Ada Ventures, the VC firm which backs breakthrough ideas, is set to become the first investor in Europe to directly support founders in their portfolio with the cost of childcare. The decision was sparked by a Treasury-led review into female ...

Over 10,000 SME owners, self-employed and budding entrepreneurs have applied for a single £25,000 Business Boost grant from insurer Simply Business, as the current economic climate takes a toll on small businesses. This milestone comes as the UK is facing ...

Over sixty per cent of UK marketers believe consumer segmentation – the categorisation of customers based on shared traits – is an outdated method of marketing, with 63% considering it totally unfit for purpose. That’s according to new research from ...

ISACA, the global professional association helping individuals and organisations in their pursuit of digital trust, has published new research looking at the state of cybersecurity. The research finds that of the cybersecurity professionals who said they were experiencing an increase ...

Apple is set to hire more artificial intelligence (AI) staff in the UK Tim Cook has announced. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, replied to a question about AI ans jobs in the UK by the PA news agency: “We’re hiring in ...

Businesses have been warned about excessively snooping into their workers’ activities and to make sure that any surveillance is legal, transparent and fair. New guidance issued to companies by the data watchdog states that while some monitoring of staff is ...

Factories are suffering one of their sharpest declines in activity in a decade and a half as higher interest rates and a downturn in global demand squeeze output. The final purchasing managers’ index for the manufacturing sector, published by S&P ...

Successful execution of a big project such as implementing new technology platforms or a new growth strategy is fundamental in ensuring a business survives. Yet, according to Forbes, fifty percent of Fortune 500 companies that existed 20 years ago have ...

MANAUS – The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating in a tributary of the Amazon River over the last week in circumstances that experts suspect was caused by severe drought and heat. Low river levels during a ...

GENEVA — The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended on Monday the use of a second malaria vaccine to curb the life-threatening disease spread to humans by some mosquitoes. “Almost exactly two years ago, WHO recommended the broad use of the ...