James Woolcock

Jan 22, 2025 | news.bloombergtax.com | James Woolcock

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Jan 22, 2025 | news.bloomberglaw.com | James Woolcock

Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today’s podcast:(1) President Donald Trump said his threat to hit China with 10% tariffs on all imports was still on the table and indicated it could come as soon as next month. (2) SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle are forming a $100 billion joint venture to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure, an effort unveiled with President Donald Trump aimed at speeding development of the emerging technology.

Oct 8, 2024 | news.bloomberglaw.com | James Woolcock

Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today’s podcast: (1) The US Justice Department told a federal judge it’s considering recommending that Google be forced to sell off parts of its operations to alleviate the harm caused by its monopolization of the online search market, in what would be a historic antitrust breakup.

Sep 12, 2024 | bloomberg.com | James Woolcock |Jennifer Zabasajja

As Bloomberg revealed this week, the Turkish government is in talks with Somalia over a potential rocket launch site in East Africa. So why is Africa attractive to the Space Industry and what’s holding the continent back from making the most of the space sector to boost its economies?

Sep 2, 2024 | bloomberg.com | James Woolcock

The UK’s tax authority has stopped enforcing a ban on tax-free individual savings accounts holding less than a full share of a stock ahead of an expected rule change by the UK government later this year. “The Government has committed to changing the ISA rules to allow certain fractional shares,” a spokesman for HMRC said. “Taking a pragmatic approach, we will not raise an assessment on managers or investors for fractional shares acquired before these changes are made.”