Technology

Andreessen Horowitz has launched a $4.5bn cryptocurrency fund, making its biggest bet yet on the future of blockchain technology despite...

Short sellers are reaping a bumper harvest in the tech sector sell-off. S3 Partners, a technology and data analytics firm,...

Despite boasting just a few weeks ago of a 60 per cent rise in “upfront commitments” from advertising partners, Snap’s...

Things are going south fast for social media, with Snap warning overnight of a rapid deterioration over the past month...

Convertible bonds sold by high-flying tech companies last year have plummeted, in a stark illustration of how turbulence sweeping financial...

Another US tech group is biting the dust in China. Airbnb will close its business there after years of heavy...

As nightlife returns in most parts of the world, it is easy to laugh at the prospect of spending Friday...

Amazon shareholders will challenge the company on executive pay, tax transparency, working conditions and unionisation, as chief executive Andy Jassy...

Snap does not have much luck with gadgets. Video recording glasses first sold in 2016 led to a near $40mn...

Snap lost nearly a third of its value on Monday after the social media group said in an unscheduled earnings...

Airbnb will close its domestic business in China this year, removing all listings by the summer and retreating after a...

Chinese ride-hailing group Didi has notified the New York Stock Exchange it will move to delist in the US after...

BNP Paribas has joined JPMorgan in using digital tokens for short-term trading in fixed income markets as some of the...

The UK government faces trial in the High Court next month over its award of an £854mn contract for a...

The chief executive of JSR, one of the world’s largest suppliers of a material critical for semiconductor production, has said...

Technology often transcends borders. The internet is the clearest example: a network encircling the globe, connecting billions of people for...

At a Twitter staff retreat in early 2020, Jack Dorsey, the company’s co-founder and then chief executive, invited a star...

Modern smartphones are thousands of times more powerful than the supercomputers of a few decades ago. But they are puny...

One Saturday in 2016, I rushed into a hospital where my father, who had collapsed at home, was lying barely...

US tech companies prefer flexible, intermittent buybacks to dividends. Dividends set an expectation for regular handouts. Buybacks can be ratcheted...