Business

Schumpeter

Does Perplexity’s “answer engine” threaten Google?

Taking aim at one of the best business models of all times

Bartleby

How not to work on a plane

Hours without interruption and work to do. What could go wrong?

A copper-bottomed deal

Why does BHP want Anglo American?

Its $39bn takeover offer is the latest in a string of mining mega-mergers

Jam-packed

Chinese EV-makers are leaving Western rivals in the dust

They have shone at Beijing’s car jamboree

The fountain of youth

Can biotech startups upstage Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk?

Smaller drugmakers are enjoying a revival

Polls and profits

How to handle populists: a CEO’s survival guide

Western businesses are learning to live with volatile electoral politics around the world

Tinderboxed in

Will war snuff out the Gulf’s global business ambitions?

Companies far and wide are feeling the effects of the conflict

Wings of change

Can anyone pull Boeing out of its nosedive?

The American planemaker needs one hell of a pilot

Schumpeter

Tesla faces an identity crisis: carmaker or tech firm?

Elon Musk’s fiendish conundrum

Social media and security

Congress tells China: sell TikTok or we’ll ban it

Only America’s courts can save the video app now

Joint adventures

How to build a global business empire in the 21st century

Disney, Ford, Microsoft and the age of the quasi-merger