A year after introducing a Bluetooth-connected Oral-B toothbrush and accompanying app at Mobile Word Congress, consumer products firm Procter & Gamble has returned to the technology trade show in Barcelona with a software development kit for third party firms.
UK parenting startup Funifi has introduced a mobile app to make chores a fun experience for children, working in partnership with Unilever through its Foundry scheme, which provides technology innovators support, experience and investment.
Two sisters working in immigration law, Sadia Tanvir-Navaab and Almas Tanvir-Khan, quit their legal careers for a move into entrepreneurship to open the Avant Garde vaping bar in London’s West End, noting Wonder Woman as an inspiration.
Hotel Football is On 2nd March, former Manchester United players Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville will be opening the world’s first Hotel Football.
Many women in tech seeking female role models currently look towards the most visible, the headline-makers, like Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and Yahoo’s Marissa Meyer. However, as amazing as those women are, the ‘Inspiring Fifty’ made it their mission to showcase the many accomplished, and all-too-often overlooked women in technology a lot closer to home.
By Jason Hesse
Up and down the country, fed-up workers (and ex-workers) have been committing acts of revenge on their colleagues and customers. Here are the top ten workplace revenge stories.
Hackers, we know them well. In In 2010 the average web site was found to have over 230 serious vulnerabilities. In 2013, it was discovered that 30,000 websites were attacked each day and 2014 saw an onslaught of user credentials being stolen from popular sites such as eBay. This year has seen Coca-Cola tweeting chunks of Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
A survey has found 71 per cent of office workers will check their social media feeds on their smartphones during meetings.
An increase in UK exports has been a rare good story amid an anaemic recovery. But when picking which country to target next, SMEs need to be mindful of banned imports.
Oliver’s Travels is luxury holiday and wedding company, which now claims to provide the perfect weather on couples’ big days through its “cloud-bursting service”.
