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Wednesday, 27 May, 2020

Uber Technologies Inc
Uber scraps thousands of electric bikes after Lime deal
Environmental fallout as start-up focuses on areas where it can operate profitably
3 hours ago
Sunday, 24 May, 2020

Games industry
Russian brothers behind ‘Gardenscapes’ emerge as lockdown winners
Igor and Dmitry Bukhman’s mobile gaming enterprise generated almost 100m downloads in April
Saturday, 23 May, 2020

Tech start-ups
Former Apple designer to launch rival to HomePod and Sonos
Christopher Stringer spent 20 years with Jony Ive’s design team before leaving to found Syng
Wednesday, 20 May, 2020

Shopify
Shopify accelerates online shopping services to take advantage of crisis
Canada-based ecommerce platform pushes into groceries and offers new tools to retailers
Tuesday, 19 May, 2020

easyJet PLC
EasyJet says hackers accessed travel details of 9m customers
Low-cost airline faces fines after systems were breached by ‘highly sophisticated’ actor
Tuesday, 19 May, 2020

FT MagazineGaming
On Zoom, no one can see your sneakers
But the market for virtual fashion is booming on Animal Crossing and cycling app Zwift
Monday, 18 May, 2020

UK business & economy
UK start-ups in line for £250m co-investment initiative
Government will take stakes by converting coronavirus bailout loans into equity through ‘Future Fund’
Monday, 18 May, 2020

EU state aid
EU state aid rules hinder tech bailouts, say industry groups
Trade associations in France, Germany, UK and Ireland ask Brussels for more flexibility
Wednesday, 13 May, 2020

Coronavirus
UK contact-tracing app risks excluding millions, warn advisers
Ethics board overseeing program fears many will not have up-to-date smartphones — or any device at all
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Tuesday, 12 May, 2020

Special ReportFT The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
Niantic tops FT list of high-growth companies
‘Pokémon Go’ maker crafts plan to become the go-to provider of augmented reality tech
Friday, 8 May, 2020

Technology sector
UK starts to build second contact tracing app
NHS team told to build alternative on system being developed by Apple and Google
Thursday, 7 May, 2020

Neutron Holdings
Uber leads $170m investment in Lime
Deal will see e-scooter rental service take over Uber’s e-bike division Jump
Wednesday, 6 May, 2020

National Health Service
NHS tracing app in question as experts assess Google-Apple model
Swiss firm hired to test mainstream software despite launch of go-it-alone system
Wednesday, 6 May, 2020

Shopify
Shopify surges as retailers rush online
Shares at Canadian ecommerce group hit high as revenues jump 47%
Tuesday, 5 May, 2020

Coronavirus: free to read
How the UK’s unique coronavirus tracing app works
NHS bosses hope central database will be more useful than Google and Apple’s approach
Monday, 4 May, 2020

Coronavirus
UK launches tracing app to combat coronavirus
Isle of Wight to be testing ground for technology, but NHS digital chief warns it is not a ‘silver bullet’
Friday, 1 May, 2020

Data protection
Europe split over approach to virus contact tracing apps
Different proposals raise questions about interoperability between app platforms
Thursday, 30 April, 2020

Technology sector
Why Silicon Valley is surviving the pandemic ad crash
Facebook and Google show resilience through the crisis thanks to uptick in ‘direct response’ ads
Tuesday, 28 April, 2020

FT CollectionsBest of this week’s opinion
Coronavirus apps: the risk of a surveillance state
Governments are weighing a trade-off between the effectiveness of tech solutions to track the pandemic and privacy
Thursday, 23 April, 2020

Takeaway.com
UK competition watchdog approves Just Eat-Takeaway.com merger
£6bn deal cleared days after Amazon’s investment in rival Deliveroo was also approved
Wednesday, 22 April, 2020

Magic Leap
Magic Leap halves headcount in struggle for survival
US augmented-reality start-up raised $2.3bn but struggled to gain traction with product
Wednesday, 22 April, 2020

Nintendo Co Ltd
Nintendo’s ‘Animal Crossing’ leads lockdown boom in video gaming
Whimsical island fantasy beats ‘Call of Duty’ in March sales as game spending jumps by a third
Tuesday, 21 April, 2020

FT MagazineTechnology
Lessons for Zoom from Chatroulette, the original live video site
Unwelcome and even unclothed intruders were an early glitch tech companies failed to fix
Monday, 20 April, 2020

Tech start-ups
Government launches £1.25bn plan to help struggling UK start-ups
Joint investments with venture capital and grants for R&D seen as backing key sectors for recovery
Monday, 20 April, 2020

Coronavirus
2bn phones cannot use Google and Apple contact-tracing tech
System developed by Silicon Valley relies on technology missing from older handsets