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Facebook announced on Wednesday that it’s launching “Creator Fast Track,” a new program designed to help creators grow on Facebook with guaranteed pay and increased content reach. The social network also shared that it paid creators nearly $3 billion through its monetization programs in 2025, a 35% increase from the previous year and its highest annual total to date. The idea behind the new monetization program is to entice creators who have built followings on other platforms to start posting on Facebook. Instead of starting from scratch on a new platform, creators can use the program to attain increased reach…

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reportedly preparing a proposal to eliminate mandatory quarterly reporting for public companies, a move that many expect could significantly reshape how businesses approach the public markets. According to Reuters and The Wall Street Journal, the change would reduce the frequency of required financial disclosures, potentially shifting the balance between transparency and flexibility for listed firms. But for startups and scaleups weighing an IPO, the implications are far from straightforward.     Will This Lower the Barrier To Going Public?   On the surface, reducing reporting requirements could definitely make public markets more…

At the bottom of the mighty Mt. Kilimanjaro lies the beautiful Amboseli National Park, known for being the home of the super tuskers. For those not in the known, super tuskers are the elephants with the largest tusks which are often also among the oldest. One can imagine the amount of visitors flocking in to see these majestic creatures roaming around, together with all kinds of other wildlife, creating one of the most visited parks in the whole of Kenya. Angama, a brand that carries conservation high up its sleeves, created a stunning property right next to this hotspot, but…

SBI Holdings’ digital asset arm, SBI VC Trade, said it will launch a USDC lending service in Japan on Thursday, allowing retail users to lend stablecoins to the platform under fixed-term agreements in exchange for returns.On Wednesday, the company said users will be able to lend Circle’s USDC (USDC) stablecoin to the platform and receive interest payments, with a maximum application of 5,000 USDC per offering. The product is structured as a loan to SBI VC Trade rather than a deposit, meaning users take direct counterparty risk. SBI said it may also re-lend the borrowed USDC as part of its…

Brighton Spiegeltent will not take place this year due to the “ongoing infrastructure works affecting its usual home at Old Steine Gardens”. The announcement comes just weeks after organisers said the festival would return, moving to a larger location in Victoria Gardens. Now bosses have announced they “don’t feel the Brighton Spiegeltent event would benefit from relocating to an unsuitable and challenging location”. In a post on social media, the festival organisers said that the Valley Gardens Phase 3 road scheme, an extensive project to redevelop the road systems in the area, will make the festival’s Old Steine Gardens site…

Marquis, a technology company used by hundreds of banks to analyze and visualize their customers’ data, says hundreds of thousands of people had their personal and sensitive financial information stolen in a ransomware attack last year. The Plano, Texas-based fintech company is notifying at least 672,075 people that hackers stole their information during the August 2025 cyberattack, according to a listing with Maine’s attorney general’s office. More than half of all those affected live in Texas, according to a separate data breach notice filed in the state. The disclosure is the fullest picture yet of the number of people affected…

The U.S. Department of Defense said on Tuesday evening that Anthropic poses an “unacceptable risk to national security,” marking the agency’s first rebuttal to the AI lab’s lawsuits challenging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision last month to label the company a supply chain risk. As part of its complaints, Anthropic had requested the court temporarily block the DOD from enforcing its label. The crux of the DOD’s argument, made in a 40-page filing in a California federal court, is the concern that Anthropic might “attempt to disable its technology or preemptively alter the behavior of its model” before or during…

Wednesday 18 March 2026 1:28 pm  |  Updated:  Wednesday 18 March 2026 1:29 pm Sheperd Neame has hedged many of its energy contracts Shepherd Neame has become the latest pub company to express concern over the spectre of rising energy costs after the war in Iran sent the price of oil soaring.The Kent-based brewer, pub and hotel group, which is listed on the Aquis stock exchange, said its energy was “heavily hedged” into the next financial year with around 50 per cent of contracts hedged – meaning that the group could see a sharp hike to cost pressures should energy prices…

The Scottish singer and broadcaster’s new documentary, Michelle McManus Sings for the Pope, which airs on Good Friday at 9pm and Easter Sunday at 10am on BBC One Scotland, follows her deeply personal journey from Glasgow to Rome. The documentary charts her recording of a new hymn in Scotland, her reconnection with her childhood Catholic faith, and her emotional performance in Italy. Written by Rev John L. Bell of the Iona Community, the hymn Because was created for the 60th anniversary of SCIAF. The new documentary reaches its climax with Michelle singing the hymn at the Palace of Castel Gandolfo…

On Wednesday, after playing the clip in which Mr Hughes calls Mr Adams a major player, Sir Max Hill KC, for the three bombing victims, said: “You were, weren’t you Mr Adams? And you deny it.”Gerry Adams arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice, in central London(Image: Ben Whitley/PA Wire)Gerry Adams was a “major, major player in the war”, according to one of his former friends who was an IRA volunteer, the High Court has heard.Brendan Hughes said the words during a recorded interview that was played in court to Mr Adams, who is giving evidence in defence of a…