Innovation

Zaha Hadid (1950-2016): “I Don’t Design Nice Buildings”

Zaha Hadid orphaned this world on March 31 and left it waiting for great works that now will never be. Architects bloom late in...

Juliette Brindak: Girl Power

The information technology revolution opens the doors to a host of new businesses for tech-savvy young entrepreneurs with an eye for a market opportunity....

North America: New Canadian Realities and Assorted Trans-Oceanic Rivalries

Canadian voters have been in a rather rebellious mood since the early 2010s when voters in Saskatchewan ousted the long-ruling and progressive New Democratic...

Can Australia’s richest woman stay under the radar?

VERY little is known about the reclusive Vicky Teoh, and only a handful of people even know what she looks like, but the veil...

PwC: Oil & Gas in Africa – Planning a Response to...

Overall, activity in the oil and gas industry across the African continent has slowed in the wake of the declining prices in late 2014....
Jo Halliday, CEO, Talking Medicines

AI and machine learning bolster pharma data-analysis

A SPECIALIST in social intelligence for the pharmaceutical industry has developed a systematic way of measuring patients’ experience of taking medicines. Glasgow-based Talking Medicines was...
Planet Mark electric battle bus

Get on the bus! UK drive for carbon reduction starts up

BUSINESSES across the UK will be offered carbon-reduction workshops and practical net-zero advice until the end of COP26 in November. Workshops will be provided by...

Hail to the Maintainers

About ten years ago, leftist firebrand satirist Freek de Jonge, the grand old man of Dutch stand-up comedy, turned to conservative newspaper De Telegraaf...

Khoa Phan: Six Life-Changing Seconds

Vine has propelled Khoa Phan to fame and fortune. The young Californian explains: “I started making “vines” to bring my imagination into reality for...

Helmut Schmidt (1918-2015): Pure Genius at the Helm

When the Cold War cast its sinister shadow over Europe, one man turned a key that opened a door for the USA, and allowed...