Entrepreneurship

Europe EV market share tops 25% in July as France, Germany drive growth
Published Mon, Aug 24, 2026 · 06:26 AMBATTERY electric vehicle registrations in Europe continued to rise in July, with electric cars accounting for more than one in four new...
ECB chief Lagarde ‘ready to serve’ World Economic Forum: report
Published Mon, Aug 24, 2026 · 06:08 AM[ZURICH] Christine Lagarde, chief of the European Central Bank, could take over the presidency of the World Economic Forum at some point...
US: Wall Street rises on the day but falls for the week; bond yields, Iran in focus
Published Sat, Aug 22, 2026 · 08:25 AM[NEW YORK] The main US stock indices closed higher on Friday (Aug 21) but showed declines for the week, which was marked...
“Engineering Magic,” Adhesive Technologies, and Precision: How Paintless Dent Repair Is Changing the Automotive Service Industry
Photo of Vitalii Novitskii For most car owners, repairing a dent still means several days without a vehicle, filler, repainting, and a repair bill running into thousands. Traditional body...
AI Accounting Software Grows Up: Xero Bets on Agents
At its US conference in Denver this week, Xero announced embedded payroll and a set of new AI capabilities aimed at small businesses and the accountants who serve them....
Medical Device Startup Vexev Raises $6M for FDA Push
Australian medical robotics company Vexev raised $6 million to push its robotic ultrasound platform toward FDA clearance and a US launch. The round brings total funding to $19 million....
Fed Interest Rate Decision: What Founders Should Do Now
Traders spent August rewriting their view of the September meeting, and the odds of a rate increase fell hard after a weak July jobs report. As of August 19,...
Gen Z Entrepreneurs: 5 Forces Driving the Startup Surge
Americans filed close to 2.9 million new business applications in the first five months of 2026, and Gen Z is out front of the pack. Applications from that cohort...
Humanoid Robot Companies Go Public as Unitree Soars
China’s Unitree Robotics closed its Shanghai trading debut up roughly 460%, after raising 6.1 billion yuan, or about $904 million, on the STAR Market. Demand was extreme. The offering...
Dollar wobbles as Treasury’s bond market buybacks raise fresh concerns
Published Fri, Aug 21, 2026 · 08:14 PM[LONDON] The dollar slipped on Friday (Aug 21) and was set to end a bumpy week lower, as investors questioned whether the...
More products, more risks? South Korea’s leveraged ETF experience offers lessons for Singapore’s retail fund push
MAS in July had proposed a more flexible framework that could allow retail investors to access new fund types[SINGAPORE] Singapore’s push to broaden the range of investment products for...
Digital Realty, STT GDC among data centre operators awarded 50 MW of new capacity in Singapore
Keppel and Equinix are the other two awarded out of over 20 applications received from global and local players[SINGAPORE] The Singapore government on Friday (Aug 21) has awarded a...