Nick Clegg has sold almost $19m in Meta shares since joining Facebook in 2018
Former UK deputy prime minister, who still has about $21m worth, is leaving role as president of global affairs
Getting creative: African YouTubers and TikTokers search for ways to make it pay
The £2.4bn sector is thriving, says a new report, as online demand grows for authentic cultural content created outside the global north – but there are still challenges
Tesla shares fall as company reports first decline in annual deliveries
Reduced European subsidies, a US shift to lower-priced hybrids and Chinese competition have squeezed EV maker
UK government hires ‘nudge unit’ to help dispel heat pump myths
Behaviour experts say misinformation shared in media and by other stakeholders is impeding uptake
‘Preying on investors’: how software firm MicroStrategy’s big bet on bitcoin went stratospheric
Company’s share price has risen twentyfold after it changed its strategy to become first ‘bitcoin treasury company’
The most important tech stories of 2024, and also my favorite ones
Today, we’re looking at a few themes that will influence the online and offline worlds in 2025
How a batch of tinned meat fostered fears of the millennium bug
Computer system errors led to huge costs for countries as they prepared for potential disaster
Can flood of cheap new EVs coming to Europe save its carmakers?
Analysts argue 2024 is minor blip and that lobbying for relaxation of rules could harm industry in long term
If crypto is incorporated into Australia’s financial system, we will be lucky to avoid contagious collapse
As soon as people decide that crypto is valueless, it will be – but in the next few years, exposure of traditional institutions will likely run into the hundreds of billions
End of the lines? QR-style codes could replace barcodes ‘within two years’
Retailers already trialling next-generation codes that can show sell-by dates, product instructions and ingredients
AI tools may soon manipulate people’s online decision-making, say researchers
Study predicts an ‘intention economy’ where companies bid for accurate predictions of human behaviour
Britain will never be great again until we stop flogging our top companies to the US
Tech selloffs not only cost tax revenue and jobs, but are turning the UK into a vassal state
How will AI reshape 2025? Well, it could be the spreadsheet of the 21st century
Large language models have changed how big corporations function, and the arrival of AI ‘agents’ – essentially automated Moneypennys – could prove irresistible
OpenAI lays out plan to shift to for-profit corporate structure
AI company, which makes ChatGPT, says in blogpost ‘we once again need to raise more capital than we’d imagined’
Michael Adex: the entrepreneur aiming to inspire black-founded tech startups
Manchester-raised entertainment mogul is ambassador for scheme helping businesses in creative industries succeed