Yesterday
Employment jumps; No Fed bailouts coming; ASX pressured on James Hardie
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Bill Gates enters race to build mini nuclear reactors in Britain
The billionaire’s new company, TerraPower, is looking to break into an increasingly competitive market to build small modular reactors
March
WiseTech shareholders just one cheeseburger away from the void
Richard White’s blind confidence in his own understanding of people – learned from those psychology books he recommends to women on LinkedIn – is deeply misplaced.
December 2024
Victoria’s asset sale; MinRes’ gag request; Wesfarmers’ rates alert
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Bill Gates believes the world is at a dangerous tipping point
The philanthropist has been fighting global disease for 25 years. He is now wrestling with the optimist’s dilemma.
November 2024
ASIC’s Joe Longo named Time climate crusader
This feels like 2011, when Euromoney opened our eyes to the charms of Wayne Swan.
October 2024
Billionaires bankroll the hunt for nuclear energy’s ‘holy grail’
The massive power demands of AI have triggered a round of frantic deal-making as companies battle for uninterrupted supplies.
Why Microsoft Excel won’t die
The spreadsheet program has entered its 40th year, although those forced to use it won’t necessarily be celebrating.
September 2024
More US cleantech companies close as fundraising challenges emerge
Start-up cleantech businesses that easily raised money from venture firms just two or three years ago are now finding it harder to get hold of fresh cash.
August 2024
Joy for ‘Britain’s Bill Gates’ and lawyers ends in superyacht tragedy
Just weeks after a huge courtroom victory, UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch is among seven people, including a Morgan Stanley executive, missing off Palermo’s coast.
July 2024
Tech meltdown revealed a fundamental flaw in plain sight
The global CrowdStrike breakdown revealed just how much of the global IT system is built on inherently unsafe code.
Kardashian, Blair, Tyson: Global elite flock to Ambani mega-wedding
A pantheon of global celebrities, politicians and CEOs are descending on India’s financial capital for the wedding of the son of Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani.
June 2024
Warren Buffett donates record $8b in shares to charity
Warren Buffett has made his biggest annual donation since he began making them in 2006.
May 2024
Melinda French Gates exits philanthropic foundation with $18.9b
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -– to be known as the Gates Foundation once she departs – is one of the biggest private foundations on the planet.
April 2024
‘Country mile ahead’: How PsiQuantum won a $1b investment
Chief scientist Cathy Foley said US-based PsiQuantum showed it was a “country mile” ahead of other Aussie companies in trying to build a world-first quantum computer.
‘AI honeymoon is over’, Canva co-founder declares
Just two years after the last technology bubble burst, investors shouldn’t mistake AI tools that look like magic for a business model that is.
March 2024
Bill Gates’ TerraPower plans to build first US next-generation nuclear plant
TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque said the company would apply for a construction permit from US regulators this month for its reactor, cooled with liquid sodium.
Gates, Zuckerberg join billionaire’s lavish Indian wedding party
Tycoons from around the world descended on a small Indian city where billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani kick-started wedding celebrations for his son.
Gates, Fink, Zuckerberg set to party with Asia’s richest man
The lavish pre-wedding celebrations for Mukesh Ambani’s son include chartered jets and a performance by Rihanna. Wall Street and Silicon Valley titans are coming.
February 2024
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has become a Steve Jobs-like tech giant
Now a Wall Street hero, Nadella initially faced scepticism that he could change Microsoft’s combative culture after 22 years inside the company.