Sportswear maker apologises but warns it cannot bear virus lockdown for long   

Healthcare tech group chief calls estimate to deal with coronavirus ‘conservative’ as it boosts medical equipment production

Hedge fund billionaire cites Silver Lake-backed company’s reliance on international travel

Harsher medicine this time round would put asset prices on a better long-term footing

Dow wipes out gains of the Trump presidency amid fears antivirus measures are inadequate

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

French regulator says agency failed to verify false story that sent Vinci shares down 18%

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

FTSE 250 housebuilder also takes charge for fire safety review after Grenfell tragedy

Mixed messages follow industry protests over 2-metre distance ruling

Work in the sector slows at fastest rate since financial crisis

The pro-Beijing venture capitalist on Trump, China’s rise — and Xi Jinping’s ‘little red app’

Gillian Tett on the city's struggle to contain the virus and the financial fallout

An inquiry into the origins of Covid-19 is needed if important lessons are to be learnt

Private equity firms in separate discussions to back coronavirus-hit Serie A

With no productive use of liquidity, money is going into market speculation driving recovery in asset prices

Companies are seeking to tap whatever sources of affordable funding are available

Latest proposal accused of being misleading over environmental risk

Developers of clean energy projects defy wider turmoil in the global energy markets

Covert and overt ways to interest children in learning about money

Forbearance and federal support programmes disguise how badly Americans have been hit

UK-based education company is still more value trap than takeover candidate

Listed businesses have been conspicuously slow in estimating disruption to operations

Pressure rises on investors to blacklist companies associated with Brazilian deforestation

With the disastrous purchase of Monsanto and plummeting shares, some question if it is time to break up the German group

German chemicals group faces surge in plaintiffs alleging cancer link to Roundup

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

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

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

It would be the underlying law and EU treaty that needs changing, not the ruling

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 […]

Paige, the Sloan-Kettering spinout that has been building an artificial intelligence platform to improve cancer pathology and subsequently use those insights to develop better drug therapies, has raised an additional $5 million in funding to continue its work commercialising its platform and expanding its research reach, while also getting FDA clearance to launch in hospitals […]

Traditionally dominated by big players like Adobe and Autodesk, the world of design has been flush with a newer wave of startups that are creating collaboration spaces and new cloud-based tools designed to address the needs of creatives. Today, two of those players are combining. Dribbble, an online community for designers that lets them post […]

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 […]

Profit forecasts ditched as coronavirus disrupts operations

Tumblr is making a change to how it deals with hate speech on its blogging platform. The company announced today it will also remove the reblogs (repostings) from any blogs that were suspended for violating its policies around hate speech. Already, the company says it’s identified nearly 1,000 blogs that were banned for blatant violations […]

I am a US citizen who has lived in the UK for nearly 20 years

HMRC’s letter says I might have to withhold tax from my rent 

Got something in your medical history that first responders should know about if you call 911? Things like known drug allergies, or the medications you’re on? The iPhone and Apple Watch will soon be able to share this information with first responders automatically (if you opt to let it do so). When a user with […]

Commercial real estate owners, brokers and landlords have collectively made many hundreds of billions of dollars a year in recent years as the economy zipped along. Now, they’re getting clobbered by the pandemic-fueled economic crisis. Worse, their industry may be forever changed by it. To state the obvious, extracting rent from nearly anyone right now […]

Might we all be better off if government loans were fast converted into equity?

It is not a matter of protecting people ‘or’ the economy but of protecting people ‘and’ the economy

The internet has, for better or worse, become the default platform for people seeking information, and today one of the companies leveraging that to deliver educational content has raised some funding to fuel its next stage of growth. Udemy, which provides a marketplace offering some 150,000 different online learning courses from business analytics to ukulele […]

Samsung Electronics announced today that its blood pressure monitoring app for Galaxy Watches has been approved by South Korean regulators. Called the Samsung Health Monitor, the app will be available for the Galaxy Watch Active2 during the third quarter, at least in South Korea, and added to upcoming Galaxy Watch devices. TechCrunch has contacted Samsung […]

Nvidia Chief Scientist Bill Dally has released an open-source ventilator hardware design he developed in order to address the shortage resulting from the global coronavirus pandemic. The mechanical ventilator design developed by Dally can be assembled quickly, using off-the-shelf parts with a total cost of around $400 — making it an accessible and affordable alternative […]

Backblaze today announced that its B2 Cloud Storage service is now API-compatible with Amazon’s S3 storage service. Backblaze started as an affordable cloud backup service, but over the last few years, the company has also taken its storage expertise and launched the developer-centric B2 Cloud Storage service, which promises to be significantly cheaper than similar […]

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 […]

Got something in your medical history that first responders should know about if you call 911? Things like known drug allergies, or the medications you’re on? The iPhone and Apple Watch will soon be able to share this information with first responders automatically (if you opt to let it do so). When a user with […]

Cockroach Labs, the NYC enterprise database company, announced an $86.6 million Series D funding round today. The company was in no mood to talk valuations, but was happy to have a big chunk of money to help build on its recent success and ride out the current economic malaise. Altimeter Capital and Bond co-led the […]