If an organisation loses your personal data, would you expect them to tell you about it The media’s appetite for reporting stories of laptops lost on trains and cyber criminals’ ever more sophisticated hacking techniques is a reflection of the increasing importance of data security to consumers and corporates alike.
Intangible assets account for 64 per cent of the total value of UK companies, a growth of 17 per cent since 2012. Although this positions Britain as the fourth most “intangible, IP economy” in the world, it also makes it prone to foreign takeovers.
iDisrupted author John Straw has claimed that Google’s not really bothered about its performance in the stock market. In fact, the worse it performs the better.
While east London has become a mainstay for media and tech startups over the past decade, other areas of the capital have been looking to join the action. The latest movement around Camden has arguably been the most intriguing so far.
Digital technologies have had a game-changing impact on most industries across the UK. You don’t need to look further than organisations such as Uber and Airbnb to see how truly transformative technology has been to a wide range of industries. Yet there’s one industry that hasn’t seen much impact from technology, but is on the cusp of something great: recruitment.
From Warner Bros' Iron Giant and Bicentennial Man's Andrew to Wall-E and Gigolo Joe from Artificial Intelligence, the movie verse has often given robots personalities in order to advance plot lines and create drama. But this concept may no longer be the preserve of science fiction.
By fostering strength among the group of mid-sized manufacturers it comprises, Germany’s Mittelstand has become recognised as a global powerhouse which has played a role in propelling the nation’s economy to be the fourth biggest in the world by GDP.
John Glenn, who became the first American in orbit, once said the "role of men is to go to war and into space. Women are not involved in these activities."
The UK's general election campaign officially kicked off last week and it is no surprise that markets woke up to the ensuing political discourse: the UK equity market underperformed the major markets, losing 0.7 per cent. The decline came in spite of relatively sanguine economic reports, including a modest upward revision to fourth quarter GDP, consumer confidence reaching its highest level for almost 13 years and solid manufacturing data.
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