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The big tech news in a slow week was that the software giant Adobe is planning to pay the unconscionable sum of $20bn (£18bn) to acquire a small company called Figma. Why is this news? Well, first of all, there's the price – way above any rational valuation of Figma. Second, there's the question that we have finally learned to ask about tech mergers and acquisitions: is there a competition or antitrust issue here somewhere?We'll come to the price later, but at first sight, the answer to the second question would seem to be no: the two companies are not direct competitors. Adobe dominates the market in software for creating and publishing digital and printed material – graphics, photography, illustration, animation, multimedia/video, motion pictures and print. If you've ever used Pho...

In the hyperbole-fuelled theatre of Westminster, where breathless rhetoric and implausible spin are so often the defining qualities, few events can truly be said to live up to a big billing. Yet when allies of the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, promised a “game-changing” address in the run-up to Friday’s economic announcement, for once the performance matched the promise.In fact, officials who had been billing the announcement as a mere “fiscal event” or “mini-budget” had been engaging in a rare piece of political understatement. What emerged was a package so large, bracingly expensive and unapologetically ideological that it looks certain to set the terms not just of the next election, but the country’s economic fortunes for years.The surprise abolition of the top rate of tax – saving tho...

Roger Federer during the last match of his career. / EFEsports CenterFederer's retirement shows that professionals reach their prime later and stretch their careers more and moreOne of the phrases in self-help books is that age is a state of mind. There may be elderly people in their 30s and adolescents in their 60s or 70s. In the case of sports, especially professional and elite sports, this reality collides with physical exhaustion. Roger Federer has decided to hang up his racket for good. The Laver Cup has been the last tournament with the presence of the legendary Swiss tennis player, after more than a year fighting against a knee that underwent surgery three times. The other two served him to continue, but he has ended up giving up. «I stopped believing that he could continue ...

The actress Ana de Armas at the San Sebastian Festival. / EphThe Spanish-Cuban actress transforms into Marilyn Monroe in a film by Andrew Dominik that Netflix will premiere on September 28Ana de Armas (Havana, 1988) was called Ana Celia de Armas when, in 2006, she came to Bilbao to promote 'Una rosa de Francia', a retro melodrama by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón set in Cuba in the 1950s. The camera loves her fascinating face”, wrote this journalist praising the work of that 16-year-old girl who was working for the first time as an actress. The following year came her series that made her popular, but at the same time became a small slab, 'El internado'. Later, Ana de Armas made the Americas and linked hits like 'Blade Runner 2049', 'Daggers in the back' and '007. No time to die'. 'Blonde...

From left to right, the leader of the Lega, Matteo Salvini, the leader of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, and the leader of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni. / AFPNationalist and eurosceptic discourses gain strength in Sweden, Bulgaria and Germany, in the heat of the crisis caused by the warVox's 52 seats in Spain, the rise of Marine LePen in France... After the pandemic, in the midst of an energy crisis and with an increase in prices due to the war in Ukraine, populist formations and nationalist movements have gained strength and They threaten to spread across Europe. The extreme right already controls Hungary and Poland; and it is becoming strong in countries like Bulgaria, Sweden, Germany and Italy, against a European Union that is often seen as an elitist and denationaliz...

Throughout the final week of Roger Federer's life as a professional tennis player, he handled his emotions far better than he had envisioned. But at the end of his final match alongside his rival Rafael Nadal, a tense 4-6, 7-6 11-9 loss representing Team Europe against Team World's Jack Sock and Frances Tiafoe at the Laver Cup in London's O2 Arena, the 41- year-old finally succumbed.As the tears began to fall, alongside him Nadal wept, too. After 18 years of meeting each other on the court, contesting some of the fiercest battles in the biggest finals around the world, they spent the final moments of Federer's career on the same side.Before Federer's first grand slam title at Wimbledon in 2003, men's tennis was at a crossroads. As the influence of top US players waned, some believed ...