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FrançaisDevelopments in AI, automation, augmented reality and robotics have spurred on changes that merely a few years ago would have been unimaginable. From self-driving cars to drones and even predictive …
Fake news and the finance industry
After the Facebook – Cambridge Analytica scandal, now it seems Twitter might come under fire. While the famous microblog hasn’t had any big privacy issues yet, “fake news” on the …
Beating the algorithm: what the rise of voice e-commerce means for retail
Just like online shopping before it, voice-controlled shopping is set to be the next disruptive force in retail. Almost half of the households will own a Google Home, Amazon Alexa …
Bitcoin: What’s the word?
If Bitcoin’s incredibly fickle nature wasn’t already common knowledge, the tail-end of 2017 and the start of 2018 was a harsh lesson for new crypto investors attempting to capitalise on …
Significant drop in number of Eastern Europeans searching for UK jobs online
Google searches for jobs in the UK dropped by 35% across Poland, Romania and Bulgaria between 2016 and 2017 Searches for jobs in the UK’s agriculture and manufacturing sectors fell …
2017 in review: What was hot, what was not, and our predictions for 2018
2017 has been a record-breaking year for the private equity world, and valuations have risen ever higher, despite geopolitical instability. PE Firms break new records Preqin and Barr data reveals …
Dotcom bubble 2.0? Is the TMT market sustainable?
Remember eXcite, boo.com or Pets.com? These darlings of the first tech boom in the late nineties are now best known as symbols of its excess, with stories of private jets, …
Ready, set go: Where is UK in the digital race?
In a world increasingly driven by technology, people have got used to the prompt improvements in how they search for data, completing online shopping and managing their bank accounts online. …
Food in crisis: is Brexit putting us on the Breadline?
Frozen working-age benefits, slow wage growth and rising inflation thanks to Brexit mean that an average household income in Britain will keep stagnating each year. Although many of the low-income …
Trends and Threats in Travel
If you are managing a consumer fund and travel is not at the top of your considerations, then it might be time to rethink. Not least because the global travel …