After years of focusing on North America, Lyft is finally entering Europe with a deal to buy German-headquartered ride-hailing platform Free Now for $200m. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/l... Worth noting that Uber already has a massive head start here (it first launched in London in.. 2012!!)

Google has been hit with a major UK lawsuit accusing the tech giant of abusing its dominance in search to squeeze competition. The class action suit is seeking potential damages north of £5 billion on behalf of hundreds of thousands of businesses. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/g...

Known for its critical chipmaking tools, ASML is something of a bellwether for the global semiconductor industry. Today, the company said tariffs are “creating a new uncertainty” for market demand, suggesting some disruption may be afoot for chipmakers. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/c...

Marshmallow, the UK insurance startup for migrants, raises $90M at a $2B+ valuation

Exclusive: Adobe has invested an undisclosed sum into Synthesia, in a bet that AI will transform video production. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/15/a...

As Meta faces off with the FTC in court today, the regulator's former chair Lina Khan says Facebook “panicked” and resorted to a "buy-or-bury scheme" when it saw Instagram and WhatsApp experience huge growth as smartphones took off: www.cnbc.com/2025/04/14/f...

The venture capital industry was already under pressure from a lack of big IPOs or M&A deals. Now VCs face an even tougher outlook, with tariff uncertainty and market volatility putting public listings from the likes of Klarna and StubHub on hold: www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/t... #vc #tech #tariffs

Nice piece from @haydenfield.bsky.social on Isomorphic Labs, the secretive Google DeepMind spinoff that's trying to achieve groundbreaking drug discoveries using AI. cnbc.com/2025/04/09/i...

The UK tried to keep details of a hearing on Apple's appeal against demands for a "backdoor" to users' encrypted info a secret. A tribunal has dismissed that request for secrecy, saying it “would be the most fundamental interference with the principle of open justice.” www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/u...

In his annual shareholder letter, JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon warns tariffs announced by President Donald Trump last week will likely boost prices on both domestic and imported goods, weighing down a slowing US economy. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/j...

Trump extended the deadline for ByteDance to sell TikTok's US operations until mid-June. TikTok faces an effective ban in the US if its Chinese parent company can't agree on a sale. Numerous suitors for the app have emerged, including Oracle, Amazon and AppLovin. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/t...

Klarna and StubHub have both slammed the brakes on their IPOs in response to market volatility following Trump's tariffs on several major US trading partners. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/k...

Plaid has more than halved in value in a new funding round netting the company $575 million. The US fintech is now valued at $6 billion, down from $13.4 billion it was worth in 2021. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/p...

Nintendo's new Switch 2 will hit the shelves on June 5 for a price of $449.99 (£395.99 in the UK). All details - including a new camera accessory catering for streamers - here in our story, from @kif.bsky.social: www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/n...

Raspberry Pi reported a 57% drop in profit for 2024, in the company’s first earnings report since its London listing. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/e...

Investors now think OpenAI is worth $300 billion...! Gonna be interesting to see how it all shakes out when investors start getting itchy for a return on their mammoth investments into this company... www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/o...

After years of struggles in its consumer devices unit following Trump's crackdown, Huawei is nearly back to where it was in 2020, reporting its second-highest revenue figure ever for 2024. Story here from @arjunkharpal.bsky.social: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/h...

New: I had an hour-long interview with the CEO of Klarna last year. We spoke about everything from his views on AI and how he thinks it will replace jobs to the challenges of being a founder-CEO for two decades. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/k...

I really did try and tell people

This should be good 🍿 www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/c...

Ubisoft shares are surging this morning after the video game maker said it was spinning off some of its top franchises - including Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six - into a new subsidiary backed by China's Tencent. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/u...

So this was all just a big "nothing burger," then? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fintech funding coming back? Mercury, a San Francisco-based startup that offers bank accounts for businesses, announces it's raised $300 million. The round was led by Sequoia Capital and doubles Mercury's valuation to $3.5 billion from $1.6 billion previously. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Data from Edmunds shows that Tesla owners have been trading in their vehicles at record levels since CEO Elon Musk joined Trump’s White House, @lorak.bsky.social reports. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/20/t...

"Some 145,000 passengers could be affected by the closure, according to aviation-data firm Cirium." 😲 www.cnbc.com/2025/03/21/h...

Nvidia announced two new chips for building and deploying AI models at its annual GTC conference. Blackwell Ultra is an upgrade to its Blackwell chip, while Vera Rubin is Nvidia's next-generation GPU. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/18/n...

Missed this last week while I was off... 'OpenAI called for “a copyright strategy that promotes the freedom to learn” and for “preserving American AI models’ ability to learn from copyrighted material.”' Hmmmmmmmmmmm... www.cnbc.com/2025/03/13/o...

Google has agreed to acquire Israeli-founded cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32 billion in cash, in the tech giant's biggest-ever acquisition. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/18/g...

Klarna just nabbed a lucrative deal from Affirm to become the exclusive BNPL provider to big-box retailer Walmart, @serhughoftheglen.bsky.social reports: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/17/w... This after the Swedish fintech giant officially disclosed its intention to go public in the US..

It's interesting to observe Zepz's Glassdoor ratings after my story on the company's latest round of layoffs came out last week. Just 33% of people recommend working there. Only 29% respect the CEO, Mark Lenhard. Constant mentions of consecutive layoffs... www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Zepz...

The highlight from Sony's December quarter was strong performance at its games division. The tech giant sold 9.5 million PlayStation 5 units - the most PS5s it's ever sold in a single quarter - in fiscal Q3. That takes PS5 lifetime sales to around 75 million. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/13/s...

Germany’s far-right party is dominating polls in the country’s eastern region less than two weeks before the federal elections on Feb. 23. Economic concerns are a key contributing factor to the AfD's success specifically in East Germany. Read my latest below. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/e...

Scoop: Fintech unicorn Zepz is in the process of laying off 200 employees, or about 20% of its global workforce, sources tell me. Zepz confirmed it is in the process of making redundancies and has proposed closing hiring entities in Kenya and Poland. Details: www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/f...

The UK has reportedly issued an order to Apple to create a "backdoor" providing access to iPhone users' encrypted cloud backups. A Home Office spokesperson told me the government can't comment on "operational matters" like notices of this nature. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/u...

Kudos to this chap on the UK's 'AI and copyright' parliamentary committee for showing off his rad cymbal collection in the background..

Guys. I don't read pitches on LinkedIn. Sorry...

Some great coverage on DeepSeek from CNBC's @ryanbrownecnbc.bsky.social looking at how the tech behind the Chinese startup and advances toward commoditization is paving the way for a shift to the era of next-generation AI agents. 👇🏾👇🏾

ElevenLabs, a startup that uses AI to replicate voices, has raised $180 million in a new round that values it at $3.3 billion. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

From Elon Musk to Mr Beast, these are the likely contenders in the running to buy TikTok: www.cnbc.com/2025/01/24/t...

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has officially opened twin investigations into Apple and Google's huge mobile empires to determine whether they have "strategic market status" under its strict new DMCC competition regime. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/a...

The UK government has replaced the chair of the Competition and Markets Authority with a former Amazon executive after facing criticisms that it's stifling growth. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/22/u...

A cryptocurrency launched by Melanie Trump rallying more than 50% today serves as something of an indicator of what kind of frenzied activity we can expect in crypto under a Trump presidency... www.cnbc.com/2025/01/20/m...

TikTok restoring U.S. service after Trump provided ‘assurance’ www.cnbc.com/2025/01/19/t...

Apple, Google remove TikTok from stores as app halts service in US www.cnbc.com/2025/01/18/a...

Breaking: Supreme Court upholds law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok by Sunday or face a ban of the popular app in the US. ByteDance has so far refused to sell TikTok, meaning many US users could lose access to the app on Sunday. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/17/s...

Ubisoft, best known for its "Assassin's Creed" series, has been shrouded in speculation about a possible takeover. Last week, the firm said it had hired advisors to review "strategic" options. I asked analysts who would be in the running for a bid - if it came to it. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/16/w...

Synthesia, an video platform that uses AI to create clips with lifelike avatars, doubled its valuation to $2.1 billion in a new round of funding. CEO Victor Riparbelli told me the AI hype cycle is "beneficial" — but to him what's important is building a "good business.” www.cnbc.com/2025/01/15/a...

US President Biden issued an executive order aimed at speeding domestic construction of AI infrastructure and shoring up the national security risk involved in the technology. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/14/b...

Exclusive: Klarna says it's secured an expanded partnership with Stripe that will see it offer its BNPL plans on Stripe's payment tools in 26 countries. The deal is a significant win for Klarna, which has been working on an upcoming IPO in the US. More here: www.cnbc.com/2025/01/14/k...