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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.After Reform UK took control of a string of councils at last week’s English local elections, closer attention is being paid to the rightwing populist party’s policy platform.There will be intense scrutiny over the coming months of what Nigel Farage’s insurgent outfit has promised, both at national level and in the areas where it will now be overseeing council services. What are Reform’s key national policies?At last summer’s general election, Reform campaigned hard on an anti-“woke”, anti-net zero and anti-immigration agenda. Its manifesto promised…
Few markets are moving as rapidly as China’s automotive sector. There, new models are rolled out in as little as 18 months, putting tremendous pressure on legacy Western automakers, which need four-plus years to go from concept to sales floor. “With the increasingly short development cycles in China, it’s driving a huge amount of cost and time focus,” Ian Campbell, co-founder and CEO of Breathe Battery Technologies, told TechCrunch. “In both geographies, in the East — in China and Asia — and in the West as well.” Much of that focus has been centered around batteries — the components that…
A pair of young hitters who put on power displays over the weekend are among Monday’s top fantasy baseball pickups. One year ago to the day, these two were minor league teammates, slotting first and fourth in the lineup for Triple-A Norfolk. Today, they’re beginning to flourish at the big-league level, albeit for different teams.Start a free fantasy baseball leagueThe 2025 fantasy baseball season is here! Get the gang back together, or start a brand new tradition.Start or reactivate a league >> Jackson Holliday, 2B, Baltimore Orioles (available in 65.8% of ESPN leagues): He’ll probably be a popular pickup these…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Uber forecast a stronger than expected outlook for the current quarter, allaying fears that US consumers were spending less on ride-hailing and food delivery despite growing economic uncertainty under President Donald Trump.The ride-hailing app said on Wednesday that gross bookings, a measure of customers’ total spending across all its business units, for the three months ending June 30 would be between $45.8bn and $47.3bn, compared with analysts’ estimates of $45.8bn, according to Visible Alpha data. Its forecast for adjusted earnings was also…
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Kapor Capital’s managing partner Ulili Onovakpuri said yesterday that she is leaving the firm. Onovakpuri started as a principal at Kapor Capital more than a decade ago, and rose through the ranks to become managing partner, and eventually (with Brian Dixon) took over the reins from the firm’s co-founders Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein. In her LinkedIn goodbye post, Onovakpuri said she had co-raised a $126 million fund and backed more than 70 companies during her time at Kapor. “I’ll truly miss it,” she wrote. “This isn’t a goodbye to investing or to funding the founders building critical solutions.…
Jake TrotterCloseJake TrotterESPN Senior WriterJake Trotter is a senior writer at ESPN. Trotter covers college football. He also writes about other college sports, including men’s and women’s basketball. Trotter resides in the Cleveland area with his wife and three kids and is a fan of his hometown Oklahoma City Thunder. He covered the Cleveland Browns and NFL for ESPN for five years, moving back to college football in 2024. Previously, Trotter worked for the Middletown (Ohio) Journal, Austin American-Statesman and Oklahoman newspapers before joining ESPN in 2011. He’s a 2004 graduate of Washington and Lee University. You can reach out…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldAt 39 per cent, Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating after 100 days in office of any US president since the second world war. There are two types of people in the world. There are those who will regard that terrible number as the story, and those who won’t be able to believe that it is so high. The second group have a better handle on things.Too much is being made of the public backlash — such as it…
Rumaih bin Mohammed Al-Rumaih, Deputy Minister of Transport and Logistics and Acting President of the Public Transport Authority Rumaih bin Mohammed Al-Rumaih, Deputy Minister of Transport and Logistics and Acting President of the Public Transport Authority, stated that work is underway to expand the coverage of public transport projects to include most medium and large cities in Saudi Arabia. In a statement to “News 24” on the sidelines of the launch of the operation phase of the public bus transport project in Tabuk, he expected the number of cities with public transport projects to reach 25. The number of…
Mitsubishi Motors is in talks with Taiwan-based Foxconn’s electric vehicle division to source an OEM electric car model that the Japanese automaker plans to sell in Australia and New Zealand in the latter half of 2026. Mitsubishi said on Wednesday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Foxtron Vehicle Technology to develop the EV, and would hold further discussions to reach an agreement. Foxtron is a joint venture between Foxconn and Taiwan-based Yulon Motor Co, which assembles and makes cars for Nissan. Mitsubishi and Nissan are also tapping their three-way alliance with Renault to augment their EV lineups…