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Businesses left asking - what happened to growth? - BBC News
Not a single measure in the government's policy-packed Budget will change the growth forecast for the next five years - that was the damning assessment of the government's official forecaster, the Office for Budget Reponsibility (OBR). For a…
Aerospace and defense startups have raised over $19 billion this year. Here are the top deals of 2025.
Defense and aerospace startups have already raised more than $19 billion in 2025, according to data firm PitchBook. This comes as the Pentagon, under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, calls for a total overhaul of the military's acquisition system to…
Simon Says, Ethereum Is 57% Undervalued
Simon Kim, founder of venture capital firm Hashed, has introduced a real-time dashboard that estimates Ethereum's fair value at $4,747.4. With Ethereum trading at $3,022.3, the tool suggests an undervaluation of 56.9%. The dashboard updates every…
What the head of IBM's $500 million AI and quantum venture fund is looking for in a startup
Emily Fontaine is the global head of venture capital at IBM. The company's venture fund, IBM Ventures, is a $500 million fund currently focused mostly on AI and quantum computing. So far it has made 23 investments in companies including Hugging…
Finance's outdated view of women holding back female founders
Women make up around half of the world's population. There is no field of endeavour in which women are not achieving, from tech to fashion to AI. And yet, the world of finance still does not back women entrepreneurs or support female-led…
Funding for San Diego startups tumbles to smallest quarterly investment total in 8 years
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... San Diego County startups raised only $590 million in the third quarter, a 60% drop compared to a year ago and the smallest quarterly investment total in eight years. The number of deals told a similar…
Outdoor Voices founder says energy drink investor cost her Target deal
Entrepreneur Ty Haney claims Sinco Inc., a Boulder investment firm, cost her energy drink company a $1 million deal with Target this year by “overpromising and underperforming.” (Instagram) Boulder entrepreneur Ty Haney claims an…
Here are the billionaires and businesspeople Donald Trump has pardoned
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump made the most traditional pardons when he granted clemency to Waddle and Gobble, two turkeys, before jetting off to celebrate Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago. During his second term in office, Trump has issued…
10 Irish start-ups living the American dream this Thanksgiving
SiliconRepublic.com keeps a keen eye on Irish start-ups. Here's 10 we spoke about this year that are living it up in the US. Today (27 November), families across the US are celebrating Thanksgiving – a day to come together and show gratitude…
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[Finance Awards] Mirae Asset Global Investments hits W480tr milestone on global surge
Mirae Asset Global Investments crossed 480 trillion won ($326 billion) in assets under management this year as the Korean asset manager accelerates global expansion and artificial intelligence-powered innovation. The achievement reflects balanced…
Trump's Golden Dome could create a spiral of nuclear escalation
Kathryn Bigelow's new nuclear thriller, “A House of Dynamite,” has been criticized by some experts for being unrealistic, most notably because it portrays an unlikely scenario in which an adversary chooses to attack the United States…
Albion Enterprise VCT (LON:AAEV) Reaches New 12-Month Low - What's Next?
New 52-week low: Shares hit an intra-day low of GBX 98.50 and last traded at GBX 98 (previous close GBX 107.50) on volume of 13,200 shares. Valuation and technicals: market cap £233.31 million, P/E 9.93 and beta 0.03; the stock is trading…
The Alpha Is Not LLM Monitoring
Adobe just paid $1.9 billion for Semrush. Not for the LLM tracking dashboards. For the platform, the customer relationships, and the distribution. Contrast: Investors poured $227 million into AI visibility tracking. Most of that went to tracking…
British Smaller Companies VCT (LON:BSV) Sets New 52-Week Low - Here's What Happened
Shares of British Smaller Companies VCT (LON:BSV - Get Free Report) hit a new 52-week low during mid-day trading on Wednesday. The company traded as low as GBX 72 and last traded at GBX 75, with a volume of 6 shares. The stock had previously closed…
Here are the 49 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025
Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch; three companies raised more than one “mega-round,”…
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