Business

Float of a celestial jukebox

Its clout in streaming could allow it to sign new artists itself, challenging the major record labels

All things AI

Another important theme was innovating around innovation itself

End of the line

Future leadership is a problem for many family-run firms, including Foxconn, the world’s biggest contract manufacturer

Strange brew

Outdated government regulations and millennials’ impatience bode ill for plantations

Silicon melts

Even if hackers do not exploit two new chip flaws, there will be economic consequences

Low-carb diet

Nearly 1,400 firms globally with combined revenues of $7trn already use, or soon will, “internal carbon prices”

Direct flight to NYSE

Interest in “direct listings” is rising. Could Spotify’s become a model for others?

Blocked transfer

Not even Jack Ma’s cordial meeting with Donald Trump last year stopped a government committee blocking an affiliate of Alibaba from buying MoneyGram

Diary of a sniper

Kim Sang-jo has rare political backing to dissuade them from bullying smaller firms and short-changing shareholders

Snow-washing

Identity checks to obtain a library card are more onerous than those to form a private firm

The tower of Benioff

But will the world’s fourth-largest software firm live up to its founder’s soaring expectations?

Schumpeter

Conventional firms have at last got their technology act together