A rebranded and expanded version of the CBS All Access streaming service will arrive this summer, ViacomCBS announced this morning. The service, now run by ViacomCBS following the merger, today offers a mix of live TV, on-demand video, original programming, streaming news, local broadcast stations and sports. Now the company is accelerating its plan to […]

When currency traders are nervous, they don’t head for the hills, but for the mountains

The 10 per cent plunge in Enterprise Inns’ share price on Tuesday surprised the company.

Shares in the educational IT provider rose 4.2 per cent

Shares in Mears, a smaller rival, came under pressure, losing 16 per cent of their value within a week

Shares in BG Group, the oil and gas explorer, hit a 30-month high earlier this week

Risk of further bad news from the high street

I am concerned about inheritance tax if my husband and I were to die prematurely

I own a flat in London but I am looking to buy a house further out and commute every day

We would like to extend it beyond its current period of 70 years

I employ 10 people and also own a couple of buy-to-let properties

My mother has early onset dementia and her health is deteriorating rapidly

My ex-husband and I have recently divorced and have a school-aged son

He is making promises to people who care for him by making promises about his will

I am a US citizen who has lived in the UK for nearly 20 years

He has taken money from them and frittered it away over the years after promising he would invest it

My pension will provide for my needs so I won’t need the money

I use an online stock broker to purchase shares in quoted companies 

I own three properties and want to buy another with my new partner

I would like to pay her but am worried the IR35 tax changes in April could complicate matters

I’m still worried about being investigated by HMRC despite the 12-month postponement

We’re in our seventies and want to get our affairs in order quickly

Our household income has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic

We are returning to the UK from the US following the virus outbreak

What are the alternatives to court for a divorcing couple?

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 […]

This week we continue to look at how the coronavirus outbreak is impacting the world of apps, plus the use of live-streaming apps as fundraising tools and more.

Back in March, Apple joined a rapidly growing number of companies announcing an online-only model for their annual tech events. At the time, SVP Phil Schiller promised the event would be “an innovative way to reach millions of developers around the world, bringing the entire developer community together with a new experience,” as planners across […]

The Indian government has said that its contact-tracing app Aarogya Setu “by design” fetches the location data of its 90 million users and allows them to view the concentration of people who have tested positive for the coronavirus in their vicinity. New Delhi issued the statement after France-based security researcher Baptiste Robert found what he […]

Even though Apple did not invent the mouse pointer, history has cemented its place in dragging it out of obscurity and into mainstream use. Its everyday utility, pioneered at SRI and Xerox Parc and later combined with a bit of iconic* work from Susan Kare at Apple, has made the pointer our avatar in digital […]

Autotech Ventures popped on the scene three years ago with a $120 million debut fund and a plan to invest in early-stage ground transportation startups. Now, with investments in 26 startups and a handful of exits, including Xnor.ai, DeepScale and Frontier Car Group, the venture firm is back with a new, bigger fund and the […]

Got something in your medical history that first responders should know about if you call 911? Things like known drug allergies, or the medications you’re on? The iPhone and Apple Watch will soon be able to share this information with first responders automatically (if you opt to let it do so). When a user with […]

Despite the worldwide impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, global smartwatch shipments continued to grow during the first three months of the year, driven by online sales, says a new report by research firm Strategy Analytics. Shipments grew 20% annually to reach 13.7 million units in the first quarter of 2020, up from 11.4 million units […]

The UK may be rethinking its decision to shun Apple and Google’s API for its national coronavirus contacts tracing app, according to the Financial Times, which reported yesterday that the government is paying an IT supplier to investigate whether it can integrate the tech giants’ approach after all. As we’ve reported before coronavirus contacts tracing […]

Apple has awarded $10 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics, a company focused on producing sample collection kits for testing COVID-19 to hospitals in the U.S. The money comes from the fund that Apple established to support the development and growth of U.S.-based manufacturing, but is particularly notable because to date, the […]

With the new MacBook, Apple closes one of the more unfortunate product chapters in its history. The upgraded 13-inch mercifully marks the end of the failed five-year experiment that was the butterfly switch. I won’t go into too much detail here. If you’ve purchased a MacBook in the past several years, you almost certainly know […]

Lofty ideas about open economies will have to be sold on directly improving voters’ lives

In a choice between discussing the WTO and the WHO, I’d take a rules-of-origin trade debate any day

’I’m on my second day, drinking too much coffee and feeling I’d enjoy it more if everyone else wasn’t here too’

Our streets are almost empty, our houses full of people — and self-employed operators still aren’t covered 

All the opposition can do now is ask the right questions and be seen to behave responsibly

With police enforcing the lockdown, it may mean new roles for some old telly favourites

Coronavirus lockdown limits celebration of one of Judaism’s most festive occasions

No family song on Facebook, no dance routine, no home-grown tomatoes… is it time to raise our game?

The UK prime minister’s brush with death has deepened his ties with voters

Post-lockdown, technology could help us contain Covid-19. But why stop there?

The attempt to set up gender equality and ethnic diversity as the enemies of prosperity is telling

Whether on pocket money or holidays, I see the wisdom in refusing to discuss important decisions

Those with the fewest rights are least able to demand a safe workplace