Jeff Housenbold, managing partner at SoftBank’s Vision Fund SoftBank SoftBank’s Jeff Housenbold, who led the Vision Fund’s investments in companies including DoorDash, OpenDoor and Wag, is leaving the firm later this year. SoftBank shook up the Silicon Valley investment world with the first Vision Fund in 2017, ultimately raising $100 billion, funded in large part
Boris Johnson will host this year’s G7 summit in the tiny seaside resort of Carbis Bay in Cornwall, where he will urge world leaders to unite in “building back better” from the pandemic. Joe Biden, who will be US president by then, is expected to attend the event starting on 11 June, alongside the other
EDF, the French state-backed energy giant, is drawing up secret plans for a stock market flotation of one of Britain’s biggest providers of electric vehicle charging infrastructure amid soaring demand from motorists. Sky News has learnt that EDF, which bought a controlling stake in Pod Point less than a year ago, has instructed investment bankers
Yoweri Museveni has been declared the winner of the Uganda presidential election with 58.64% of the total votes, according to the country’s electoral commission. The incumbent will now serve a sixth term as president of the east African nation following some of the worst pre-election violence since the 76-year-old took office in 1986. His main
America is finally waking up to the problems caused by its polarising politics. And if Sky News’ investigations into one small community in mid-west Ohio are anything to go by, it is going to be one heckuva big, continual challenge – long after the US inauguration on Wednesday. The Sky team in Ohio tracked down
Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer for $2.99 The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee for $1.99 The Night Country by Melissa Albert for $2.99 Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman for $2.99 The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. When Jen Mankins announced on Friday that she was closing her beloved store, Bird, she immediately started getting emails from customers. One of them, now a very successful real estate broker, recalled a day years ago when she was browsing the
The CW’s Batwoman has, from the beginning, been a show about doing things a new way — innovating the superhero’s journey of self-discovery and breaking down barriers in terms of representation and power dynamics. As portrayed by Ruby Rose on Batwoman Season 1, Kate Kane was a hero with no superpowers who became Gotham’s defender
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services. CNBC Getting kicked off Amazon Web Services is rare, but it has enormous consequences. It happened this week, when Amazon dropped Parler, a social network that gained traction from conservatives after Twitter banned President Donald Trump and housed content that encouraged violence. Parler filed suit against Amazon in
More than 400,000 police records have accidentally been deleted from a national database, prompting warnings that criminal investigations could be compromised, Sky News understands. The fingerprint, DNA and arrest history records were wiped due to “human error” and “defective code”, policing minister Kit Malthouse said yesterday. It was initially reported by The Times that 150,000
Local authorities are losing tens of millions of pounds supporting struggling business tenants through the pandemic which could have dire and long-lasting consequences for local services, Sky News has found. Freedom of Information requests reveal English councils have already written off at least £19.7m associated with measures to support local businesses, including rent relief, rent
India has began its ambitious project of vaccinating its 1.3 billion citizens – as it aims to administer 300 million jabs by August. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the voluntary vaccination programme at 3,006 locations across the country this morning. About 300,000 health workers will be vaccinated today and the numbers will increase as more
Play video content Real Time with Bill Maher/HBO Bill Maher is back with a vengeance!!! None other than Kellyanne Conway kicked off Bill’s first show since the election, and there were some hilarious moments. Bill reminded Kellyanne she once said Trump didn’t hurl personal insults … well, he then ticked off not 2, not 5,
The Trump administration has carried out its 13th federal execution since July – the most of any presidency in more than 100 years. Dustin Higgs was convicted of murdering three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge in 1996. The 48-year-old was the third inmate to receive a lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre
It might be “2020 with bangs” but that doesn’t mean we can’t improve our cooking, WFH and cleaning experiences Remember when we were all like “2021 will be our year”? LOL. We’re only halfway through January and while the pandemic raging on and recent violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol makes it feel like the world is
The fourth and final season of Ozark can’t come soon enough. But unfortunately we have to wait to who knows when to see the conclusion of Netflix’s tense crime saga. Still, after watching Season 3 of Ozark and seeing Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) continue to walk a tightrope between staying alive by laundering money for the cartel