Business
Schumpeter
Why is Mark Zuckerberg giving away Meta’s crown jewels?
Augustus Caesar goes on the open-source warpath
A fossil-fuel fantasy
Donald Trump’s promise of a golden age for oil is fanciful
There is not much he could do to boost fossil fuels—or rein in clean energy
Bump start
China’s robotaxis are racing ahead of Tesla’s
Baidu is leaving Western carmakers in the dust
Lower your aspirations
Can Burberry put its chequered past behind it?
The British label’s new boss has his work cut out
Research developments
China is the West’s corporate R&D lab. Can it remain so?
Foreign firms want Chinese boffins. America and China may have other plans
Shop lifting
Can anyone save Macy’s?
America’s biggest department store has rejected a takeover. Now what?
Bartleby
How a CEO knows when to quit
Bosses have a shelf life and plenty of incentives to misjudge what it is
Wiz kid
Google wants a piece of Microsoft’s cyber-security business
A $23bn acquisition of Wiz, an Israeli startup, is the search giant’s biggest ever
Schumpeter
Tech bros love J.D. Vance. Many CEOs are scared stiff
Donald Trump’s running-mate has a deep-rooted resentment of big business
Married, with chiding
What a $600m wedding says about India’s attitude to wealth
The Ambani nuptials enticed everyone from Justin Bieber and Shah Rukh Khan to John Kerry
Power drain
Why most battery-makers struggle to make money
This is not your classic boom-and-bust cycle
Peering across the Rhine
What German business makes of France’s leftward turn
Deutschland AG and France SA are closer than ever