We have no real sense of how to value stocks in this environment

The hum of the helicopters needs to start getting louder

We may have passed peak uncertainty and there is definitely a reason to start buying again — carefully

Cuts are painful for investors, but don’t write off investment trusts just yet 

‘The old globalised order is fracturing. We are seeing wartime-style falls in GDP’

Technology means small shareholders need not — and should not — be excluded from emergency equity fundraisings

Might we all be better off if government loans were fast converted into equity?

A large problem remains: Washington does not know what it is trying to achieve

The UK is entering a new world, going its own way while superpowers dominate

Favourable trends in employment relative to population are not going to be repeated

Britain’s demands for its negotiations with the EU are unrealistic

The notion of the west as an alliance with moral foundations would evaporate if the president wins

The UK’s dire productivity performance since the financial crisis needs to improve

The FT's chief economics commentator says Boris Johnson's levelling-up mission will come at a cost

Achieving zero emissions by 2050 would require unprecedented global co-operation

Britain’s new chancellor would be wise to treat it as a holding operation

The thrust of the UK chancellor’s Budget is welcome. Yet it will not transform prospects in the near term

As borrowers and spenders of last resort, governments must act now to avert a depression

To avert disaster, solidarity between countries must be as strong as within them

After blundering, the government must admit that the lockdown will not be over in three weeks

To address the pandemic, China and the US must not only function. They must function together

‘We are used to having the grandchildren regularly in our house. When will that happen again? We have no idea. That is painful’

The lockdowns are necessary to get the disease under control — but they must be brief

It is simply another policy tool, neither the royal road to hyperinflation nor a cure-all

A microbe has overthrown our arrogance and sent global output into a tailspin

Pandemic's economic impact compared with historic crises of 1930s and 2008

It has near-unlimited firepower and is the only EU institution willing and able to act

It is not a matter of protecting people ‘or’ the economy but of protecting people ‘and’ the economy

This time it is capital markets, rather than banks, that have to reform

The rich will benefit if we create sustainable demand with less household borrowing

It seems foolish to imagine the UK will swiftly return to life as it was before Covid-19

If you're building a large-scale technology startup, sooner or later, you should be having a conversation about the Indian market.

“I want to build a business which profiles every single researcher and healthcare professional in the world and I want to sell it to industry,” says Ariel Katz, the co-founder and chief executive of H1 Insights.  With the healthcare industry on a mission to digitize and analyze every conceivable data point it can to wring […]

Early Stage SF is around the corner, on April 28 in San Francisco, and we are more than excited for this brand new event. The intimate gathering of founders, VCs, operators and tech industry experts is all about giving founders the tools they need to find success, no matter the challenge ahead of them. Struggling […]

Tech companies are getting so large that Russia is fast-tracking laws aimed at developing "digital sovereignty." How will these regulations affect tech companies looking to do business in the country?

There is a major change ahead for LinkedIn, the social network for the working world, now with 675 million members. Jeff Weiner, who has been leading the company as CEO for the past 11 years, is stepping down on June 1, 2020. His new role will be executive chairman. Ryan Roslansky, who is currently head […]

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Jeff Weiner will step down as CEO of LinkedIn June 1, product head Ryan Roslansky steps up The changes are LinkedIn’s […]

The internet has, for better or worse, become the default platform for people seeking information, and today one of the companies leveraging that to deliver educational content has raised some funding to fuel its next stage of growth. Udemy, which provides a marketplace offering some 150,000 different online learning courses from business analytics to ukulele […]

European Union lawmakers have set out a first bundle of proposals for a new digital strategy for the bloc, one that’s intended to drive digitalization across all industries and sectors — and enable what Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has described as ‘A Europe fit for the Digital Age‘. It could also be summed […]

The lead European Union privacy regulator for most of big tech has put out its annual report which shows another major bump in complaints filed under the bloc’s updated data protection framework, underlining the ongoing appetite EU citizens have for applying their rights. But what the report doesn’t show is any firm enforcement of EU […]

LinkedIn has cornered the market when it comes to putting your own professional profile online and using it to network for jobs, industry connections and professional development. But when it comes to looking at a chart of the people, and specifically the leadership teams, who make up organizations more holistically, the Microsoft-owned network comes up […]

Presidential candidate Joe Biden is likely to throw a fundraising lifeline to Silicon Valley after his commanding South Carolina victory and heading into the next wave of primaries. A pro-Biden Super PAC, Unite the Country — whose past backers include senior tech figures — is picking up efforts to tap wealthy donors, Treasurer Larry Rasky […]

Box has joined a number of tech companies supporting employees to work remotely from home in response  the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. It’s applying the policy to all staff, regardless of location. Late yesterday Box co-founder Aaron Levie tweeted a statement detailing the cloud computing company’s response to COVID-19, the name of the disease caused […]

The right candidate to fill your job may not actually be looking for a job right now. HireSweet, which is part of Y Combinator’s current class of startups, is trying to help companies find exactly these candidates that are perfect for a job but not actively looking. Like so many other recruiting platforms, the HireSweet […]

In an unprecedented move to reassure customers and flag the potential for misinformation about COVID-19 on their platforms, all of the major social media companies and their parent corporations issued a joint statement on their efforts. “We invite other companies to join us as we work to keep our communities healthy and safe,” the statement […]

The dating startup world is notorious for few exits, and a similarly slim number of buyers. There’s Match Group, which owns Tinder, Hinge and OkCupid, and there’s Spark Networks, which owns Christian Mingle, JSwipe, Jdate and Zoosk. Dating.com Group also owns a slew of dating brands, like Dil Mil, a dating app for South Asians. […]

The tech industry is mobilizing its considerable resources to attempt to support efforts against the growing global coronavirus pandemic. Over the weekend, the CEOs of Amazon, Apple and Microsoft all shared updates regarding some aspects of their company’s ongoing contributions, which range from donations of medical supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline healthcare […]

Like many other websites at the moment, the career-oriented networking platform LinkedIn has seen a big boost in traffic as a result of people being asked to work from home and stay indoors overall to slow the spread of the coronavirus, with a bump of 55% more conversational activity between existing connections in recent weeks. […]

LinkedIn has no plans to make COVID-related layoffs until at least the end of June 2020, the professional network has confirmed to TechCrunch. This announcements comes after Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s pledge last month to have no significant layoffs for the next 90 days. Other business leaders such as Bank of America’s CEO Brian Moynihan […]

The pandemic may feel all-encompassing at the moment, but Confluent announced a $250 million Series E today, showing that major investment continues in spite of the dire economic situation at the moment. The company is now valued at $4.5 billion. Today’s round follows last year’s $125 million Series D. At that point the company was […]