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Palmer Luckey: the billionaire flame of the west
Profile Palmer Luckey started Oculus, the virtual-reality headset business, and sold it to Facebook for $2bn. Now he’s set his sights on the arms race.
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Boaz Weinstein: the hedge fund vulture swooping on the City
Profile Boaz Weinstein’s campaign to take over and transform “the Miserable Seven” London-based investment trusts has been routed – for now. The fight isn’t over yet
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Zhang Shengwei: the godfather of the vape industry
Profile Zhang Shengwei quietly grew his online vape shop and now gives Big Tobacco a run for its money. Can he survive the backlash from regulators?
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Kirill Dmitriev: Putin’s emissary to Trumpworld
Profile Kirill Dmitriev is a product of America’s finest institutions and has emerged as the Russian president’s point man in negotiations with Donald Trump
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Aga Khan, spiritual leader and billionaire investor, dies
The Aga Khan was a religious leader to millions of Shia Ismaili Muslims and a billionaire investor with a love of horses. He saw no contradiction in his roles
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Deepseek's Liang Wenfeng: the maths whizz who shook Big Tech
Few people had heard of Liang Wenfeng until the launch of his DeepSeek AI chatbot wiped a trillion dollars off US technology stocks. His pivot to AI was of a piece with his past exploits.
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RedNote: the rise of the new TikTok
RedNote, a Chinese rival to social-media app TikTok, has seen millions of US users flock to it in the wake of the US TikTok ban. That caught the company by surprise. What is RedNote and can its popularity last?
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Andrew Forrest battles it out with oil giant ExxonMobil
Iron ore billionaire Andrew Forrest made billions before committing himself to philanthropy. Now he is preparing for a showdown with ExxonMobil.
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Sir David McMurtry: Renishaw founder and Concorde engineer
Sir David McMurtry, co-founder of Renishaw, made a unique contribution to Britain. We look back at his legacy
