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This 39-year-old quit 80-hour consulting weeks to make underwear for his struggling family business. He credits ‘sweaty feet’ for record profits
"If my sock doesn't fit just right, then when I get back from my hike, I go to the sock department," Minus33 President Lawson Glidden told Fortune.
IMF raises UK growth forecast in boost for chancellor - business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsLaunching the IMF’s report in Bangkok, Silvana Tenreyro, the IMF’s economic counsellor, warned, “the global economy has b…
BT charged me for more than a year despite landline being dead
It is billing £32.99 a month but I have had no functioning phone line since it switched me to Digital VoiceI’ve had no landline since May 2025 when BT switched it to Digital Voice…
‘People sell their best stuff on Vinted’ – how charity shops became a dumping ground for unsellable clothes
Swamped with ‘daily avalanches’ of soiled items and poor-quality fast fashion, secondhand stores are in crisis. What went wrong with people’s good intentions? And is it possible t…
Bitcoin whale that sat through the March 2020 crash moves $378 million
A bitcoin whale that received coins days before the Covid crash and sat through it has moved millions on-chain.
Blur is shutting down its website, so why are NFT collectors cheering?
Blur’s planned website closure revived criticism of the royalty policies and token rewards that helped it overtake OpenSea during the NFT boom, but hurt creators.
Cost-of-living struggles inspire Community Cupboard
New social supermarket offers cheaper groceries with dignity and choice.
Tokenized SanDisk bets saw more liquidations than XRP as Asia’s chip rout wipes out $800 million
About $800 million in leveraged positions were wiped out over 24 hours, 86% of them bullish. Chip-stock contracts on crypto exchanges took a chunk of the damage.
Binance to shut down crypto mining pool services in November
Binance will discontinue its mining pool and related services on Nov. 10, urging miners to move to alternative pools before the shutdown.
IPCC is under pressure to delay publication of key global climate report
AR7 report was scheduled for 2028 in time for Cop33 summit but some petro-states and major developing countries want to postpone itScientists are coming under pressure from some p…
Lobbying, lawyers and a media blitz: the fight to kill the Church of England’s £100m slavery compensation fund
Some of Britain’s wealthiest financiers, including Sir Paul Marshall, have given a platform to critical coverage or are linked to its leading opponent“This is virtue signalling,” …
Once-largest Ethereum NFT marketplace Blur is shutting down after volumes collapse 99%
Blur will close its website on Nov. 12 after monthly trading fell from about $1.43 billion at its 2023 peak to under $7 million, ten days after sister project Blast announced its …
Bitcoin rebounds above $83,000 as it decouples from tumbling Korean stocks and Nasdaq futures
Bitcoin climbed back above $83,000 after an early dip, decoupling from a sharp slide in Korean chip stocks and weakness in Nasdaq futures ahead of Thursday’s US CPI report.
‘Super app’ aimed at UK students uses servers owned by Chinese firm on US blacklist
ZyMix platform has contract with Tencent, which US alleges has links to People’s Liberation ArmyA new messaging and payment “super app” marketed at British students uses servers o…
Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF
High valuations and debt put sector in danger, while fund also warns on government borrowing and cyber-attacksThe threat of an AI share price crash rippling out across global mark…
South Korea moves to block 27 crypto websites, including KuCoin, MEXC
Authorities said the restrictions are aimed at unregistered exchanges and have acknowledged that customers could have difficulty withdrawing assets.
‘The norm will be to trade with agents’: Crypto founders learn to love—and fear—AI
"We're the busiest we've ever been," says Blockaid co-founder Ido Ben-Natan.
UK growth upgraded but energy prices and rates to bite in 2027
The IMF report comes as final preparations are being made to the first Budget under Prime Minister Andy Burham.
Meta claims new Muse Wonder AI models rival OpenAI, Anthropic
Meta co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said its newest models are a step toward “personal superintelligence.”
Alphabet President Ruth Porat on how Google is funding AI to win long term, and the biggest risks ahead
Google is spending about $200 billion on its AI buildout this year, Porat confirmed at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit on Monday, and the peak is still around the corner.
Aptos rolls out Encrypted Mempool to curb frontrunning, sandwich attacks
The optional feature hides transaction details until their order is finalized, preventing bots from exploiting pending trades.
Top execs say the $124 trillion Great Wealth Transfer, women entrepreneurs, and veterans are poised to remake the financial landscape
Women are stepping into new wealth, and they want other women to oversee how their fortunes are deployed. Nonprofit Girls Who Invest received 4,000 applications this year.
‘If you take your foot off the pedal at all, you will start to stall’: Women in C-suite roles have stagnated, and the reasons go beyond the pipeline
Women’s share of roles in both the C-suite and at the board level has stalled at about 30%, marking the first decline in women’s board representation in more than a decade.
Publicly owned rail is popular. But is it making the trains run on time?
Meeting travellers' expectations could be challenging, experts warn.