The death of the veteran folk singer prompted numerous tributes to his integrity and idealism. But it was his mythical spat with Bob Dylan that really defined his era’s cultural politics  

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About 2m businesspeople thought to be ineligible for existing coronavirus support schemes

In Stoke-on-Trent, Matthew Engel finds a party struggling to answer the simplest questions

Macri tries to shore up confidence amid market worries over prolonged political instability and $101bn owed

The London Stock Exchange group has confirmed that it is in advanced talks to buy Refinitiv in a $27bn deal that would turn it into a global exchanges and data powerhouse. Patrick Jenkins discusses the proposed deal with Arash Massoudi, the FT’s corporate finance and deals editor.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Arash Massoudi, corporate finance and deals editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has been in power for two decades and now it looks as though he intends to stay indefinitely. He has launched an overhaul of the country’s power structures that could allow him to extend his control after his official term ends in 2024. Katie Martin discusses the move with Max Seddon in Moscow and Ben Hall, Europe editor.

Contributors: Katie Martin, capital markets editor, Max Seddon, Moscow correspondent, and Ben Hall, Europe editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Loan scheme worth up to £100m a month would allow suppliers to assist struggling customers

If lenders maintain support, the company’s balance sheet may not need an urgent fix

Country’s production this year expected to top 2019 if coronavirus kept at bay

First state company to enter business rescue since end of apartheid

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

Decision comes amid row between companies and insurers on what is covered under policies

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

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

Price crash provokes supply cuts but ‘all bets are off’ if second wave of pandemic hits

Companies running defined benefit pension schemes ask regulator to extend payment holidays

Banked, a London-based fintech using open banking to enable account-to-account payments at checkout (and beyond), has raised £2.35 million in further seed funding. The round was led by Force Over Mass, with participation from previous investors Backed and Acrew Capital, along with a number of high-net-worth individuals, such as Paul Forster (co-founder of Indeed.com). It […]

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 […]

Gillian Tett on how to assess risk in the age of coronavirus

Banks try to limit fallout from collapse of Singapore commodities trader Hin Leong

Sleuth, an early stage startup from three former Atlassian employees, wants to bring some much-needed order to the continuous delivery process. Today, the company announced it has raised a $3 million seed round. ​CRV led the round with participation from angel investors from New Relic, Atlassian and LaunchDarkly. “Sleuth is a deployment tracker built to […]

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 […]

Stilt, a Y Combinator alum that provides financial services for immigrants without Social Security numbers or credit reports, announced today that it has closed a $7.5 million seed round. It also launched FDIC-insured pre-approved global bank accounts today. The startup has raised equity from investors including Liron Petrushka; Hillsven Capital; Streamlined Ventures; Gokul Rajaram; Bragiel […]

As the infrastructure for developing games becomes more advanced, studios have turned to buying best-in-class technology from others instead of building everything from scratch (often with inferior quality). This shift underpinned Unity’s rise as the most popular game engine. The current focus on games as ever-evolving social hubs that can remain popular for a decade […]

We’re not letting this pandemic disrupt Disrupt SF 2020. Like any determined early-stage startup founder, we’re adapting and moving forward. Can’t join us in person on September 14-16? No problem. Take advantage of Digital Startup Alley, a completely new way to disrupt. Place your startup in front of influential movers and shakers and keep your […]

Just as challenger banks have appeared in the B2C space, so to have B2B startup banks aimed at small businesses, among them startups like Qonto (Fr), Tide (UK), Penta (GER) and CountingUp (UK). Today another such firm, Finom, has closed a €6.5m ($7M) seed funding round led by Target Global, with participation from General Catalyst. […]

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 […]

As the infrastructure for developing games becomes more advanced, studios have turned to buying best-in-class technology from others instead of building everything from scratch (often with inferior quality). This shift underpinned Unity’s rise as the most popular game engine. The current focus on games as ever-evolving social hubs that can remain popular for a decade […]

We’re not letting this pandemic disrupt Disrupt SF 2020. Like any determined early-stage startup founder, we’re adapting and moving forward. Can’t join us in person on September 14-16? No problem. Take advantage of Digital Startup Alley, a completely new way to disrupt. Place your startup in front of influential movers and shakers and keep your […]

Apple and Google have released the first version of their exposure notification API, which they previously called the contact tracing API. This is a developer-focused release, and is a seed of the API in development, with the primary intent of collecting feedback from developers who will be using the API to create new contact tracing […]

Seed fundraising is rarely easy, but it certainly used to be a lot less complicated than it is today. In a simpler world, a seed investor (or maybe two) would lead a round, which meant that they would write the terms of the deal in a term sheet and then pass that document to their […]

Australia dropped six places to 15th position - the largest drop out of the 27 OECD countries measured.

Two young Australian innovators are ready to take their ventures to the next level after sharing in $20,000 in seed funding from PwC during a live pitching event held by the Foundation for Young Australians.

With Windows 10X, Microsoft introduced a new version of its flagship operating system last October that was specifically designed for dual-screen devices. The original plan was to launch the first set of Windows 10X dual-screen devices before the 2020 holidays, and in February of this year, it announced a slew of tools to help developers […]

1. Hurry up: Last chance to see a supermoon this year  Euronews
2. In pictures: Last supermoon of 2020 rises on a world grappling to overcome pandemic  DAWN.com
3. May's flower moon lights up the sky around the globe  ABC News
4. Don't miss the last full supermoon of 2020, a 'flower moon,' on May 7  CNET
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2. Deepika Padukone & Amitabh Bachchan remember Irrfan Khan  NEWS9 live
3. Deepika Padukone recalls late Irrfan Khan with a throwback video of their tennis game; Says ‘please come back’  PINKVILLA
4. Deepika Padukone Remembers Irrfan Khan With A Sweet Memory From The Sets Of Piku  NDTV
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Banked, a London-based fintech using open banking to enable account-to-account payments at checkout (and beyond), has raised £2.35 million in further seed funding. The round was led by Force Over Mass, with participation from previous investors Backed and Acrew Capital, along with a number of high-net-worth individuals, such as Paul Forster (co-founder of Indeed.com). It […]

Stilt, a Y Combinator alum that provides financial services for immigrants without Social Security numbers or credit reports, announced today that it has closed a $7.5 million seed round. It also launched FDIC-insured pre-approved global bank accounts today. The startup has raised equity from investors including Liron Petrushka; Hillsven Capital; Streamlined Ventures; Gokul Rajaram; Bragiel […]

Prague based Resistant AI has nabbed a $2.75M seed round. The security startup’s machine learning technology is designed to be deployed on top of AI systems used for financial decision making to protect customers in markets such as financial services and ecommerce from attacks such as targeted manipulation, adversarial machine learning and advanced fraud. The […]

Once you have a few franchises in mind, you'll be talking to a franchise rep from each company. Here's the skinny on how that phone call should go.

TALK OF THE TOWN: Michelle Dockery, who plays Lady Mary was on a mission to buy essentials for herself and boyfriend Jasper Waller-Bridge, the brother of Fleabag star Phoebe.

The This Morning presenter, 57, and the former BBC production assistant, 55, walked the red carpet and posed for photos together on Tuesday 28 January.

House Rules regularly sees some high stress moments. And Sunday night's episode was no exception, with Shayn and Carly seeing tempers flare with rival team, Katie and Alex.

The TV presenter said grandson Jax has been a 'beacon of joy' to her family and that seeing her own son step up and be a dad 'tugs at her heartstrings'. 

ESPN report that an agreement has been reached to recommend a temporary reduction of salaries to players and clubs in Ligue 1 to help French football deal with the coronavirus pandemic.

The former glamour model, 41, took to Instagram on Friday to share an emotional video of the teen where he said he 'loved daddy Dwight'.

After recently getting some controversial ink permanently marked under his eye, Presley Gerber posted an Instagram snap that sent commenters into a tizzy. It appeared he was using a tattoo filter.

The twerk train rolled into the station on Monday as Miley Cyrus spends the holidays in Tennessee getting rowdy under the Christmas tree with her famous family.

Brody, 36, was joined by 29-year-old Daniella Grace for a low key dinner at Nobu in LA on Saturday, looking cosy as they headed off home together.

They've been batting away split rumours for weeks. But Cody Simpson and Miley Cyrus proved they were stronger than ever on Boxing Day.