VW Sticking to its Smoking Guns
Electric dreams are no threat to the diesel engine, according to the boss of Volkswagen. Has Matthias Mueller got a cunning long-term plan, or...
University’s incubator programme selects cancer-fighting start-ups
TWENTY start-ups — eight of them operating projects in the field of cancer — have been selected for a University of Edinburgh incubator programme...
Majid Al Futtaim making tracks across MENA
UAE billionaire announces a raft of fresh investments to revitalise dozens of projects in the region…
By Darren Parkin
WHEN the Majid Al Futtaim Group –...
Case study: Jeff Bezos
Amazon boss gives peers a tactical lesson in how you can achieve growth while going for broke
NESTLED on the outskirts of a former coal...
Dirty rotten plastic? Biodegradable film cuts pollution and costs
A new Spanish firm hopes to end agricultural plastic waste with an environmentally friendly product. HAL WILLIAMS speaks to the founders…
PLASTIC is pretty much...
Alexander Karp: Somewhat Deviant
Ray Kroc, the man responsible for putting a McDonalds restaurant on almost every street corner in the world, once said that the two most...
Bhutan: Sustainable Happiness
At around the time Abba were raising a glass of Babycham to toast their number one chart success with Waterloo, the good folk of...
Chat GPT ‘could usher-in the four-day week’
MORE than a quarter of UK organisations are likely to make redundancies in 2023, according to research from HR consultancy Ayming UK — but...
Scott Eckert: Robots to the Rescue
Daniel H Wilson, the writer of humorous fiction like How to Survive a Robot Uprising and Robopocalypse says, tongue-in-cheek: “Someday mankind must face and...
Ben Silbermann: Modest Creator of the First Global Noticeboard
Ben Silbermann tapped into the primal hunter-gatherer instinct when he first experimented with an online pinboard product. Together with Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp,...
