Isobel Asher Hamilton

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Isobel Asher Hamilton (she/her) is a senior reporter at The Daily Upside. Previously she worked at Business Insider and Mashable. She specializes in covering Big Tech, social media, and AI. Isobel is based in London.

Big Tech

Uber’s Investors Are Still Growth-Hungry

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Uber’s stock drove off a ditch, sinking 9% on Thursday after the ride-hailing giant published its third-quarter earnings report.

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Economics

Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund is Homeward Bound

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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) signaled on Tuesday that it’s dialing down its investments outside the kingdom’s borders.

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Consumer

Hermès Keeps Up Its Luxury Exceptionalism

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Hermès reported financial results on Thursday that showed the scarf and handbag maker is doing pretty well.

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Big Tech

Meta’s Losing AR Developers to Snap

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Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that Meta is bleeding third-party augmented reality developers to its rival, Snap.

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Healthcare

Walmart and Amazon Bet on Medication Delivery

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Walmart announced on Tuesday that it’s introducing a new same-day delivery service for prescription medication.

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Energy

Hedge Funds are Shorting ESG, With Some Exceptions

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A Bloomberg analysis of roughly 500 hedge funds found that patience for ESG stocks related to the energy transition has run out.

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Big Tech

The EU Might Regulate the Muskiverse as One Big Company

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Bad news for X: EU lawmakers might start looking at the companies in CEO Elon Musk’s stable as one interconnected web.

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Energy

IEA Forecasts Fossil Fuel Surpluses by 2030

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The International Energy Agency predicts demand for fossil fuels will ebb pretty quickly as we move into the second half of the decade.

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Consumer

Google TikTokifies Its Shopping Service

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Google is revamping its shopping service into a more Instagram-slash-TikTok-esque feed, showing users an infinite scroll of products.

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Autos

EV Prices Old and New Are Coming Down

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Executives believe the market for electric vehicles is about to see a rebound in demand as prices come down.

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Energy

Whom Should You Believe About Energy Demand?

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Fossil fuel producers and OPEC have rained on the IEA’s parade, offering wildly different projections for future energy demand.

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Consumer

Climate Change Forces Starbucks Deeper into Coffee R&D

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Starbucks is buying two farms in Central America to conduct research on the crop at the heart of its business: coffee.

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Electric Vehicles

Toyota Invests $500 Million in Air Taxi Startup

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Toyota is investing $500 million into Joby Aviation, a California-based startup that wants to make flying taxis.

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Consumer

PepsiCo Adds Tortilla Chip Aficionado to Its Portfolio

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PepsiCo announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy Siete Foods for $1.2 billion, another food M&A deal this year.

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Big Tech

Epic Games Keeps Google’s Feet to the Fire

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Epic Games filed a lawsuit against Google and Samsung, pulling the South Korean electronics giant into its long-running beef with Google.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI is Passing the First Stage of its Antitrust Era

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It’s not a hallucination: Artificial intelligence companies have actually managed to placate at least one national regulator.

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Energy

Saudi Arabia Gives Up Trying to Drive Oil Higher

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Saudi Arabia, the biggest and most influential member of OPEC, is abandoning its goal of driving the price of an oil barrel up to $100.

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Big Tech

Google Accuses Microsoft of Monopolizing the Cloud Market

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Google filed a formal complaint with the European Union, saying that Microsoft abuses its market dominance as a software maker.

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Big Tech

TikTok is Ditching Music Streaming — But Spotify Can’t Relax

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TikTok is calling it quits on a music streaming business that barely made it out the door, and only launched trials last year.

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Autos

The Biden Administration’s War on Chinese Cars Just Got Bigger

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The Biden administration is introducing a ban on both hardware and software for “connected vehicles” from China and, incidentally, Russia.

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