NYSE owner did not ‘lose its mind’, says Jeffrey Sprecher

MEMX is hoping to disrupt the US equities market when it launches in July

Platforms report soaring activity after coronavirus outbreak spooks investors

US Treasury secretary floats idea of shorter trading hours as staffing hit by virus

Industry associations demand detail to manage risk of trading from home

Arca in San Francisco and Box in Chicago will throw open their doors on Monday

Rise of volatility and dispersion was supposed to bring a change of fortunes versus passive

German airline looks at procedure similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid dispute over bailout conditions

Producers’ realised prices are lower than they appear, while traders are braced for more turmoil

Many decide to hold on to cash, triggering disputes with landlords in commercial and residential sectors

Almost half of British companies have scrapped payouts in response to coronavirus

Light touch checks on UK borrowers raise fears of defaults on loans and fraud

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

Sportswear maker warns sales could drop as much as 40% in second quarter

Wuhan and the future of banks; digital insurance with Artificial; Robinhood’s $8.3bn valuation

Coronavirus-linked turmoil draws many investors out into the open

The epidemic could weaken Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, feed conspiracy theories and lead to closed borders

O2 and Virgin Media’s £31bn merger is one of the biggest examples of virtual dealmaking during pandemic

If Berlin agrees a €9bn bailout for the airline, it is likely to want a 25 per cent stake and board seats

World’s biggest gold miner reaps rewards of pandemic price effect and Goldcorp acquisition

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

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

Concerns over climate change led the chemicals veteran to dramatically transform Syngenta

Mark Cutifani says polyhalite a ‘very differentiated’ product to potash

Products vital to combat coronavirus could become more expensive and scarce

“Is Greta Thunberg a hypocrite?” Google that phrase and you will get thousands of results. It just goes to show that, to a large extent, the “Q&A” model is broken on the internet. Where once Yahoo Answers and Quora were considered the bright young things of Web 2.0’s “Read/Write Web,” today there is only the […]

Rich countries need to fund infectious disease treatments properly

It is hard to overstate the turn to Euroscepticism. It will not go away when lockdown ends

UK election campaign fights for national health

No surprise, really, that 5G smartphone sales are on the way up. Frankly, there’s really no other way to go, according to the latest numbers from NPD’s Mobile Phone Tracking. The firm noted that 5G handsets accounted for less than 1% of total sales in the U.S. The hurdles are also what you’d expect: namely, […]

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 […]

Microsoft and Amazon are at it again as the fight for the Defense Department JEDI contract continues. In a recent series of increasingly acerbic pronouncements, the two companies continue their ongoing spat over the $10 billion, decade-long JEDI contract spoils. As you may recall (or not), last fall in a surprise move, the DoD selected […]

Twitter announced today it’s introducing a new layout for replies that will use lines and indentations to make it easier to understand who you’re replying to and how the conversation is flowing. The company will also test putting engagement actions — including likes, Retweet and reply icons — behind an extra tap to make replies […]

YouTube TV is expanding its lineup of channels thanks to a new, multi-year distribution agreement with ViacomCBS, announced this morning. The Google-owned streaming TV service is gaining 14 new ViacomCBS channels as a result of the deal, including news, sports, and entertainment offerings. It will also continue to carry CBS broadcast stations, CBS Sports Network, […]

I employ 10 people and also own a couple of buy-to-let properties

Autotech Ventures popped on the scene three years ago with a $120 million debut fund and a plan to invest in early-stage ground transportation startups. Now, with investments in 26 startups and a handful of exits, including Xnor.ai, DeepScale and Frontier Car Group, the venture firm is back with a new, bigger fund and the […]

Health secretary pledges to increase tests to 100,000 a day in England by enlisting big companies and private labs

Twitter announced today it’s introducing a new layout for replies that will use lines and indentations to make it easier to understand who you’re replying to and how the conversation is flowing. The company will also test putting engagement actions — including likes, Retweet and reply icons — behind an extra tap to make replies […]

Costs are falling — but it still looks far more expensive than it should

‘The old globalised order is fracturing. We are seeing wartime-style falls in GDP’

Achieving zero emissions by 2050 would require unprecedented global co-operation

The right candidate to fill your job may not actually be looking for a job right now. HireSweet, which is part of Y Combinator’s current class of startups, is trying to help companies find exactly these candidates that are perfect for a job but not actively looking. Like so many other recruiting platforms, the HireSweet […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the manufacture of the Coventor ventilator, a new hardware design first developed by the University of Minnesota. The project sought to create a ventilator that could provide the same level of life-saving care as existing ventilator models, but with a much lower cost to help ramp […]

Amazon workers across the world are formalizing their activism with the creation of the Amazon Workers International. Its first action is a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Amazon Director of UK Customer Fulfillment Stefano Perego in which the group demands the company makes permanent certain steps Amazon has implemented amid the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

Microsoft and Amazon are at it again as the fight for the Defense Department JEDI contract continues. In a recent series of increasingly acerbic pronouncements, the two companies continue their ongoing spat over the $10 billion, decade-long JEDI contract spoils. As you may recall (or not), last fall in a surprise move, the DoD selected […]

Apple is providing a data set derived from aggregated, anonymized information taken from users of its Maps navigational app, the company announced today. The data is collected as a set of “Mobility Trends Reports,” which are updated daily and provide a look at the change in the number of routing requests made within the Maps […]

YouTube TV is expanding its lineup of channels thanks to a new, multi-year distribution agreement with ViacomCBS, announced this morning. The Google-owned streaming TV service is gaining 14 new ViacomCBS channels as a result of the deal, including news, sports, and entertainment offerings. It will also continue to carry CBS broadcast stations, CBS Sports Network, […]

“Is Greta Thunberg a hypocrite?” Google that phrase and you will get thousands of results. It just goes to show that, to a large extent, the “Q&A” model is broken on the internet. Where once Yahoo Answers and Quora were considered the bright young things of Web 2.0’s “Read/Write Web,” today there is only the […]

Charles Li will not seek reappointment when contract expires in October 2021

Microsoft and Amazon are at it again as the fight for the Defense Department JEDI contract continues. In a recent series of increasingly acerbic pronouncements, the two companies continue their ongoing spat over the $10 billion, decade-long JEDI contract spoils. As you may recall (or not), last fall in a surprise move, the DoD selected […]