Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a flying car

Several Silicon Valley companies are aiming to make flying as easy as calling for a taxi

Silicon Valley bets on cryptocurrency projects to disrupt finance

DeFi projects aim to replicate financial services and cut out middlemen

US authorities obtain asset freeze to halt alleged $690m Ponzi scheme

Alleged scheme operated by actor who lied about having deals to sell films to Netflix and HBO

Bitcoin shakes off weakness to climb as much as 4%

Risk of tougher regulatory oversight had weighed on prices

Malin-backed Immunocore files for $100m IPO

Irish investor has 7.4% stake in UK biotech company developing eye cancer therapy

Irish Times view on Airbnb: a flawed model

Company should be obliged to advertise only properties that have planning permission for short-letting

Airbnb’s Irish subsidary takes Covid hit as revenues plummet

Firm warns EU state aid inquiries may mean changes to tax treatment of foreign operations

Elon Musk: Grimes and I have this debate of ‘Are you more crazy than me?’

The billionaire on life with Grimes and Baby X, Trump, Tesla, tunnels and blasting off

James Murdoch resigns from board of News Corporation

Statement cites ‘disagreements over certain editorial content’

Trump has fired prosecutor investigating Giuliani, says US AG

Barr ‘surprised and quite disappointed’ by Berman statement in which he refused to quit

United Airlines pledges mileage programme to secure loan

Capital-raising involves selling new shares, tapping $4.5bn in US taxpayer-backed loans and borrowing $5bn from banks

Tesla’s Elon Musk calls for breakup of Amazon in tweet

Call followed a complaint by an author unable to publish Covid-19-related book

Who is Michael Milken, the junk bond king pardoned by Trump?

Michael Milken maintained ties to a finance industry that he helped shape

Life on the run proving expensive for Carlos Ghosn

Cost of his escape included $14m in forfeited bail and operation to leave Japan could have cost $15m

Michael O’Leary expected to take stand in Ryanair case against Bellew

High Court action to prevent outgoing COO joining rival Easyjet next month set to begin

Elon Musk faces defamation trial over tweet to British diver

Tesla CEO allegedly branded Vernon Unsworth a paedophile on Twitter

Ryanair not expecting Boeing 737 NG issue to affect flights

Qantas, Southwest step up checks after 50 aeroplanes grounded due to cracks

General Electric to freeze pension benefits for 20,000 employees

GE is also offering to buy out about 100,000 former employees who are members of the scheme and yet to start collecting their pensions

Nissan and Carlos Ghosn settle with SEC over pay disclosure

Ghosn settled for $1 m while Nissan settled for $15 m

Can you channel Jack Kerouac in an electric car?

Henry Mance plugged in, turned on and hit Route 80 to find out. Spontaneity and distance were the first casualties

KPMG UK ousts head of consulting unit after conduct inquiry

Tim Howarth investigated over claims of misconduct involving WhatsApp messages

Slack investors expect IPO valuation to exceed $16bn

Workplace chat software cannot guarantee profitability, it said in regulatory filings

Uber IPO said to be oversubscribed by day two of roadshow

Ride-hailing company looking to raise as much as $9 bn next week

Kraft Heinz replaces CEO after $15bn writedown

Bernardo Hees departs as group faces SEC investigation and questions about strategy

Pinterest sets IPO price range between $15-$17 per share

Picture sharing website could raise about $1.3 bn

Nokia shares dive on potential Alcatel-Lucent compliance issues

Finnish network equipment maker bought its former French rival in 2016

Lyft seeks valuation of $23bn in New York IPO

San Francisco-based on-demand transportation company wants to raise $2.1bn

Lyft beats rival Uber to go public, and offers shares to drivers

Car-booking company has 18.6m active users, and doubled its revenues to €1.89bn

Tesla to cut workforce by 7% after ‘most challenging’ year

Elon Musk says group has ‘no choice’ but to reduce staff numbers

Facebook gave Netflix and Spotify access to users’ private messages

The social media company offered users a privacy wall, then let tech giants around it

Crunch Brexit vote to proceed, insists UK exit minister

Seen & Heard: Stephen Barclay rejects reports that May is seeking to delay vote

US authorities investigate claims Snap misled investors ahead of IPO

Investors claim Snap failed to reveal how much Instagram was hurting growth

James Murdoch in line to replace Elon Musk as Tesla chair

Outgoing Fox CEO has signalled willingness to accept post following SEC settlement

Fears of US interest rate hike sends European shares falling

Apple, Twitter and Facebook down as investors fear US economy overheating

Irish banks tumble on signs of slowing house price growth

Housebuilders also hit as investors hold back from market

Walgreens and former executives charged with misleading investors

SEC alleges Gregory Wasson and Wade Miquelon failed to disclose increased risks

US SEC charges Tesla CEO Elon Musk with fraud

Musk has been accused of making a series of ‘false and misleading’ tweets

Tesla faces US criminal investigation over Musk comments

Shares tumble after DoJ launches investigation into ‘funding secured’ tweet

Elon Musk says Tesla will remain a public company

Move halts a process set in motion by Musk to turn Tesla into a privately owned company

Elon Musk interview: ‘I was not on weed’ when sending fateful tweet on Tesla

Electric car company founder struggles to maintain composure during first interview since tweeting plan to go private

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