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March 26, 2019

End ‘corporate greed’ and link CEO salaries to employee pay, say MPs

After bosses at companies including Persimmon Homes, BT, Royal Mail and Unilever took home "excessive" salaries and bonuses, the BEIS committee has called for tighter regulation on executive pay

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March 25, 2019

How to avoid the email scam that saw Facebook and Google lose over $100m

Sharing Economy

March 25, 2019

Sharing economy companies list: From Airbnb and Uber to Omni and Hubble, 15 start-ups disrupting their industries

Innovators

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Innovators March 25, 2019

From speedy boarding to protecting children online, here are some of the use cases for digital IDs

Water technology companies: Seven start-ups bringing tech to the tap

Six cloud gaming companies pioneering a $140bn global industry as Google Stadia launches

How the Magic Table projector delivers happiness to dementia patients

Influencers

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Editor's Pick March 25, 2019

Women working in football: Profiling 11 female directors at Premier League clubs

POC in Play movement founder on diversity in the video games industry and the need for change

Profiling nine Irish business leaders, including Ryanair and Leicester City bosses

Sports lawyer Daniel Geey gives the inside scoop on the business side of football

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Can essay writing companies survive a government crackdown to ‘beat the cheats’?

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Major currencies of the world: A brief overview of the seven most traded currencies

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Here are five of the biggest investments in driverless cars made in the past year

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Which F1 team comes first on the podium for sponsorship deals?

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Nine Irish tech start-ups turning the Emerald Isle into the AI Isle

Features

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Editor's Pick March 22, 2019

Digital IDs: Could they be the future of online verification?

How SelectaDNA is helping police to catch criminals by tagging offenders with DNA spray

Here’s where the UK’s last remaining mines are still being operated – and where others are planned

World Recycling Day: Here’s the five best recycling countries in the world

Climate change

Analysis

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Analysis March 20, 2019

Europeans anxious about growing role of tech in society… but still trust AI more than politicians

Ranking the 10 biggest brands in the world – and looking at the challenges they face

Major currencies of the world: A brief overview of the seven most traded currencies

Which F1 team comes first on the podium for sponsorship deals?

News

March 18, 2019

Here are five of the biggest investments in driverless cars made in the past year

A number of global automakers, including Volkswagen and Toyota, have poured billions of dollars into driverless car technology over the past 12 months
March 15, 2019

Nine Irish tech start-ups turning the Emerald Isle into the AI Isle

From eco-apps and VR lessons to AI-powered shops and insect biotech, Ireland has a strong and diverse start-up ecosystem
- Finance and Banking
- Sport
March 15, 2019

From alien abduction to penises, here’s seven weird things you didn’t know can be insured

Often regarded as a stale industry by the public, it's not widely known that insurance companies cover some truly bizarre risks associated with assets and activities
March 14, 2019

Meet Mike Brockman, the serial entrepreneur who brought a conservative industry into the 21st century

Mike Brockman is a visionary in the insurance industry after founding insurethebox, which uses black box telematics tech inside cars to collect driver data, and now making "every car a smart car" with his super dash cam start-up ThingCo
March 14, 2019

From London to Tallinn, how five European cities plan to transform mobility with 5G

KNect365 highlighted five European cities for having the potential to transform transport through the use of 5G
March 13, 2019

Meet Richard Dodgson, the entrepreneur who runs events for Sting and Hugo Boss

Richard Dodgson founded London-based events company Timebased in 1996 and now organises awards dinners and festivals for brands including GQ, Vogue, Hugo Boss, M&S and Glamour
March 13, 2019

Implications of a no-deal Brexit: How energy, banking and healthcare industries could be affected

Britain is due to leave the EU on 29 March and the implications of a no-deal Brexit are stacking up for industries including technology, banking, energy, healthcare, food and insurance
- Healthcare
March 13, 2019

As more smokers quit cigarettes, what does the future hold for the tobacco industry?

E-cigarette company Juul, which is ranked among the most valuable start-ups in Silicon Valley, could hold the key to the future of the tobacco industry as the number of global smokers declines
- Finance and Banking
- Sport
March 12, 2019

Analysing top 10 football kit deals: Which club profits the most from its shirt supplier?

From the Nike tick on Barcelona’s maroon and blue top to the three stripes of Adidas on Manchester United’s red strip, the small logos represent big business for Europe’s top clubs
- Data
- Technology
March 12, 2019

What is the DWeb? How third generation of the internet could quash online security and privacy fears

Law academics Edina Harbinja and Vasileios Karagiannopoulos discuss how a third generation of web technology, known as the DWeb or Web 3.0, will bring the power of the internet back into our hands in an article for The Conversation, republished here