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Tactical planning in negotiation: isn’t strategy enough?
Market28 October 2022

Tactical planning in negotiation: isn’t strategy enough?

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. Negotiations rarely fall down at the strategic planning stage. They fail because we have not considered all possible outcomes, because not all of the players ...

Google is killing its controversial AMP requirement.
Industry28 February 2022

Google is killing its controversial AMP requirement.

Bad news, what’s coming could be even worse ... For years, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) format was required to rank in the Google News carousel. No more! Google introduces ‘Core Web Vitals’ to replace the former. AMP has not disappeared...

Urban Farming - How to Farm Inside the City
Business13 February 2022

Urban Farming - How to Farm Inside the City

Have you always wanted to be a farmer, but the country life is too far away? Did you want to take up urban farming and grow your own produce in the city? I've got some great tips on how to get started and what steps you need to take to turn your spac...

Will Starlink solve the world’s internet problems?
Industry28 December 2019

Will Starlink solve the world’s internet problems?

In a world of innovations and rapidly changing technology, the importance of the internet cannot be overemphasized. It is still quite appalling that with all the advancements in technology, more than half of the world is still unconnected to the inte...

Cancel culture, is online outage going too far?
Market28 September 2019

Cancel culture, is online outage going too far?

It is one thing to express your right to freedom of speech and an entirely different matter for your opinion to be received well by others. Worse still, when the opinion you share is quite an unpopular view and especially in today's social media circ...

eToro, the future of online trading?
Business26 February 2019

eToro, the future of online trading?

Founded in 2006 by brothers Yoni Assia and Ronen Assia together with David Ring, eToro has grown to become the world’s leading social trading platform. Social trading platforms are a mixture of traditional brokerage and social media websites. For peo...

Uber Go After Deliveroo in Pursuit of a Merger Deal
Business28 November 2018

Uber Go After Deliveroo in Pursuit of a Merger Deal

Uber have announced their interest in the takeaway market, and in particular their interest in Deliveroo. Deliveroo currently operates within 290 cities around the world, bringing in a total annual revenue of around $6 billion. With competitors such ...

The Trade 'War' Saga Continues between China and America
Market23 November 2018

The Trade 'War' Saga Continues between China and America

The trade war between America and China has been ongoing for a while now, however, there has been a recent escalation between the two countries and it doesn’t look like either leaders are backing down. President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs...

Facebook Board Call for Zuckerberg to Step Down
Business16 November 2018

Facebook Board Call for Zuckerberg to Step Down

Mark Zuckerberg is currently Facebook’s chairman and CEO; however, the board are beginning to doubt Zuckerberg’s ability to maintain both roles and instead appoint a new director of the board. These demands come very soon after a continuation of scru...

Vintage Fashion Resurgence Boosts Dr Martens Profit
Business16 October 2018

Vintage Fashion Resurgence Boosts Dr Martens Profit

Profits at Dr Martens have increased by a third as the Northamptonshire-based boot brand got a kick from a 90s fashion revival. The rise was led by a surge in demand across Europe, where the company opened 16 new stores, taking its total worldwide to...

Demand for a No-Deal Brexit from the British Public
Market23 August 2018

Demand for a No-Deal Brexit from the British Public

In a recent poll, 54% of the British public said that a no-deal Brexit was likely and 70% believe that prices will rise as a result. The UK government intend to push the first batch of notes on a no-deal Brexit soon. A survey by KPMG made up of over ...

Kabila Regime Change Prompts Concern Over AVZ Minerals
Business13 August 2018

Kabila Regime Change Prompts Concern Over AVZ Minerals

Joseph Kabila, the controversial president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is to step down later this year in a move that has surprised the mining industry and prompted concern about investments in the country. Kabila has run the DRC for 1...

Why Musk wants Tesla to go Private
Market6 August 2018

Why Musk wants Tesla to go Private

Tesla CEO Elon Musk blew Wall Street's mind when, just after the Financial Times reported that the Saudi sovereign wealth fund had invested $2 billion in the company, he tweeted that he was considering taking the 15-year-old company private at $420 p...