Analysis, opinion and field notes on enterprise AI deployment, digital transformation and doing business in Malta. Written by the operator, not a content team.
Oracle’s workforce fell by 21,000 in a year. Another $700 million in restructuring suggests the AI-era reorganisation is not over.
I live close enough to Bet365's Malta office to imagine exactly what this morning looked like inside it. The UK's Remote Gaming Duty went from 21% to 40% in April. The bill is now arriving
Kalshi and Polymarket hold 95%+ of the market. OG.com just got Robinhood as a distribution partner and Citadel as a backer. The prediction markets land grab is accelerating
Mistral AI raised €3bn at a €21bn valuation this week. Three years ago it was four people in an office called "le frigo" — the fridge — because there was no heating. Europe's AI bet is starting to loo
Six valuations in 18 months. $1bn in annualised revenue. AI agents with Visa cards. Whoever holds the ledger for machine spend holds the next control point in enterprise finance.
35% corporate tax that becomes 5%. Personal income that isn't taxed if you don't bring it home. No wealth tax, no inheritance tax, no estate tax. Here is how Malta's system actually works.
BOV, HSBC, BNF, EMIs, Wise, Airwallex — the options are real. The waiting times, rejection rates, and workarounds are what nobody tells you before you start.
The pitch is simple: 5% effective corporate tax. The reality involves imputation systems, refund timing, substance requirements, and a compliance stack that nobody mentions in the brochure.
Malta's Call 2 grant is real money. The consultants who appeared six months ago won't tell you why most applications fail before page three.
Over 100 court hearings. On the electoral register. I could have been one of those nine jurors. Here is what Malta's jury system actually says.
Lovin Malta acquired Love Malta this week, backed by Chiliz founder Alexandre Dreyfus's €10M fund. Malta's media landscape just changed. And the island's other media outlets said nothing.
Uber just cut 10% of its workforce — its biggest layoffs since COVID. The CEO says it's about structure, not weakness. He's right but he's not telling you the full story about the weakness
Nike has been removed from the S&P 100 for the first time in 18 years. The stock is down 78% from its 2021 peak. Winter is coming!
Volta was founded in January 2026. By August, it had signed a $10 billion compute deal with Anthropic and emerged from stealth with a $2.4 billion valuation.
LinkedIn spent a week celebrating Nik Storonsky's $500 billion pay deal. Nobody explained how his stake goes from 29% to 40%, what dilution means, or why a bank trading at 67x earnings needs a number
Kalshi means "everything" in Arabic. Wikipedia lists it under sports betting. New York wants $36 billion. Malta calls it an innovation. Only one of these things can be right.