Payally boss: Big Tech crackdown will kill London startups September 13, 2023 The UK needs to “loosen its grip” on Big Tech and steer away from copying the EU’s tough approach to the sector, the founder payments firm Payally has warned. “We need to be attracting big tech to London, not discouraging it,” Rafal Andzejevski told City A.M. “For right or for wrong, we left the EU, [...]
Opening Night review: Sheridan Smith in brilliantly bonkers show March 27, 2024 Opening Night review and star rating: ★★★★ Critics are bound by embargoes dictating when they can and cannot reveal their thoughts on a production. For Opening Night, the response has been so extreme that reviewers barely managed to keep schtum. One wrote “I saw Opening Night” with a melting face emoji, surely a tell-all sign [...]
Explainer: What’s wrong with music streaming? January 31, 2023 Today is another rough day for tech. Streaming giant Spotify suffered significant losses in the last quarter, despite a rise in subscribers. Operating costs soared to 44 per cent after the platform made a mistake common in tech: expanding and hiring during the pandemic without thinking of long-term implications. This is not the first bad [...]
Forget Starbucks, the Square Mile needs to be the coffee shop for cultural ideas November 20, 2023 The benefits of fostering connections in the City go far beyond the Square Mile, writes new Lord Mayor of the City of London Michael Mainelli
A Mirror at Almeida review: Jonny Lee Miller shines in totalitarian satire August 31, 2023 There are times when the Almeida’s new production A Mirror feels a little like – whisper it – immersive theatre. You enter the stage through a flower arch to find a pretty believable facsimile of a low-key wedding. There are tables filled with cocktail sausages and bowls of crisps and plastic glasses of wine. There [...]
Outgoing CMA chief still has ‘anxiety’ about the path of competition regulator July 28, 2022 Outgoing chief of the competition watchdog Andrea Coscelli has said he still has “anxiety” about the UK’s regulatory position.
TikTok rolls out 10 minute videos as it closes in on YouTube March 1, 2022 TikTok is set to roll out videos of up to 10 minutes in length, as the Chinese tech firm closes in on competitors like YouTube.
Cost of loving: Tinder boosted by paid matches despite spending squeeze November 2, 2022 MONEY can’t buy you happiness, but it may be able to buy you love, with Tinder owner cashing in on people looking for love despite cost of living woes. Match Group, which also owns Hinge and OKCupid, revealed that the number of paid subscriptions to the dating app rose seven per cent globally in July-September. [...]
Big Tech outlier: Apple pushes for three day return to office policy August 16, 2022 Apple has called on employees to get back into office at least three days a week as the tech giant continues to defy work from home trends that dominate Silicon Valley.
The metaverse – a peep into the virtual world March 30, 2022 Crypto AM's Jonny Fry takes us by the hand and gently guides us through the mind-boggling world of the metaverse.