Liverpool owners tipped to sell – but not to Amazon boss Bezos – by former CEO Sport Business Liverpool FC’s former CEO Peter Moore believes the club’s owners may be preparing to sell up but has poured cold water on talk of Jeff Bezos buying into the Reds. Fenway Sports Group is in talks to sell a minority stake to former QPR co-owner Amit Bhatia – a process some reports have suggested could [...]
SpaceX IPO puts Musk’s AI empire – and ambitions – in the spotlight Tech SpaceX has finally opened its books to public markets, revealing a company generating tens of billions in revenue, burning through cash at an extraordinary speed and betting its future on AI as much as rockets. The long-awaited Nasdaq float, expected next month, could value Elon Musk’s space and AI empire at as much as $1.75 [...]
Bezos calls taxing low-paid Amazon workers ‘absurd’ Tax Jeff Bezos has said low-paid Americans should pay no federal income tax, describing the idea of taxing some Amazon workers as “absurd”, as the billionaire founder renewed his criticism of the US tax system. Speaking to CNBC on Wednesday, Bezos said the “bottom half” of US taxpayers should pay zero federal income tax, arguing the [...]
Big Tech wants a slice of the fashion world. But why? May 6, 2026 From Amazon to Meta, Big Tech is snapping up Met Gala tables and Vogue covers, but why, asks Anna Moloney.
Bezos AI lab eyes King’s Cross Silicon Valley hub April 27, 2026 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s AI venture is in talks to expand in London, joining a growing cluster of AI giants around King’s Cross, which is increasingly being seen as the UK’s rival to Silicon Valley. Project Prometheus, the billionaire’s secretive AI lab, is in talks of taking up office space within the Jellicoe Buiding, the [...]
Amazon rolls out UK’s biggest electric truck fleet amid government push November 4, 2025 Amazon has begun rolling out the first of its largest-ever UK electric heavy-goods vehicles (eHGVs), with 160 trucks set to join its British fleet over the coming months. The first of the new 40-tonne Mercedes-Benz eActros 600s is set to hit the road this week, delivering parcels between Amazon’s logistics hubs nationwide. The fleet is [...]
Amazon Fresh to close all UK stores September 23, 2025 Amazon is set to close all 19 of its Amazon Fresh stores in the UK, just four years after launching its first supermarket outlet in London. It has been revealed that the tech giant plans to convert up to five of these locations into Whole Foods Market stores, a US organic food chain it acquired [...]
Gianni Infantino, Jay Shah and the rise of sport’s super-execs August 5, 2025 Infantino at Fifa and Shah at the ICC are styling themselves as super-execs like Musk and Zuckerberg but it won’t end well, warns Matt Readman. In sport, the best referees go unnoticed. They quietly manage the game, letting play flow and leaving the athletes to shine. Occasionally they must enforce the law, but they are [...]
I sold my business for £1.5bn – with great wealth comes great responsibility July 10, 2025 Those of us fortunate enough to thrive at the top must do more to support those struggling at the bottom, not out of guilt or obligation, but because it is the right thing to do and makes us richer in meaning, purpose and legacy, says John Caudwell This week I had the honour of speaking [...]
John Caudwell: Bezos gives billionaires a bad name July 8, 2025 If you ever want to feel like you don’t quite do enough with your time, speak to John Caudwell. We are approaching the culmination of a wide-ranging interview, and the billionaire founder of Phones 4u – and a man hoping to build London’s most expensive housing development ever – runs through his terrifyingly busy schedule [...]