Shareholders’ incentives can make them more long-termist than company managers

Prospective deal comes as Riyadh-listed STC seeks to expand regionally

Endiama chief wants ‘radical change’ in overhaul of country’s scandal-hit gem industry

Cancelling payouts should not become a loyalty test

Coronavirus means many businesses face an uncertain future but the region’s fundamentals will aid recovery

Businesses shift their focus from scale to survival as a coronavirus-led downturn takes hold — but the region’s underlying growth prospects bode well for the recovery

Dissatisfaction grows as watchdog calls on courts to act quickly on Covid-19 disputes

£3.5bn worth of dividend payments cancelled this week 

Those in pensions drawdown are at risk of  pound cost ravaging

Even dividends from stalwarts Shell and BP may be in doubt in the fallout from the Covid-19 crisis 

She turned the agency into a diplomatic and moral force

The technology has significant potential to shake up the construction sector

Sobering up after the crisis will require changes to tax laws, bonuses and pensions

Online broker is revamping its charging structure

Cash from successful claims could reach bank accounts by end of the month

Listed businesses have been conspicuously slow in estimating disruption to operations

Political goodwill for Spire Healthcare could act as a tailwind once virus impact eases

In contrast with many global peers, Petrobras has made scant efforts to diversify into green energy

The former Fox CEO commits millions to battle against disinformation

This inaugural ranking of the region’s businesses by revenue growth rate reveals the dominance of the US and technology — the top-ranked company this year is an augmented reality and video game developer

Technology bolsters US dominance of the list, but coronavirus fallout looms large

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

Advisers warn the widening landscape is confusing investors and preventing people from saving

VC fund Runa Capital was launched with $135 million in 2010, and is perhaps best known for its investment into NGINX, which powers many web sites today. In more recent years it has participated or led investments into startups such as Zipdrug ($10.8 million); Rollbar this year ($11 million); and Monedo (for €20 million). HQ’d […]

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 […]

Rich countries need to fund infectious disease treatments properly

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 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 […]

If the populists gain power in France and Italy, the future of the euro will be in their hands

The problem with bad data is that it lures us into believing false truths

Ideally governments would co-ordinate fiscal policy but there is no sense of urgency

Thanks to smartphones and their downsized keyboards, autocomplete has become a nearly ubiquitous feature of how we write these days. To save us precious seconds composing and (at least in my fat-thumbed case) correcting words, our keyboards now prompt us with suggestions of what we’re trying to write to get the job done a little […]

Amazon has been one of the biggest names synonymous with how the consumer masses are experiencing life under lockdown: its site lets you buy anything from soup to nuts, from books to baking pans for all your sourdough; and via its streaming services, it gives you many ways to stay entertained. But it can also […]

Profit forecasts ditched as coronavirus disrupts operations

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 […]

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, […]

If the UK stock market is in for more of a hiding, the FTSE 100 is likely to outperform the FTSE 250

I am pursuing a claim for the exposure to asbestos while working

I would like to pay her but am worried the IR35 tax changes in April could complicate matters

I’m still worried about being investigated by HMRC despite the 12-month postponement

Adobe has taken quite a bit of heat for its release of Photoshop on the iPad, mostly because it’s not as feature-complete as a lot of users were hoping, given that this is meant to be a full version of Photoshop on par with the desktop edition on Apple’s tablet OS for the first time. […]

Apple just dumped a bunch of hardware news online via press release. That’s just the world we live in right now. We’ll probably be seeing a whole lot of this in the coming weeks and months, as companies adjust to the new online reality. Along with a new MacBook Air and update to the Mac […]

Over the past two years, I’ve typed nearly every word I’ve written while traveling on the iPad Pro’s Smart Keyboard Folio. For more on why, you can see my iPad Pro review here. For the purposes of this look at the new Magic Keyboard, though, you should probably just know two things about the old […]

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 […]

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 […]

In an overleveraged world headed for economic slowdown, don’t rely on the heavily indebted for rescue

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

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

LinkedIn has cornered the market when it comes to putting your own professional profile online and using it to network for jobs, industry connections and professional development. But when it comes to looking at a chart of the people, and specifically the leadership teams, who make up organizations more holistically, the Microsoft-owned network comes up […]