How finances and the economy have changed over 25 years.
- Professor of Practice, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
If the UK doesn’t want to lose London’s role as one of the great magnets for world capital, there are some ugly choices to weigh up.
After a decade of brutal competition, hackney drivers are being invited in from the cold.
With competitors like Threads launching, where does Twitter go from here?
The economic picture has changed but Musk is pushing ahead with a deal, for now.
With customers and workers both being squeezed, what does the future look like?
Fast grocery delivery services are expanding quickly, but their long-term survival is being questioned.
Big mergers are hugely complex, and not always popular with shareholders.
It could push up prices and pay.
No sooner has he returned from space than the Virgin king is making noises about putting his airline on the stock market.
Investment in tech businesses is crumbling but the winners are eyeing up the losers.
This might be the craziest game in venture capitalism.
Uber’s London licence has been a political football for several years, but that’s not really the point.
SoftBank is pouring another US$8 billion into WeWork, even though the office rental company is now valued at just US$8 billion.
WeWork’s uncertain future reflects how investors have wised up to the hype around Silicon Valley start ups.
Fundamentally, WeWork’s finances do not look good. It is still a long way from profitability.
Astronomic valuations for non-profitable companies are popular in Silicon Valley but how are they calculated and what do they reflect?
There are a lot of similarities between the state of tech companies today and when the 2000 dot-com bubble burst.
Comcast and Disney’s bidding war for Sky can only be justified by the outside threat of Amazon and Netflix.
How to tidy up a right royal mess.
Too much money, too few targets. Is the golden child of the 1980s starting to look long in the tooth?
How the ride-sharing company responds to a licence refusal in the UK capital will show if its culture has genuinely changed.
It hasn’t been a good round of earnings for Silicon Valley’s big names.
The CEO gets out as investor power triumphs.
Tech firm CEOs keep control by holding investors at arm’s length. It is damaging corporate governance.
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