The private equity industry likes to talk about patient capital, but the numbers tell a more specific story than the phrase suggests. The typical holding period investors expect when they commit to a fund is three to seven years. Recent data puts the actual median closer to six, the longest since research firms began tracking…
Plus, how to style skeleton UIs, how to enable diagonal scrolling, how images can overflow themselves, and yet, still more. Basically, how to do a lot of really cool (CSS) stuff. How to use the CSS Custom Highlight API Sunkanmi Fafowora demonstrated how to use the CSS Custom Highlight API, which is now supported by…
World News Day 2026 is here. From today, 25 September, until 1 October, more than 1,000 news organisations and support agencies in over 100 countries will run a joint campaign for fact-based journalism. The main day is Monday 28 September, which is also the United Nations’ International Day for Universal Access to Information. What it’s…
By Alia Ibrahim, Co-founder and CEO Daraj.com For a couple of months in 2020, my dining-room table was covered by a huge map detailing the companies connected to Lebanon’s central bank governor, Riad Salameh. We had been investigating him for months, and by then it was clear to us that he owned at least two…
You’ve got the apartment lease signed and the moving boxes half unpacked, and somewhere in the back of your mind is a vague sense that you’re supposed to deal with the DMV at some point. Nevada doesn’t give you much room to put it off. New residents get 30 days to handle both vehicle registration…
For Mathrubhumi, one of the experiments in responding to changing audience behaviour is not a new format or platform, but intellectual property (IP). Based in Keralam, the publisher has developed an automobile-focused IP designed to work across formats. It has also created Kappa CULTR, an electronic music and contemporary culture festival hosted annually by the…
Financial services has moved beyond the question of whether AI can perform useful tasks. Banks, insurers and fintechs are now using AI across underwriting, fraud detection, customer service, collections, compliance and product development. The next question is harder. Are these systems changing how financial businesses operate, make decisions and generate value? Recent industry research suggests…
By Phil Chetwynd, Global News Director, AFP The obituaries of news agencies have been written on many occasions over the past two decades. First we were told we were slower than Twitter and that our global network of salaried journalists was redundant because every citizen was a journalist now. Who needs to pay for ethically-produced…
By Branko Brkic, Founder, Project Kontinuum and Tina Brown, editor, author and founder of Truth Tellers, the Sir Harry Evans global journalism summit There is a curious thing about journalism: Everyone seeking power calls us dead but still wants to control it. Authoritarians attack it, oligarchs try to buy it, propagandists mimic it. Powerful tech…
When an insurance company refuses to pay after a collision, the injured person may suddenly face a much harder fight than expected. A Bronx auto accident lawyer can step into that dispute, challenge the insurer’s position, and determine whether its decision holds up under New York insurance rules and the facts of the case. For…