Pinterest’s active users drop as pandemic boom wanes February 3, 2022 Pinterest monthly active users declined six per cent during the fourth quarter to the lowest since June 2020, signalling that a pandemic-driven surge in demand was cooling off as easing restrictions encourage people to step out more. The image sharing platform’s monthly active users (MAUs) – a key metric that shows engagement levels on the [...]
Can we really afford the metaverse? October 11, 2022 Pete Hill of Cudo Ventures suggests the industry is going to have to think differently to make metaverses less energy-hungry.
As The Perkcession Bites, What Workplace Benefits Are Important Now? April 17, 2023 With layoffs at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of New York Mellon racking up thousands of job cuts, those working in the financial services sector are understandably worried about contagion, and whether their own jobs will be safe. The collapse of Credit Suisse in March, and its subsequent rescue by rival UBS, as well [...]
Crypto markets continue to look flat amid disappointing earnings season for tech giants April 28, 2022 Bitcoin is currently changing hands for around $39,700 – up by more than two per cent over the past 24 hours.
We’re instinctively afraid of Big Things, but we don’t need to break up the Home Office January 25, 2023 Whether its Big Government or Big Tech, we have an innate fear of anything too large or unwieldy. But breaking things up - or making them smaller - won't in itself fix problems in the system, writes Sascha O'Sullivan.
A Strange Loop writer Michael R. Jackson on creating the buzziest musical since Hamilton July 6, 2023 A surprise hit in the US, A Strange Loop has now landed a huge London run. Adam Bloodworth speaks to the man who dreamed it up while working as an usher on Broadway Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, becoming the second ever musical to win the accolade. The [...]
Microsoft’s $16bn Nuance bid secures EU antitrust approval December 21, 2021 Microsoft's $16bn (£12bn) bid for AI company Nuance has won approval from the European Commission following an antitrust probe.
Why one San Fran fintech snubbed Nasdaq for the London Stock Exchange January 30, 2024 Boku is a San-Francisco founded fintech that bucked the trend to float in London in 2017. Charlie Conchie asks its new chief how life has been on the beleaguered London Stock Exchange.
Which metaverse stocks should you watch? February 3, 2022 Following a bearish January, are metaverse stocks set to recover? Investors who are feeling a strange sense of déjà vu over January’s market sell-off are not alone. With tech stocks shattered, and CNN reporting Warren Buffett as ‘having the last laugh’, a new era of tightening monetary policy has seen investors reassess outlandish growth prospects. But this [...]
Going old school: why new media’s rise is far from inevitable August 18, 2022 Ian Whittaker is twice winner of the City A.M. Analyst of the Year, a long-standing Square Mile media analyst and founder of advisory firm Liberty Sky Advisors The last 12 months has been a brutal one for many of the most high-profile names in the Media space. According to a recent FT piece, nearly $400bn [...]