Spangle, an AI e-commerce startup founded by former Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla, has raised $15 million in a new funding round, valuing the company at $100 million after the investment. Led by NewRoad Capital Partners, the all-equity Series A round comes over a year after the Seattle-based startup raised a $6 million seed round at … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Two words now sum up European policy towards Donald Trump’s United States: strategic supplication. The countries of Nato, including the UK, will render unto Caesar that which he declares to be his — … Read more
Binance has launched new perpetual futures contracts tied to gold and silver, expanding the crypto exchange’s derivatives offering beyond digital assets as demand grows for exposure to traditional safe-haven markets. Binance said Thursday it has introduced gold and silver perpetual futures that allow investors to trade the metals around the clock without an expiration date. … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: The Zurich Film Festival is honoring Swiss director Petra Volpe in LA on Monday 12 January with the festival’s Golden Eye Award for her film Late Shift. The award will be presented alongside an FYC screening of the movie, which is currently shortlisted for the Best International Feature Film Oscar. Late Shift, which was … Read more
Wyoming launched a state-backed stablecoin on Solana, and Morgan Stanley filed for a Solana trust product this week. Last month, Visa expanded USDC settlement to run on Solana rails, and JPMorgan tokenized commercial paper using Solana for part of the settlement stack. These are not rumors or roadmap promises. They happened over 60 days, and … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. HSBC has agreed to pay just over €300mn in fines and back taxes in France to settle a dividend fraud investigation as financial prosecutors pursue banks over “cum-cum” trades. HSBC will pay €267mn to French … Read more
New TVs from TCL and Hisense, like the TCL X11L, are closing the performance gap to those from Sony, LG, and Samsung. For all the time that I’ve been covering technology, there’s been a hierarchy when it comes to TV brands. The big three – Sony, Samsung, and LG – have been on top for … Read more
Every day, TVLine’s What to Watch column spotlights new and returning English-language shows (and select movies) premiering or airing fresh episodes across broadcast, cable and streaming — organized below by release time and alphabetically within each slot. On TV this Thursday: “The Pitt” scrubs back in, “The … Read more
President Donald Trump has no shame in admitting what he wants to get out of attacking Venezuela and threatening other energy resource-rich nations. “We’re gonna get the oil flowing the way it should be,” he said January 3rd, soon after his administration stunned the world with what many policy experts and Democratic lawmakers are calling … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Hundreds of thousands of landlords and self-employed people could be caught out by new rules around filing their taxes digitally in 2026, as awareness of the “biggest change in a generation” remains low, advisers warned. … Read more