With the 2026 World Cup around the corner, the sports finance sector is heating up — and few advisers are at the center of more high-stakes talks than Laurie Pinto. From cross-border M&A and private equity-style ownership structures to discreet football club deals, Pinto has spent decades navigating the intersection of finance and sport. Through…
As global concern about an Ebola outbreak in central Africa grows, hundreds of Kenyans have taken to the streets to protest a plan by the Trump administration to send American citizens who have been exposed to the virus to Kenya, rather than bringing them back to the US. Two people have been shot and killed…
Aliko Dangote’s net worth is estimated by Finance Monthly at around $28.5 billion in 2026, making him Africa’s richest person and placing him at No. 86 in our current Top 100 richest people in the world. Dangote appears in the Top 100 under Dangote Cement because the cement business remains the clearest publicly valued anchor…
After all, who would pay for anything they can already get for free? Well, today, millions of donors and tens of millions of pounds and dollars later, there’s no doubting that decision. There are also some other publishers, like South Africa’s Daily Maverick and just recently, The Salt Lake Tribune in the United States, that…
As SpaceX and Anthropic eye public listings, index providers brace for major market dislocations. When mega-cap companies go public, index providers and investors will see it as dropping battleships into the old fishing pond. The resulting waves are going to soak everyone. Privately held artificial intelligence (AI) vendor Anthropic announced its filing of a draft…
“Dutch youth is suffering from news poverty – and not in the sense that there’s too little news. There’s actually an overload of information. The poverty is that overall information doesn’t land with that generation.” When Christopher Kenis, publisher of Spilnews, opened his session at our ongoing World News Media Congress in Marseille, he wasn’t…
Just a few years ago, Ben Shapiro was the defining voice of right-wing media. His podcast sat near the top of the charts. Posts from the Daily Wire, his media company, routinely dominated the competition on Facebook. His team was even coming for Hollywood, putting out “anti-woke” comedies and an epic fantasy series that cost…
The artificial intelligence investment surge is squeezing funding across America’s startup economy, leaving hundreds of former billion-dollar companies struggling to attract capital and raising fresh concerns about jobs, business growth and investment across the technology sector. New data from PitchBook shows nearly half of America’s 857 unicorn startups have not raised fresh funding in three…
Delivered at the World News Media Congress, Marseille, 1 June 2026 Speakers: Mohammed Abed (AFP), Fatima Shbair (AP), Mohammed Salem (Reuters) Mohammed Abed (AFP) “Distinguished guests, WAN-IFRA and World Editors’ Forum members, colleagues, and friends — Thank you. On behalf of AFP, AP, and Reuters, and on behalf of every professional visual journalist who has…
11 min read · May 24, 2026Press enter or click to view image in full size Companies increasingly adopt forward-deployed engineering (FDE) teams to accelerate development while staying aligned with internal workflows. But what actually happens when an external engineering team integrates into an organization? Bringing in an external engineering team does more than add…