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6 Jun
These are the 10 best cities in Europe to do business in 2017
Doing business in Europe is looking a whole lot more uncertain than it did just a year ago
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1 Jun
Fear the fall: the armyworm that threatens food growers everywhere
The fall armyworm has been ravaging South America for years.
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26 May
10 lessons for building a successful startup
London-based startup Memrise recently won Best App at the 2017 Google Play Awards for changing the way we learn languages.
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20 May
Forget fintech — insurtech is here and it’s got bots
2017 is the year insurtech comes into its own, according to KPMG.
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15 May
From next year EU rules means your car will be able to call the police
By April next year, all cars in the EU will be legally required to carry tech that will call emergency services in the event of a crash.
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25 Apr
The importance of being well
Things are fast-changing.
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22 Apr
Artificial intelligence and cyber security: a tech match made in heaven
We’re only a few months into 2017 and cyber attacks seem to be hitting the headlines even more regularly than last year.
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21 Apr
Trump’s attack on the media is just what journalism needs
The US media is “the enemy of the people,” the US president Donald Trump declared after less than a month in office.
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13 Apr
Argentina is open for business and these companies want to have a piece of the action
Since the right-leaning Mauricio Macri gained the presidency in 2015, he’s been trying to integrate Argentina back into the international community.
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3 Apr
UPDATE: After a second attack maritime piracy seems to be well and truly back — but did it ever stop?
Somali pirates have hijacked an Indian cargo ship, in the second attack after a two year hiatus.
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30 Mar
UN nuclear weapons talks: Will we ever have a world without nukes?
Negotiations began this week at the United Nations (UN) to discuss a treaty to outlaw nuclear weapons.
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28 Mar
Baltic gold rush: illegal amber mining in Russia and Ukraine is destroying the environment
Illegal amber mining is flourishing in Russia and Ukraine, but as local gangs take advantage of the bountiful stone, the environment is quickly being destroyed.
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24 Mar
Smile at the fashion robots: AI is turning heads in retail
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been doing some pretty cool things of late.
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22 Mar
Watchdog reveals supermarkets hold firm grip over suppliers
Charging suppliers for customer complaints and bullying them into buying charity tables; supermarkets have been throwing their weight around.
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20 Mar
Sexual harassment claims, lawsuits and CEO tantrums: what is going on at Uber?
Uber has been hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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20 Mar
Could cheaper sugar offset the sugar tax?
The UK’s exit from the European Union is likely to change the sugary drinks sector, and has the potential, according to the British Soft Drinks Association (BSDA), to make the infamous sugar tax obsolete.
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17 Mar
Brand Wars: The Return of the Jedi Andersen
Former member of the so-called Big Five accounting firms Arthur Andersen has returned to the headlines, and two groups, one headquartered in the USA and one headquartered in France, claim to be the rightful heir of the iconic accountancy firm.
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8 Mar
What the rise of e-sports means for the gambling industry
Competitive video gaming — e-sports — have existed for nearly as long as the games themselves.
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3 Mar
Say hello to the Robo-bankers: how AI is affecting banking and finance
Whether your interaction with artificial intelligence (AI) is limited to science-fiction or you spend more time in your day talking to Siri and Alexa than actual humans, you can’t hide from the fact AI is changing the world.
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28 Feb
Going to war with the fourth estate: what threat does Trump pose to the media?
President Trump appears to be waging a war against the US media.
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25 Feb
Digitizing democracy: A Romanian group wants people to be more plugged in to government policy
A young team of IT-savvy volunteers is working on an app that empowers Romanian citizens to more easily follow changes in the country’s legislation.
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23 Feb
Budget 2017: does the UK pay too much tax on its alcohol?
Brexit is looming and UK prime minister Theresa May is adamantly sticking to the end-of-March deadline for the triggering of Article 50 and the formal process of leaving the European Union.
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22 Feb
People are buying fake train tickets online — how much of a problem is it?
Fake rail tickets are being sold at a fraction of their real price on the dark web and then used at UK rail stations.
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20 Feb
Are automatic trains ever going to become a reality?
There’s plenty of speculation as to the future of how trains will get from one station to another.
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17 Feb
The AI impact: how bots are changing the healthcare industry
Training to become a doctor takes around seven years in the UK, in terms of a five-year university education and two years training as a junior doctor.
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16 Feb
Trump policy: dismantling Dodd Frank and what it means beyond the US
US president Donald Trump’s first few weeks in power have already been the source of much controversy.
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15 Feb
Fool’s gold: Remove the financial incentive of fake news
Hoaxes, misinformation and conspiracy theories — for the past few months, the danger posed by “fake news” has dominated the headlines.
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14 Feb
The race to Mars is on: what will future colonists find under the red planet’s surface?
The surface of Mars has fascinated generations of science fiction writers.
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10 Feb
All aboard: The UK has joined China’s expanding European freight market
Can a direct freight train between China and London deliver stronger trade relations between the two countries?
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31 Jan
Trump’s travel ban: is it legal and why did he fire his attorney-general?
Last night, US president Donald Trump fired his acting attorney-general Sally Yates, after she told government lawyers not to defend legal challenges against his travel ban blocking citizens of seven countries from the US. Colin Yeo, a UK asylum barrister, explains Trump’s executive order isn’t a law and appears to have been formulated with little or no