Business
Schumpeter
What if carmaking went the way of consumer electronics?
The Foxconnification of electric vehicles
Mine your own business
BHP and Rio Tinto are heading in different directions
The strategies of the world’s two most valuable miners are diverging
Little frog, bigger pond
Poland’s stockmarket has a hot new entrant
The IPO of Zabka could help revive Warsaw’s beleaguered bourse
On the rack
Pity the superstar fashion designer
Creative directors are coming and going faster than the latest trends
Called out
Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service?
The adoption of AI is surging in call centres
Reign of the spreadsheet
Why Microsoft Excel won’t die
The business world’s favourite software program enters its 40th year
Autonomous cars
The trouble with Elon Musk’s robotaxi dream
Scaling up self-driving taxis will be hard, and competition will be fierce
Weekend profile
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, chemicals magnate turned sports mogul
The British billionaire is buying up teams from sailing to football to cycling
A digital makeover
Can Mytheresa make luxury e-commerce a success?
It reckons it can succeed where Richemont has failed
The standards war
China is writing the world’s technology rules
It is setting standards for everything from 6G to quantum computing
Schumpeter
Masayoshi Son is back in Silicon Valley—and late to the AI race
This isn’t the first time the Japanese tech investor has missed the hot new thing