Digital wallet fraud: how your bank card can be stolen without it leaving your wallet Fraudsters use phishing to steal card details, which fund a spending spree using Apple Pay or Google Pay
China’s BYD overtakes Tesla as world’s biggest electric car seller Sales at Elon Musk’s company slump after Donald Trump’s withdrawal of EV subsidies
Uber rewrites contracts with drivers to avoid paying UK’s new ‘taxi tax’ Hailing app will now act as agent rather than supplier outside London, avoiding VAT requirement
‘Social listening’: Unilever seeks to capitalise on Vaseline’s TikTok moment Multinational boosts online chatter after social media users showcase product’s widespread use in life hacks
Tesla publishes analyst forecasts suggesting sales set to fall Tesla endured tough year in part thanks to some consumers’ distaste for Elon Musk’s embrace of rightwing politics
ITV agrees to invest £3m in fitness app created by Joe Wicks The Body Coach app, launched in pandemic, will advertise on ITV’s channels and video platform ITVX under deal
Elon Musk’s 2025 recap: how the world’s richest person became its most chaotic How the tech CEO and ‘Dogefather’ made a mess of the year – from his White House tenure to an apparent Nazi salute
Trump family business delays launch of $499 gold smartphone US-made device planned by end of year hit by recent government shutdown affecting shipments
Octopus Energy to sell stake in software spin-off Kraken at $8.65bn valuation CEO of Britain’s biggest household energy supplier says technology arm could float in the medium term
‘Why should we pay these criminals?’: the hidden world of ransomware negotiations Cybersecurity experts reveal what they do for high-profile clients targeted by hackers such as Scattered Spider
UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating Candidates will have to sit assessments in person unless there are exceptional circumstances, says ACCA
Louis Gerstner, man credited with turning around IBM, dies aged 83 Gerstner was chair and CEO at a time when the firm was struggling for relevance faced with rivals such as Microsoft
Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith The chipmaker’s sprawling partnerships are driving extraordinary growth but also bank its future on the AI boom paying off quickly
Labour must learn lessons from history as automation hits jobs market Productivity is up in retail and other low-paying sectors as tech replaces relatively expensive humans
AI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025 Elon Musk’s net worth increased by nearly 50% to $645bn with founders of Google and Amazon also seeing huge wealth gains