Countries across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are implementing smart city technologies such as smart surveillance along with data hub system for advanced contact tracing of COVID-19 infected citizens, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Manish Chaurasiya, Senior Technology Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “Though the spread of COVID-19 has hindered the roll-out of large-scale […]
Months of 24/7 occupation have fundamentally transformed the role of the home Consumers’ collective concerns about hygiene, wellbeing and immunity will continue to influence how we live Homes will adapt to become ‘blended spaces’, able to fluidly facilitate different kinds of work, rest, recuperation and play “The Age of Nesting”, a new report released by […]
· 23% of UK’s top performing businesses have been supported by local enterprise partnerships and growth hubs · Similarly, 30% of Britain’s strongest businesses have obtained external finance in the last 3 years · New findings come as part of an independent, holistic study into small business success, commissioned by Allica Bank to support British […]
“Flatten the curve.” Do you remember that phrase? It was on everyone’s lips back in the spring, when the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began rampaging across the world in earnest. By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber At the time, the idea was that the best way to combat the germ known as SARS […]
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited the construction site of what is rapidly becoming the UK’s Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre. He met with scientists, engineers, development, and construction teams at the construction site on Harwell Science and Innovation Campus where he talked about their response to COVID-19 and the fast tracking of the […]
· Funding increased by 940% since the beginning of lockdown – compared to the same period last year, making cybersecurity the fastest growing start-up sector in the UK · £496m raised by UK cybersec firms in the first half of 2020 · 44% increase in no. of cybersec start-ups in the past 2 years · […]
As businesses return to the workplace following encouragement from the Government, employment law and health and safety experts warn that employees must play their part in adhering to occupational safety measures to ensure, so far as possible, a safe return to work. Government guidance continues to be that if employees can work from home that […]
Researchers detect nearly 10,000 exposed databases with more than 10 billion credentials available for the world to see. When databases are left unprotected, hackers don’t even need to hack According to NordPass’s research, the web is swirling with exposed databases. Recently, researchers have identified a total of 9,517 unsecured databases containing 10,463,315,645 entries with such […]
The numbers show that the U.S.’s performance in response to the pandemic has been shockingly poor, if not disastrous. They reflect a failure to control the spread of new cases, continuing deaths, inadequate testing, and the politicization of decisions that should be purely science- and data-based. All this has happened in spite of available resources […]
•Luxury purchases will continue to increase locally in Mainland China as Chinese customers do not intend to travel abroad in the coming months, even if travel bans are lifted. •Even though online purchases will strengthen post-COVID-19, Chinese customers still consider visiting the physical store to purchase luxury goods. One of the key reasons is the […]