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  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Special ReportG7: Japan
    AI will test faith in democracy, Tokyo warns

    Taro Kono, Japan’s digital minister, says elections could be targeted by ‘malicious elements’

  • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
    Europe Express
    Why the EU’s latest defence idea will bend its own rules Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: ECB policy time; and who should police EU digital rules?

  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
    Special Report
    The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies

    The FT’s fourth annual ranking of the region’s businesses by revenue growth. Plus: companies with the ‘last-mover advantage’; cannabis corporations on the rise; is Moderna a one trick pony?

  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
    Helen Thomas
    Threats to undersea cables should worry business as well as government

    Companies that rely on these networks have little understanding of the system’s resilience to attack

  • Saturday, 22 April, 2023
    Leo Lewis
    Gen-X bankers warn Gen-Z content creators: don’t give up the day job

    Revenues are concentrated among a few megastars, with a yawning gap where a mid-level decent income might be

  • Monday, 17 April, 2023
    Sarah Myers West
    Competition authorities need to move fast and break up AI

    Unless regulators act, Big Tech’s dominance over the digital economy will be cemented

  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    FT Tech for Growth Forum
    The rise of the platform economy

    Every company should have a strategy to help it grow outside its home market, both geographically and across product lines

  • Friday, 10 February, 2023
    Claer Barrett
    Could a digital pound pay off for consumers?

    The Bank of England’s ‘Britcoin’ project could transform transactions — but questions about who gains from our data remain

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    Watches & Jewellery
    Finematter digital certificates smooth way for circular jewellery economy

    Platform aims to increase transparency on provenance of pieces from smaller makers, boosting resale potential

  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    Hector Torres
    Advocates for friendshoring have not reckoned with digital trade

    Determining whether bytes originated in a ‘friendly country’ is painstaking work

  • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
    Government of Italy
    European Commission attacks Italy’s support for cash transactions

    Brussels warns prime minister Giorgia Meloni not to undermine tax evasion fight

  • Sunday, 11 December, 2022
    Cryptocurrencies
    Investors withdraw record levels of coins from crypto exchanges

    Traders rush for exits alarmed at safety of their assets after FTX filed for bankruptcy

  • Sunday, 4 December, 2022
    Italian economy
    Meloni pushes back on Italy’s shift into digital payments age

    Brussels may resist plan to give businesses the right to demand cash for low-value transactions

  • Monday, 28 November, 2022
    Rana Foroohar
    Digital trade must not become a zero-sum game

    The danger for policymakers is that information has a tendency to be monopolised

  • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
    Special ReportNext Tech Growth Markets
    FT-Omdia Digital Economies Index: tomorrow’s top tech growth markets

    Vietnam heads this year’s list of the world’s fastest-growing digital economies

  • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
    Behind the Money podcast19 min listen
    What FTX’s collapse means for crypto

    The crypto exchange’s swift descent into bankruptcy shocked the financial industry. FT reporters explain what went wrong, and what it all means

  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    FTX Trading Ltd
    Sam Bankman-Fried apologises for FTX crisis

    Crypto exchange’s chief admits venue did not have funds to meet surge in withdrawals

  • Friday, 4 November, 2022
    Edward Stringer
    Putin knows that undersea cables are the west’s Achilles heel

    Moscow has invested in subsurface naval capabilities that hold the world’s internet infrastructure at risk

  • Friday, 28 October, 2022
    Who killed the social media ad boom?

    A decade of breakneck growth has ground to a halt and there are plenty of suspects beyond the slowing global economy

  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    Greg Peters
    Hitting content providers with internet tolls would damage the web ecosystem

    Entertainment is not a cost that ISPs have to bear — it generates the demand they need for growth

  • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    The stubborn persistence of paper in a digital world

    People still like doing business face to face

  • Monday, 17 October, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    EU weighs paying for Musk’s donated Starlink internet service in Ukraine

    Member states suggest formalising SpaceX contract after billionaire threatened to end the service

  • Monday, 25 July, 2022
    Telecoms
    Global shortage of fibre optic cable threatens digital growth

    Rising prices of critical components cast shadow over 5G rollout and development of data centres

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Asia-Pacific companies
    Call for entries: High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2023

    Apply for a place in the fifth annual FT ranking, compiled with Statista

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Special ReportUpskilling
    Fast-changing world creates training challenge

    New industries will require new knowhow — but shortfalls in more basic skills also need to be remedied

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