Israel ice cream row heats up
ICE CREAM maker Ben & Jerry's is to end sales in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The firm intends to construct a different distribution...
Data do or data don’t? MIT study sees benefits for decision-making
A REPORT by MIT’s Technology Review Insights indicates that decision-makers tend to excel when they deploy analytics and machine learning.
The report, produced in association...
Can digital nomad visas enable us to work from anywhere…?
Businesses need to prepare for international remote working, argues KRISTIAN TORODE
THE CONCEPT of digital nomads isn’t exactly new — but a recent visa trend...
EV News Round-up Summer 2021
By RICHARD THOMAS
EV SALES in the US grew by 95 percent between January and April, compared with a 36 percent increase in the overall...
Cement industry aims to cut carbon with new initiative
IF THE cement industry were to be considered as a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world — surpassed only by...
Plant-based, and growing strong: vegan burger funding hits £2m
ON A MISSION to bring a vegan menu to the high street, plant-based pioneer Ready Burger has closed its first funding round with Crowdcube,...
The UK’s newest entrepreneurs by generation … and by name
PEOPLE aged 25 to 40 have set up 49 percent of new businesses in Britain since July 2020.
A study was conducted by cloud accounting...
Younger workers are keen to get back to the office, survey...
A CLOCKWISE survey has found that a majority of Gen Z workers would prefer to work from an office.
Ministers have proposed legal changes that...
The dangers of ‘going-it alone’ on cybersecurity
By MARK SKELTON
IF 2020 GOES down in history as the year that shifted the priorities, goals, and needs of businesses across every sector, 2021...
More holes in the high street: Gap shuts UK and Irish...
FASHION giant Gap is the latest firm to forego bricks and mortar and embrace e-commerce, announcing plans to close its 81 stores in the...
‘Sleepwalking to disaster’ as firms fail to see discontent
BUSINESSES are sleepwalking towards a costly staff exodus, new research warns.
Four in ten employees are looking to change roles in the next year, or...
Bitcoin: timing is everything, and there are clues to follow
ANYONE following the British public’s interest when buying and selling Bitcoin this year would have made a 27 percent profit — equivalent to £8,602.37...