Or Bokobza, the chief executive of residential software start-up Venn, has barely spoken to his colleagues for the last week. As a reserve member of an elite combat unit in the Israeli military, he has been in the field since almost immediately after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on
Until last weekend, Be’eri in southern Israel was known for its residents’ relative affluence thanks to their shared ownership of a printing company in the town. Now, it is the scene of an atrocity. The kibbutz, only 5km from the Gaza border, witnessed some of the most horrific violence carried out by Hamas militants during
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Since taking office two years ago, Antony Blinken has tackled some of the most complicated challenges to face a modern US secretary of state, including cleaning up the diplomatic mess after the US’s precipitous Afghanistan
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Steve Scalise has withdrawn from the race to become Speaker of the House of Representatives, in a surprise move that underscores the chronic dysfunction in the Republican party and raises fresh doubts about lawmakers’ ability
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Senior US officials have vowed to stop $6bn in Iranian funds held in a Qatari account from being transferred to Tehran without Washington’s consent, as they tried to defuse a bipartisan political backlash over the
Indicators: China is set to publish its September consumer and producer price indices as well as trade balance figures on Friday. Singapore is expected to release its third-quarter gross domestic product figures. Earnings: Ryohin Keikaku, owner of Japanese retailer Muji, will on Friday report its financial results for the 2023 fiscal year ending September 1.
One of the developers working on “BitVM” — a Bitcoin-based virtual machine — reiterates the tech is intended to scale Bitcoin rather than launching Ethereum-like decentralized finance applications on the network. BitVM’s whitepaper was released by ZeroSync’s project lead Robin Linus on Oct. 10 with technical support provided by pseudonymous developer “Super Testnet” — implementing
In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google has opened its first west coast visitor Experience” center which is located by its Mountain View headquarters. Mark Wickens Google is opening a sliver of its main campus to the general public starting this week. The company opened its doors to what it’s calling
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alameda chief executive Caroline Ellison told her staff that Sam Bankman-Fried authorised a raid on FTX customer money to repay the trading firm’s loans, according to recordings of an employee meeting from the company’s final
Decentralized crypto exchange Uniswap launched a closed beta Android version of its mobile app on Oct. 12, according to a blog post from the app’s development team. Uniswap has previously only been available on PC and iOS mobile devices. “WEN ANDROID?” How about now? The Uniswap wallet is coming to Android users The beta is
Municipals were mixed Thursday, outperforming U.S. Treasuries, which saw larger losses following a higher-than-anticipated inflation report, while more outflows from muni mutual funds were reported. U.S. Treasuries sold off after the consumer price index report showed inflation rising, paring back gains after several sessions of a flight-to-safety bid amid the violence in Israel. Equities ended
Social media app Stars Arena has recovered approximately 90% of the funds it lost after being exploited, according to an October 11 announcement from the team on X (formerly Twitter). The recovery occurred after four days of on-chain negotiations, blockchain data shows. The attacker was allowed to keep slightly more than 10% of the funds
Inside Gaza’s Dar al-Shifa hospital, the main medical facility in the besieged Palestinian territory, the exhausted doctors treating victims of Israel’s bombardment struggle with crippling power shortages, ageing equipment and dwindling supplies. Not only the wounded descend on the hospital. Its corridors throng with Gazan families seeking a safe haven from Israeli air strikes that
Bitcoin (BTC) faced a 4.9% correction in the four days following the failure to break the $28,000 resistance on Oct. 8, and derivatives metrics show fear is dominating sentiment in the market, but will it be enough to shake Bitcoin price from its current range? Looking at the bigger picture, Bitcoin is holding up admirably,
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched a civil rights investigation into Alabama’s Department of Environmental Management after reviewing complaints of discrimination in the distribution of federal funds. In a letter addressed to ADEM Director Lance Lefluer, the EPA said it would launch a probe into state policy concerning distributions from a federally backed sewage
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The cost of building the London-to-Birmingham stretch of the UK’s HS2 high-speed railway has jumped by a fifth in just four months, underlining the challenges the government still faces in delivering the troubled project. Last
Prospective buyers visit an open house for sale in Alexandria, Virginia. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The housing market is dealing with a number of “tricky” dynamics, according to Tracy Kasper, the president of the National Association of Realtors. “What we’ve experienced over the last probably 12 to 18 months is what I really like to
It’s a dilemma many homeowners and interior designers have faced. Whether to paint a room, install wallpaper, or both. One of the challenges of choosing both is trying to find the right wallpaper to coordinate with a specific color or vice versa. Fortunately, Farrow & Ball has found a way to solve this conundrum in
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU has opened an investigation into X, formerly Twitter, over the way illegal content and disinformation of terrorist and violent content is spreading on its platform in the wake of the attacks by Hamas
Issuers focused on boosting ESG scores through mitigation efforts must face the hard fact that climate risk trumps being prepared. “There could be a point where the materiality of this risk is greater than the ability to prepare or the ability to manage it,” said Nora Wittstruck, senior director, ESG sector leader, S&P Global Ratings. “It becomes
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jes Staley, the former Barclays boss, has received the first regulatory ban for actions taken as chief executive of a major UK bank after he allegedly misled the watchdog about his past relationship with Jeffrey