Tales of Silicon Valley
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Tales of Silicon Valley
Hannah Prevett and Dominic O’Connell bring you one big business story you need to know every week. Uncovering the personalities, power plays, boardroom dramas and sheer ambition that drive the world of business, Hannah and Dominic get the inside story from the people who are in the room when the dea...
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Gold Rush: Boom or bubble?
Gold, the world's oldest asset, is experiencing a remarkable boom. Its value has surged from just over £2000 per ounce a year ago to well over £3000 t...
Bonus: AI - Reshaping Britain’s workforce
This episode of The Business is sponsored by PwC.
As AI rapidly reshapes the world of work, businesses face the biggest transformation since the...
Chicken Wars: Can KFC still rule the roost? With KFC's Rob Swain
Fried chicken is booming in Britain - the market is now worth over £3bn a year. Up and down high streets, a whole new generation of fast food chicken...
Rachel Reeves’s high tax, high spend budget
It’s being described as a "smorgasbord" of a budget - an offer from Rachel Reeves made up not of big, bold moves but of small, bite-sized titbits. But...
Britain’s biggest bitcoin buyer - with Smarter Web Company's Andrew Webley
More than $1 trillion has been wiped from the Crypto market in just six short weeks, but on The Business we hear from a man who still trusts Bitcoin m...
Are trillion dollar tech stocks about to pop? With Andrew Ross Sorkin
There are few things that are as fascinating, thrilling - and sometimes as completely confounding - as the stock market. Right now, that's as true as...
Bonus: Budget preview - headroom and hard choices
This episode of The Business is sponsored by PwC.
All eyes are on Chancellor Rachel Reeves as she prepares her autumn Budget. There have been hi...
Surviving Amazon, cyber attacks and the Christmas hot list - Alex Baldock, Currys CEO
What is it like to have a window into the spending habits of 80 percent of British households? Alex Baldock knows very well. As the chief executive of...
Corporate landlords and Labour's housing woes
Labour has gone in hard with a big, bold promise - build 1.5 million homes over the course of this parliament. That means 300,000 homes a year, a targ...
Mind the (pay) gap
It’s widely acknowledged that diversity is good for business, but white men still dominate the top echelons of UK companies. The pay gap, though narro...
How to build a British unicorn
Vishal Marria is a homegrown business success story; a Balham local who took the leap from his secure job to launch his own company that is now worth...
A grim future, Farage and Man United - Sir Jim Ratcliffe
He's one of Britain's most successful industrialists and part-owner of Manchester United. Sir Jim Ratcliffe - regularly found near the top of the Sund...
Introducing The Business
A new weekly podcast all about the world of business starts on Thursday 9th October.
Today's biggest companies wield more influence than many c...
Bonus Episode - Stories of our times; Tik Tok and the data war
A special extra episode for you from the daily podcast from The Times;
President Trump has ordered firms to stop doing business with social medi...
Special Episode: Stories of our times - Could tech giants get us out of lockdown?
Today an edition of our new daily podcast - Stories of our times. Our new free daily news podcast takes you to the heart of the stories that matter, w...
Atari's Nolan Bushnell "I started tinkering in third grade and never stopped"
In an additional bonus episode to Tales From Silicon Valley, The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Nolan Bushnell, founder of A...
Ignore, Delete, Escalate
Millions of people are working every day, every hour, every minute to keep the web safe for the rest of us. They are human filters, finding and blocki...
The Big Tune Out
Scott Kriens helped build the internet. Now he’s helping undo the havoc it has unleashed with a mountain retreat centre he’s built on the doorstep of...
The Brain: the final frontier
A race has broken out in Silicon Valley to create a breakthrough "brain-computer interface". Such a device would herald a new era of telepathy, and ev...
Earth is not enough
Fifty years on from Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk, we investigate how billionaires are racing to become the first to settle on the moon. They are convince...
Hello, San Francisco
The city by the bay is ground zero of the tech revolution, but it has taken a dystopic turn. We dive inside San Francisco, where there are more billio...
The Bebo Billions pt 2
Michael and Xochi Birch launch Bebo, one of the first social networks, and ride it to extraordinary heights before it all comes crashing down. In the...
The Bebo Billions
Michael and Xochi Birch launched Bebo, one of the first social networks. They sold it at the height of the market for $850 million to AOL Time Warner....
Hot Tub Millionaire
Nolan Bushnell arrived in Silicon Valley in 1968 - and changed it forever. He started Atari, launched the video game industry, gave Steve Jobs his fir...