Retailers are still replenishing stocks after panic buying ahead of coronavirus lockdowns

Homeworking prompts decline in demand for consumer group’s skin and haircare products

Dow wipes out gains of the Trump presidency amid fears antivirus measures are inadequate

Every major asset class has been disrupted

Why, from an investment perspective, Covid-19 suppression is the equivalent of kicking the can down the road.

Investors say ‘astounding’ number of unemployment claims in US had been priced into markets

The pro-Beijing venture capitalist on Trump, China’s rise — and Xi Jinping’s ‘little red app’

As the human and economic damage mounts, old political divides are likely to re-emerge

Player values tumble as Europe’s top teams prepare to cut spending after pandemic weakens revenues

Combination of O2 and Virgin Media set to transform British telecoms market

Citigroup was biggest lender but Deutsche, Barclays and SocGen are also on the hook

Two experts debate whether shift to low carbon can push forward amid economic stress

Corporate bond links income and capital to inflation

Cardholders will receive 3 per cent cashback on fuel

Santander private banking arm’s six-year savings product

New current account offers 3 per cent interest and cashback on bills

A third of self-employed reported working reduced hours during the first two weeks of lockdown

Smart meter group’s IPO boosts hopes of fundraising uptick after lacklustre 2019

Case linked to 2012 nationalisation of oil company proves tricky for litigation funder

Brazilian jet maker to seek damages from US group, which counters it is within its rights to terminate deal

Pledges to donate Covid-19 test kits pour in from groups including Vale and Petrobras

Finding a good credit card deal when you’re older is more difficult

Bank blames low-interest environment and impact of banking regulation

Money matters are a surprise hit on the photo-sharing app

Over 400,000 teenagers will be eligible to claim funds from later this year

Surprise measures on pensions and investing for children lay in the chancellor’s red box

Lockdown presents a golden educational opportunity, particularly if you work in investment

Deaths in England and Wales are highest on record in mid-April while cases in the US surpass 1m

Germany's dominant export sector in record decline, South Korea may be forced to close bars and nightclubs after partygoer is found to have infected at least 14 people

Like other accelerators, Techstars, a network of more than 40 corporate and geographically targeted startup bootcamps, has had to bring its marquee demo day events online. Over the last two weeks of April, industry-focused accelerators working with startups building businesses around mobility technologies (broadly) and the future of the home joined programs in Abu Dhabi, […]

AskRobin, an Estonia-founded fintech that operates a financial services marketplace for “underbanked” customers in Latin America, has picked up $1.7 million in funding. The seed round is backed by VC funds Change Ventures, Vereeni Early Stage Fund, BENE Asia Capital, and Lemonade Stand. In addition, a number of tech entrepreneurs from Estonia participated, such as […]

Banked, a London-based fintech using open banking to enable account-to-account payments at checkout (and beyond), has raised £2.35 million in further seed funding. The round was led by Force Over Mass, with participation from previous investors Backed and Acrew Capital, along with a number of high-net-worth individuals, such as Paul Forster (co-founder of Indeed.com). It […]

A number of UK entrepreneurs have banded together to survey Angels about their investment strategy. The initiative comes in the wake of the UK government’s “Future Fund” for startups, which has been criticized as being inadequate for the needs of Angel and Seed-stage startups. The group hopes the survey will give the UK early-stage investment […]

VC fund Runa Capital was launched with $135 million in 2010, and is perhaps best known for its investment into NGINX, which powers many web sites today. In more recent years it has participated or led investments into startups such as Zipdrug ($10.8 million); Rollbar this year ($11 million); and Monedo (for €20 million). HQ’d […]

Countingup, the business current account that “automates” your accounting, has raised £4 million in self-described bridge funding. Leading the round is ING Ventures, with co-investment from Triple Point, CVentures, and BiG Start Ventures. Founded by Tim Fouracre, who previously founded cloud accounting software Clear Books, and now boasting 20,000 business customers, Countingup’s long term vision […]

Deep Render, a London startup and spin-out of Imperial College that is applying machine learning to image compression, has raised £1.6 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Pentech, with participation from Speedinvest. Founded in mid-2017 by Arsalan Zafar and Chri Besenbruch, who met while studying Computer Science at Imperial College London, Deep Render […]

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

Private lawsuits are a vital tool for upholding standards in the free market system

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

Byju’s, an education learning startup in India that has seen a surge in its popularity in recent weeks amid the coronavirus outbreak, is in talks to raise as much as $400 million in fresh capital at a $10 billion valuation, said three people familiar with the matter. The additional capital would be part of the […]

Happy Saturday and welcome back to an Equity Shot, a short-form episode of Equity where we drill into one particular topic. There was so much news this week in our main areas of focus — startup funding rounds, new venture funds, that sort of thing — that we had to exclude earnings from the main […]

Facebook is expanding its Community Help hub to better serve local communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The hub has already seen significant usage by those requesting food, supplies and information about local resources, as well as use by volunteers and groups willing to lend a hand. Now, Facebook is adding more features to the hub […]

Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners said on Friday it will invest $1.5 billion in Reliance Jio Platforms, joining social conglomerate Facebook and Silver Lake that have also made bets on the Indian telecom giant in recent weeks. The planned announcement, which would give the U.S.-headquartered software-focused buyout firm Vista Equity Partners a 2.32% stake in […]

No surprise, really, that 5G smartphone sales are on the way up. Frankly, there’s really no other way to go, according to the latest numbers from NPD’s Mobile Phone Tracking. The firm noted that 5G handsets accounted for less than 1% of total sales in the U.S. The hurdles are also what you’d expect: namely, […]

In its first-quarter earnings report today, Samsung said it expects the COVID-19 pandemic to continue impacting its business for the rest of the year, cutting into sales for smartphones and TVs, but increasing demand for PCs, servers and memory chips as people continue to work or study from home. Samsung’s results for the first-quarter of […]

Glance, which serves media content, news and casual games on the lock screen of Android -powered smartphones, has amassed 100 million daily active users, it said today. The subsidiary of ad-firm InMobi Group reached the milestone in 21 months in what appears to be the shortest duration for any popular internet service to gain their […]