight away

Bond pays out 105 per cent on RPI

New current account offers 3 per cent interest and cashback on bills

1% cashback for mortgage customers with 123 account

Covid-19 pandemic increases problems for retirement schemes already in deficit

A third of self-employed reported working reduced hours during the first two weeks of lockdown

Covert and overt ways to interest children in learning about money

As numbers and statistics come to the fore, can we boost national numeracy?

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

Pledges to donate Covid-19 test kits pour in from groups including Vale and Petrobras

Bank blames low-interest environment and impact of banking regulation

Surprise measures on pensions and investing for children lay in the chancellor’s red box

New daily cases of Covid-19 around the globe rose by the lowest amount in 12 days as 73,858 diagnoses were confirmed on Sunday, bringing the total to 2.93m

Deal to create one of world’s biggest chemicals groups beset by management clashes

Amid charges of greenwashing from activists, the private company is investing in football, cycling and other ventures

Products vital to combat coronavirus could become more expensive and scarce

A number of UK entrepreneurs have banded together to survey Angels about their investment strategy. The initiative comes in the wake of the UK government’s “Future Fund” for startups, which has been criticized as being inadequate for the needs of Angel and Seed-stage startups. The group hopes the survey will give the UK early-stage investment […]

Countingup, the business current account that “automates” your accounting, has raised £4 million in self-described bridge funding. Leading the round is ING Ventures, with co-investment from Triple Point, CVentures, and BiG Start Ventures. Founded by Tim Fouracre, who previously founded cloud accounting software Clear Books, and now boasting 20,000 business customers, Countingup’s long term vision […]

Cuckoo Internet is a new U.K. startup that aims to disrupt the U.K. broadband market. It has now raised £470,000 in seed funding, which includes funding from work.fund, a new Silicon Valley fund operator fund led by Bart Macdonald (Sapling founder). Other investors include Lorin van Nuland (early investor in Betterment), Edward Campbell-Harris (Bulb early […]

Taxpayers ought to receive a share of the upside after big business recovers

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

Rich countries need to fund infectious disease treatments properly

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

Private lawsuits are a vital tool for upholding standards in the free market system

Under lockdown, vulnerable families are imprisoned in a cage of terror, stress and abuse

WhatsApp, which began testing its mobile payments feature in India two years ago, could offer at least one more financial service to people in its biggest market. In a filing with the local regulator in India, the Facebook -owned messaging platform has listed credit as one of the areas it will pursue in the country. […]

The coronavirus pandemic is significantly slowing the growth of Facebook’s ads business, but investors seem pleased with the company’s performance in Q1 after Facebook released its earnings report Wednesday. The company beat Wall Street expectations on revenues, sharing that they had made $17.74 billion while falling short on earnings per share at $1.71. The company […]

Researchers at NYU have identified hundreds of groups of Instagram users, some with thousands of members, that systematically exchange likes and comments in order to game the service’s algorithms and boost visibility. In the process, they also trained machine learning agents to identify whether a post has been juiced in this way. “Pods,” as they’ve […]

Facebook is today rolling out a tool that will allow users in the U.S. and Canada to export their Facebook photos and videos to Google Photos. This data portability tool was first introduced in Ireland in December, and has since been made available to other international markets. To use the feature, Facebook users will need […]

Good morning and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a jumpstart for your week. Equity had a busy last few days, so to help you catch up: Friday’s episode was a lot of fun (Duolingo, Figma, OMERS, and aquafaba), and we also dropped an Equity Shot on Saturday, digging into the first major technology earnings week. […]

Facebook is expanding its Community Help hub to better serve local communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The hub has already seen significant usage by those requesting food, supplies and information about local resources, as well as use by volunteers and groups willing to lend a hand. Now, Facebook is adding more features to the hub […]

In spite of their protected status under international laws, pangolins remain one of the most trafficked animals in the world — and at least some of that trade is taking place right out in the open on Facebook . A new report from tech watchdog group the Tech Transparency Project details how Facebook users are […]

After months of testing, Facebook’s redesign is finally official. Announced last year at F8, the more minimalist approach to its desktop design has been rolled out in waves. In March, the company added an option to try out the new version. Users could switch back and leave feedback for why they had done so. This […]

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

Once the UK accepted trade friction, everything changed

Direct payments should be made to citizens and companies

UK election campaign fights for national health

Tech companies caught in coronavirus disruption

Doxzoo proudly says on its website that your “documents are in safe hands.” But for some time, that wasn’t true. The U.K. printing company left its customer files on a cloud storage bucket, hosted on Amazon Web Services, without a password. Anyone who knew the easy-to-guess bucket name could access the massive trove of customer […]

Google is reportedly on the verge of stepping up their hardware game in a way that follows the example set by Apple, with custom-designed silicon powering future smartphones. Axios reports that Google is readying its own in-house processors for use in future Pixel devices, including both phones and eventually Chromebooks, too. Google’s efforts around its […]

A few months ago, the idea of a hand-washing app would have seemed trivial, at best. We’re all adults here, right? We’ve been washing our hands our entire lives. But things change. It’s mid-April and we’re afraid to go outside and engage with other humans — and thorough hand-washing is one of very few tools […]