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Brands need a more sustainable strategy to connect with consumers on purpose

Brands need a more sustainable strategy to connect with consumers on purpose

By Jacqueline Junke, UK Market Lead at Appinio In June each year, LGBTQ+ communities all around the world connect online a..

Why Organic Traffic is Key for Online Businesses

Why Organic Traffic is Key for Online Businesses

By: Richard Heyes, Managing Director and Founder of Tecmark, SEO agency in Manchester If you’re a website owner of any kin..

Supporting your remote workers

Supporting your remote workers

By James Cook https://www.spidergroup.com/ Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, people have had to adapt to a new way of running their..

Why is branding important for new start-ups?

Why is branding important for new start-ups?

By: Gareth Hoyle, Managing Director of Manchester-based agency, Marketing Signals: Do start-ups need branding? Branding is essential f..

Creating an effective E-Commerce Marketing Strategy

Creating an effective E-Commerce Marketing Strategy

By: Natalie Howells, https://www.spidergroup.com/ Having a clear strategy in place is vital for the marketing of your e-commerce busin..

Why subscription boxes are winners in a pandemic

Why subscription boxes are winners in a pandemic

By Rachel Wood, founder of Rare Birds Book Club Subscriptions are on the rise and cropping up in every industry; consumers like the fl..

Revealed: 1.45 million tonnes of e-waste is produced by households & businesses per annum

Revealed: 1.45 million tonnes of e-waste is produced by households & businesses per annum

The demand has never been higher, but neither has the cost for new equipment. Sales of laptop and desktop computers exceeded 302 milli..

The Small Business’s Guide to Getting Started in Digital Advertising

The Small Business’s Guide to Getting Started in Digital Advertising

By Lisen Zethraeus, CMO at DanAds It’s an exciting time for a small business when it looks to launch its first ad campaign. But the wo..

Clients + Marketing = The Perfect Marriage

Clients + Marketing = The Perfect Marriage

In a world where everyone’s an expert, cancel culture has serious implications, and fake news is easy to come by, it’s hard to trust t..

The problem with measuring customer loyalty; and how to overcome it

The problem with measuring customer loyalty; and how to overcome it

Andrew Wilkins, CEO and Founder, Futr AI Customer loyalty is the holy grail for businesses seeking to grow. There’s a well-used statis..

Three Years Later: GDPR is All Talk and No Action

Three Years Later: GDPR is All Talk and No Action

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced on May 25th 2018. This legislation focuses on data protection and privacy..

Brand Strategy Tactics for an Online Learning Platform

Brand Strategy Tactics for an Online Learning Platform

By: Johnathan Reynolds, CEO of Learned.Live, the UK’s first live and interactive e-learning platform.   There is no doubt a..

Musk trial asks the $2 billion question: Who controls Tesla?

Musk trial asks the $2 billion question: Who controls Tesla?

By Tom Hals and Sierra Jackson (Reuters) – Does Elon Musk control Tesla Inc or does Tesla control Elon Musk? More than $2 billio..

Over half of businesses now have a policy on whether to pay out on ransomware attacks, says Databarracks research

Over half of businesses now have a policy on whether to pay out on ransomware attacks, says Databarracks research

Reliance on cyber insurance, or paying out if cost is lower than internal recovery, highlight short-term approach   New research ..

SureCloud Adds Continuous Monitoring Capabilities to Enable Proactive Governance, Risk, and Compliance

SureCloud Adds Continuous Monitoring Capabilities to Enable Proactive Governance, Risk, and Compliance

SureCloud adds continuous monitoring to its cloud-based SaaS GRC solutions to provide customers with more real-time assurance that the..

Stellantis makes 30 billion euro wager on electric vehicle market

Stellantis makes 30 billion euro wager on electric vehicle market

By Giulio Piovaccari and Ben Klayman MILAN/DETROIT (Reuters) -Stellantis, the world’s No. 4 automaker, said on Thursday it plans..

Indian billionaires face off in race to solar domination

Indian billionaires face off in race to solar domination

By Sudarshan Varadhan and Nidhi Verma CHENNAI (Reuters) – Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani’s $10 billion entry into renewable e..

The fight by Microsoft and Amazon for the Pentagon’s cloud contract

The fight by Microsoft and Amazon for the Pentagon’s cloud contract

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Defense Department dealt a blow to Microsoft Corp on Tuesday when the Pentagon announced it was ..

Contour launches trade finance innovation lab in Singapore

Contour launches trade finance innovation lab in Singapore

Future of Finance Lab will further develop Contour’s product offering and create new standards for global trade 1st July 2021, Singa..

50% of Companies Have Failed or Are Not Compliant with Payment Transactions Security Standard, Poll Finds

50% of Companies Have Failed or Are Not Compliant with Payment Transactions Security Standard, Poll Finds

Struggling to keep pace with evolving security landscape London, UK, 30 June 2021 – According to a recent poll by SentryBay, th..

Acquisition creates a UK & Global leader to help organisations win in the Digital Revolution

Acquisition creates a UK & Global leader to help organisations win in the Digital Revolution

QA, owned by CVC Capital Partners VI, today announced the acquisition of Circus Street, a global leader in providing commercial digita..

Sydney Airport gets $16.7 billion buyout bid as investors take longer-term view on travel

Sydney Airport gets $16.7 billion buyout bid as investors take longer-term view on travel

By Jamie Freed and Scott Murdoch SYDNEY (Reuters) -A group of infrastructure investors has proposed one of Australia’s biggest-e..

U.S. job growth picks up in June; unemployment rate rises to 5.9%

U.S. job growth picks up in June; unemployment rate rises to 5.9%

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. job growth accelerated in June as companies, desperate to boost production and ser..

Markforged Announces the Metal X Gen 2, Next Day Metal, and the X7 Field Edition

Markforged Announces the Metal X Gen 2, Next Day Metal, and the X7 Field Edition

New printers and software updates to The Digital Forge allow manufacturers to overcome challenges more quickly and easily than before ..

Covid-19 Makes the Case for Technology and Automation for Business Development in Professional Services

Covid-19 Makes the Case for Technology and Automation for Business Development in Professional Services

By Pieter Looijenga, Account Manager at LexisNexis InterAction No industry has been invulnerable to the pandemic and the ..

How to maintain physical and mental health while working from home

How to maintain physical and mental health while working from home

By: Lee Biggins, CEO and Founder of CV-Library. There is no doubt that COVID-19 has posed a significant risk to both our physical and ..

Here’s why some university students complied with lockdown rules and others didn’t

Here’s why some university students complied with lockdown rules and others didn’t

By studying the behaviour of nearly 7,000 university students across seven European countries during COVID lockdowns, researchers from..

Cardlay builds cloud solution integrated with Concur® Expense to help banks deliver commercial payment management capabilities

Cardlay builds cloud solution integrated with Concur® Expense to help banks deliver commercial payment management capabilities

Solution to help banks’ corporate clients by delivering easy, time-saving, and secure card management Copenhagen, July 1st, 2021: Card..

How real-time data innovation is driving up customer experience in fintech

How real-time data innovation is driving up customer experience in fintech

Geoff Clark, General Manager EMEA, Aerospike The attention span of individuals and organisations is reducing. Time is comp..

Unpaid overtime soars since advent of COVID-19: UK employees working £4.2 billion in free labour every week

Unpaid overtime soars since advent of COVID-19: UK employees working £4.2 billion in free labour every week

UK workers giving away almost 8 hours per week for free on average to employers Essential workers putting in nearly 9 unpaid hours per..

Analysis-U.S. companies spend billions on stay-at-home tech, boding ill for office properties

Analysis-U.S. companies spend billions on stay-at-home tech, boding ill for office properties

By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) – As the U.S. economy reopens, ramped-up corporate spending on video systems and plans to inc..

The importance of wellbeing at work

The importance of wellbeing at work

By: Simon Ellson– expert business coach at ActionCOACH West Herts For the past 18 months, many companies have ensured that emplo..

Internet Marketing: Mobile Optimisation

Internet Marketing: Mobile Optimisation

By: Dan Frydman, Managing Director Inigo Media Ltd Any internet marketing strategy is going to point users to your website.  Over the ..

Bounce Back Loans: what to do if you can’t repay?

Bounce Back Loans: what to do if you can’t repay?

John Bell is Director of licensed Insolvency Practitioners Clarke Bell It has been a turbulent and challenging time for thousands of b..

Why corporates must beware of using cryptocurrency

Why corporates must beware of using cryptocurrency

Kate Gee is a Senior Associate at Signature Litigation. Digital finance has been developing at speed over the last ten years, but legi..

QA and India-based Aspire For Her deliver coding workshop for more than 270 women of all ages

QA and India-based Aspire For Her deliver coding workshop for more than 270 women of all ages

QA, the UK’s leading tech skills and talent provider, delivered its first joint coding workshop with India-based social start-up Aspir..

How to Spot Fintech Startup Companies

How to Spot Fintech Startup Companies

Throughout mid-2021, fintech startups worldwide will scoop up a staggering $34.5 Billion in capital. Many of the biggest and most succ..