“They’re pretty broad, experience-based auctions that we’ve been doing for a little while, and it’s been successful. This time we probably raised over $100,000,” says Hanazawa, who co-founded the organization alongside Julie Gilhart, Miki Higasa, and Tomoko Ogura in 2011 in response to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Since then, they’ve raised funds for a … Read more
Gold and silver briefly reclaimed their spot as the two biggest assets by market capitalization as the new year rolled in with uncertainty. According to data from analytics platform CompaniesMarketCap, gold currently has a market cap of $31.1 trillion, sitting at the top spot. Silver, which has been trading places with Nvidia for second place … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chevron and private equity group Quantum Energy Partners are teaming up on a bid to buy the international assets of sanctioned Russian oil company Lukoil. If a deal is clinched, Chevron and Quantum plan to … Read more
A year on from the fires that devastated Los Angeles, Vogue Business takes stock of fashion’s recovery and rebuilding efforts as part of our series, Refashioning LA, assessing where the city’s fashion and apparel industry is headed in 2026. For the next few weeks, Hollywood will briefly feel like Hollywood again. Awards season has kicked … Read more
Ripple’s payment token, XRP, has just been labelled by CNBC as the “new cryptocurrency darling” after gaining 25% in the first week of the new year. “The hottest crypto trade of the year is not Bitcoin, it is not Ether, it is XRP,” said CNBC;s Power Lunch host Brian Sullivan on Tuesday. XRP price surges … Read more
Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, stars of Heated Rivalry, are set to present at the 2026 Golden Globes, a source at the Golden Globes confirmed to Deadline. The duo is set to take the stage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, where the 83rd Golden Globe Awards are set to take place. … Read more
A year on from the fires that devastated Los Angeles, Vogue Business takes stock of fashion’s recovery and rebuilding efforts as part of our series, Refashioning LA, assessing where the city’s fashion and apparel industry is headed in 2026. LA has long had a robust fashion and beauty industry, despite what some may think. Luxury … Read more
Washington hopes Nicolás Maduro’s capture will hasten the downfall of the ossified communist regime in Havana
Paris-based Together Fund, which was launched last year with a mission to support Europe’s independent film and TV production sector, has chosen Belgium’s biggest production house Caviar for its first investment. Under the operation, the equity fund has supported a management buyout, set in motion by majority shareholder Belgian telecommunications group Telenet’s decision to sell … Read more
Ethereum scalability was boosted on Wednesday with the second Blob Parameter-Only hard fork, raising the blob limit from 15 to 21, the first of many improvements aimed at scaling the Ethereum ecosystem in 2026. The second BPO hard fork, which took effect on Wednesday at 1:01:11 UTC, further increases Ethereum’s data throughput by allowing more transactions … Read more