Oil giant’s massive profits — and legal woes

SHELL has seen record annual profits since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The oil giant’s profits hit £32.2bn last year: double the previous year’s tally, and...

Ready to write? This bot has got you…

AI writing tool ChatGPT is taking the world by storm. What exactly is it? What’s its potential, for good or ill? BV editor HAL...

Scope 4 emissions: Are they relevant to your business?

By LAURA BOWLER and SHANE HUGHES SUSTAINABILITY and emissions reporting has become an expected business practice. The newly formed International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) recently published...

Bridging the education comms gap

By SIMON HORTON EDUCATION institutions need competent communication systems to thrive. As schools, colleges and universities expand their hybrid learning packages, there has been a 90...

Tech Nation winds-down after grant funding is cut

AFTER a decade as a government-backed organisation in the UK scale-up ecosystem, Tech Nation will cease operations and seeks to transfer its assets. The decision...

Seers seek signs for tech sector future

TEN EXPERTS from tech consultancy Opencast have a guess at what we might see in 2023. Co-founder Mike O’Brien kicks off: “More focus on resilience...

Lengthy bans for directors who fiddled Covid scheme

AN AVERAGE of 35 directors are being banned by the UK Insolvency Service each month for abusing the Covid Support Scheme. That’s almost treble the...

Get your gig going — and find freedom…

TIPALTI, a firm which delivers end-to-end payables solutions, has looked at the median hourly rate, median monthly income and median annual income of the...

Women left behind in pay and pensions

GENDER pay-gaps are nothing new, but there is increasing awareness of the unfairness of the syndrome — at various levels. Workplace pay scales are one...