Entrepreneurs are among the greatest risk takers of them all. It’s built into our DNA – that special something that enables us to turn a simple idea into a money-generating, employment-creating enterprise.
With Infosecurity 2016, arguably the biggest security show in Europe, just around the corner I’ve been thinking about all the new technologies, innovations, standards and trends that will be displayed over this coming week – and how many organisations still rely way too heavily on simple blind trust.
The war between Alibaba CEO Jack Ma and brands across the globe continues, with counterfeit goods increasingly being found on the Chinese retailer’s platforms. But assigning the blame to everyone else seems to be taking its toll on the entrepreneur.
Britain has earnt its place as the recognised world capital for fintech, with more than half of 2015’s European venture capital investments in fintech going to London firms – amounting to a record £343m. But that could change on 23 June.
Atanas Kiryakov, founder and CEO of Ontotext, discusses social media’s role in the EU referendum and how recent data sheds light on the upcoming vote
By Jan Cavelle
Increasingly modern day culture has veered towards an almost diva-like attitude to employment, meaning we have to work harder to recruit and retain good people. But unless we do so, we have no hope of having a successful company.
By Ronda Majure
Imagine a world where a brand could make a digital blueprint of a product – the customer could choose a specific blueprint, select a fabricator to make it and have it shipped straight to them. This is just one possibility in the future world of 3D printing, and no matter how sci-fi it sounds, the rapid advancement of tech has brought this scenario closer.
Disillusion, deceit, discontent, dishonour, disgrace, mixed with vanity and greed, is the lethal potion that brings all empires down – the oxymoron that is the EU is rotting away. The time has more than come for us to leave and cut our losses, before we are economically and politically drowned in its sea of strife.
By Stuart Law
Back in 2007, disaster struck the financial services world, but it wasn’t the events of those dark nights in New York that caused it – it was years of change within financial services. Change was inevitable, but is change always good
More madness has descended the City where the crooks in suits are going stir crazy in their ivory towers swapping their pin stripes for polo shirts!
