A gender seeking lenders: Go, girls!
IT MAY once have been a man’s world, but the Department for Business and Trade and the Council for Investing in Female Entrepreneurs aim...
Africa: Life After the Resources Super Cycle
If one region has dominated the discussions at the World Economic Forum, it has been Africa. That continent’s diversity, contrasting fortunes, unique challenges, and...
Troubled Deciem founder Brandon Truaxe passes on
BRANDON Truaxe, the founder of Canadian skincare company Deciem, has died of unknown causes at the age...
Social Supermarket’s grand branding idea for social impact
THE UK's largest marketplace for social impact products has announced the launch of a Branded Merchandise offering for corporates.
The B Corp-certified organisation’s business model...
Europe: Hiccups on the Iberian Peninsula
While Europe lurches from one crisis to the next, Spain and Portugal have been quietly going about their business, steering themselves back to stability...
Millions of middle-agers out of work
LONGEVITY thinktank Phoenix Insights has found that 27 percent of the UK’s 50- to 64-year-olds — 3,547,000 people — are economically inactive.
The report found...
EU looks to balance post-Brexit books, but it isn’t plain sailing
By Jason Agnew
AS BREXIT flounders to its uncertain conclusion, the 27 remaining EU countries are contemplating life after the departure of the most contentious...
Born under a bad sign? Libra seems set to face opposition
THE TRUMP administration’s all-encompassing “national security concerns” have been invoked once more, this time in relation to Facebook’s plans to launch its own cryptocurrency,...
Electric car production has shocks in store for ‘super-entrepreneur’ Musk
ACCORDING to Bloomberg, Tesla – which, whoa, has been in business for 15 years – is burning $6,500 each and every minute. Someone do...





































