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Jamie and Jools Oliver pay themselves £1.7m dividend as profits almost halve
Jamie Oliver and his wife Jools have taken a £1.7m dividend from their food and media business, despite pre-tax profits at Jamie Oliver Holdings almost halving over the past year. The payout, down more than 40% on the previous year’s dividend, comes as the group absorbed one-off costs linked to restructuring and the opening of…
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Patreon is changing its algorithm to help smaller creators get discovered
Patreon has unveiled a broad roadmap of updates, including a revamped discovery algorithm designed to help smaller creators get noticed. CEO Jack Conte framed the changes as an attempt to build “a better internet” for creators, arguing that mainstream social media platforms have “enshittified” and made it harder for creators to reach audiences and build…
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What does Tyson’s shutdown of two US beef plants mean for grocery costs?
Tyson Foods, the largest US meatpacking company, is closing plants in Iowa and Utah and selling a facility in Washington state, cutting hundreds of jobs as cattle supplies hit a 75-year low. The closures come amid a historic cattle shortage caused by prolonged drought, rising costs and consolidation among ranchers, but economists say the move…
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Riot Games to end LoL fighting game 2XK0’s development and issue refunds, less than a year since launch
Riot Games is ending active development of 2XKO, its free-to-play tag fighting game, in December – less than a year after its full launch in January. The studio said the game’s performance in revenue, player retention and engagement fell far short of what was needed to make continued development sustainable, making the decision “impossible” to…
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The perfect home for animal lovers? Unique Yorkshire pad has horse paddock and heated dog kennel
A five-bedroom detached house in Galphay, near Ripon in North Yorkshire, has come onto the market for £3.75million with extensive facilities designed for animal owners. The property spans more than 8,000 sq ft and sits within six acres of grounds, featuring equestrian amenities including paddocks, an indoor riding arena, five stables, a tack room and…
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‘Free Nelson Mandela’ Maker Rogan Productions Opens South Africa Office & Tweaks Management Set Up
Rogan Productions, the London-based company behind Channel 4’s “Free Nelson Mandela,” has opened a new office in South Africa, marking its first permanent international expansion in its 13-year history. The Johannesburg-based unit, Rogan South Africa, will maintain close links with Cape Town, reflecting the founders’ longstanding personal ties to the country and building on a…
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Genki’s new customizable controller has a big screen and adjustable buttons
Genki has launched the Manta, its first fully in-house designed game controller, via a Kickstarter campaign that emphasises deep customisation over conventional design. The pad places its thumbsticks and buttons above a large 2.9-inch LCD screen, giving it a chunkier profile than rival controllers, and lets players adjust settings, remap buttons and create macros directly…
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AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
Micro1, a four-year-old AI data-labelling startup, has seen its gross annual run rate surge from $100 million to $500 million over the past eight months, reflecting soaring demand from AI labs and corporations for high-quality training data. The company, which contracts domain experts such as doctors, lawyers and scientists, retains roughly 60-70% of that revenue,…
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Learn what VCs actually want, from a founder who’s raised $1B
A new episode of TechCrunch’s Build Mode podcast features Sasha Orloff, founder and CEO of Puzzle and a Startup Battlefield alumnus, discussing what investors actually look for when startups raise funding. Orloff has collectively raised over $1 billion across the companies he has built, and he stresses that VCs do not expect founders to run…