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It ain’t half easy to see why Bitcoin value is rising

By Hal Williams THE CRYPTOCURRENCY world isn’t known for doing things by halves — unless we’re talking about Bitcoin. The most buoyant and respected of the...
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‘The halving’ approaches, all eyes are on the value of Bitcoin

A UK BITCOIN exchange says more people are entering the Bitcoin market in the run-up to the halving in May. A halving (sometimes called a...
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Blue for thinking, green for chilling: office design 2.0

By GUZMÁN YARZA DE BLACHE SPENDING the evening scrolling through work emails is something we all do, and it’s a bad habit – a leading...
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Hidden costs of recruitment: staff are leaving early, underperforming

BUSINESSES employing up to 250 people are losing 14 percent of their staff each year, only to see 39 percent of their new employees...
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Undertrained, underemployed and unprepared: UK squandering potential of workers

A REPORT by the City & Guilds Group shines a worrying light on the UK’s skills and productivity crisis. As productivity continues to decline, businesses...
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EV News Round-up Spring 2020

By RICHARD THOMAS APART from range anxiety, the main reservation about electric vehicles (EVs) has been the question of whether they are actually "greener" than...
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EV News Round-up Winter 2019-20

By RICHARD THOMAS THE MOST-CLICKED recent news story in the world of electric vehicles has been the launch of the Tesla Cybertruck. In itself that wouldn’t...
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Press ponders the wisdom and reason for British Steel buy-out

BRITISH Steel late last year announced a “rescue deal” with China's Jingye Group, a move that was expected to safeguard up to 4,000 UK...
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Grim UN report shows half-a-billion people struggling to find work

ALMOST half-a-billion people around the world battle to find sufficient paid work, a UN report on employment and social trends shows. The World Employment and Social...
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UK car market stalled for fears of ‘emissions laws and Brexit’

NEW UK car registrations in 2019 fell to their lowest level in six years. A total of 2.31m new cars were registered in 2019, down...