Berkshire Hathaway Scores An $8 Billion Gain On American Express

August 4, 2021
At the last count, Berkshire Hathaway owned 152 million shares of American Express, giving the company a 19% stake. American Express’ stock price has rocketed this year, raising the value of Berkshire Hathaway's position to $26 billion, up from $18 billion at the start of 2021.  This year, the financial services group has been one […]
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Bill And Melinda Gates Finalise Their Divorce After 27 Years Of Marriage

August 3, 2021
Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates were one of the most prominent couples in global business, working together at Microsoft between 1987 and 1996. The couple married in 1994 and launched the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000. However, more recently, Melinda expressed her discomfort with her husband’s connection with billionaire investor and convicted […]
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Elon Musk To Set Up SpaceX Starlink Broadband Base On The Isle Of Man

August 3, 2021
The SpaceX subsidiary is in the final stages of securing a licence to establish a ground station on the Isle of Man. The company has already acquired the right to use particular spectrum bands, has acquired a telecoms licence, and has received the go-ahead to install equipment on the island. Alongside its bases in Cornwall […]
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Jack Dorsey’s Square Buys Afterpay For $29 Billion

August 2, 2021
Square and Afterpay have entered into a “Scheme Implementation Deed” under which Square will acquire all of the issued shares in Afterpay. The transaction will be paid entirely in stock and is estimated to have a value of $29 billion.  Like many other buy-now-pay-later companies, Afterpay has thrived during the pandemic as more shoppers have […]
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Tech Tycoon Xavier Niel Hits $10 Billion Net Worth Amid Plans To Take Iliad Private

August 2, 2021
On Friday, Xavier Niel announced a “simplified public tender” offer for Iliad shares at an offer price of $216 per share. The proposal saw a 61% increase for the stock on the Euronext Paris, boosting Niel’s net worth by $3 billion up to an estimated net worth of $10.4 billion. Niel owns approximately 70% of […]
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OZEN RESERVE BOLIFUSHI - As Close to Paradise As You Can Get

July 30, 2021
With infinite stretches of white-sand beaches and a glistering azure lagoon, OZEN RESERVE BOLIFUSHI looks exactly like every image of the Maldives you’ve ever lusted over. We arrive at the island on a super luxurious catamaran and are greeted with cool towels, hand-crafted palm-leaf necklaces, kurumbas (or fresh coconuts), music, a traditional welcome feet scrub […]
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Robinhood’s Founders & How to Start a Revolution

July 30, 2021
On 29 July, after a bumpy few months and a fair share of troubled headlines, Robinhood founders Vlad Tenev, 34 and Baiju Bhatt, 36 each sold around $50 million worth of stock. The mobile-friendly discount brokerage, which pioneered commission-free stock trades, generated a profit of just under $2 billion in its public market debut. Following […]
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How to Make Hybrid Working Work for Your Business

July 30, 2021
The huge rise in hybrid working in the UK brought about by the impact of COVID-19 has seen individuals, teams and organisations work part of their time at their normal workplace and part of it remotely. For instance, NatWest Bank recently announced that nearly 90% of its workforce will take part in hybrid working, with […]
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Is it Time to Reset Management?

July 30, 2021
First, hierarchical bureaucracy is geared for predictability and risk avoidance. With digital ending up blurring industry boundaries unexpectedly, (de)globalisation and other social changes, turbulence becomes the norm. In a turbulent environment, practices are emergent; they escape replication. Cause and effect are often only discernible in retrospect. Risk management should give way to uncertainty management. Second, […]
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“Our Real-Time is Mostly Driven by Data”

July 30, 2021
Or Lenchner, CEO of Bright Data, tells us what this means…
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‘The Best Employer in the World’: What Went Wrong at Brewdog?

July 30, 2021
From then on, I have loved Brewdog’s many varied products, from Nanny State to Thunderbird. I was impressed with them when they brought out a beer in protest of the anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Russia during the Sochi 2014 games. Beer for activism, who would have thought! And the idea of ‘pawternity’ leave (1 week’s paid […]
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Putting Data at the Heart of Innovation: The Role of the CEO

July 30, 2021
Data sits at the epicentre of innovation. With businesses accelerating their operations at pace, CEOs need to reassess their assumptions towards data and leverage its potential to remain competitive. After all, data isn’t there to justify decisions already made – it’s there to help us improve as we move forward.  Here, Zhiwei Jiang, CEO of […]
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