VAR in our time: A bluffer’s guide to how video assistant referees will and won’t be used in the Premier League August 8, 2019 A quiet business estate built on the site of a former rubbish tip in the furthermost fringes of west London could hardly feel more removed from the hustle, bustle and stardust of Premier League football. But it is here, at Stockley Park in Harlington, where the outcome of a new top-flight season will be shaped [...]
‘Let us charge more for energy’, companies urge as they are forced to bail out a string of small suppliers February 19, 2019 The government must let energy suppliers charge more as they are left picking up the pieces from a string of failed rivals, two major players have said. Big Six energy firm Eon and Britain's largest challenger Ovo today called on the the competition regulator to change the way the price cap for prepayment metres works. They [...]
Defence contractor Cobham reinstates dividend as recovery from 2017 rights issue continues March 7, 2019 Engineering firm Cobham has announced plans to reinstate a progressive dividend after it shored up its balance sheet and settled a dispute with aerospace giant Boeing. The FTSE 250 defence and engineering group forecast more progress in 2019, expecting strong demand for its products in markets such as the US, but tightening budgets would place [...]
Fed up with bureaucracy? Might be time to reform your meetings March 21, 2019 Every organisation is either struggling with bureaucracy or terrified of becoming one as they grow. But when companies reach a certain size, it’s not uncommon for them to have countless policies, practices, and structures in place that have accumulated over time. Business leaders should think of this as an operating system. And just as a [...]
Just what the doctor ordered: The tech that is freeing NHS staff from pagers, landlines and WhatsApp September 10, 2019 When Lydia Yarlott started working as a junior doctor in 2015, she was handed a pager. With this retro piece of technology, she was expected to communicate with her colleagues in the hospital. For anyone unfamiliar with (or too young to know) how a pager works, the device beeps when someone wants to contact you, [...]
Best noise-cancelling headphones 2019: Transform your cacophonous commute into soundless sailing with our pick of the top noise-busting headphones April 16, 2019 Sick of your podcast getting drowned out in Tube tunnels? So are we. If you're tired of turning the volume up to 11 just to hear your music over your surroundings, or just want a decent pair of cans to drown out the outside world, we've picked our favourite noise-cancelling headphones for you to choose between. [...]
UK companies are facing a shifting range of security threats October 2, 2017 The threat level in the UK is severe – and arguably not just in relation to terrorism. Recent incidents have shown that any organisation, regardless of its sector or size, could be adversely affected by a security attack. Whether it is a malicious and indiscriminate ransomware campaign, similar to Petya or WannaCry, or getting caught [...]
Huawei one-ups Samsung with world’s fastest foldable 5G smartphone February 24, 2019 Huawei has stepped up to the plate with a foldable smartphone that is bigger, thinner, and faster than Samsung's model launched earlier this week. The Huawei Mate X features screens on both the front and the rear of the phone that fold outwards to form one larger, eight-inch OLED display. The front and back screens on [...]
A year in YouTube – the marketing lessons to learn from 2018 January 28, 2019 As we begin 2019 in earnest, it is important to reflect on some of the marketing lessons that last year provided. For YouTube, 2018 presented an opportunity for us to demonstrate how we used a combination of human review and machine learning to address some of the challenges that we had with ensuring that ads [...]
Anti-social media: Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark on social media harm after the Christchurch terror attacks April 8, 2019 I Interrupt the former leader of my native New Zealand, Helen Clark, in the middle of a Twitter and Facebook purge. “Social media management” she says, dictating a response to one of the provocateurs or well-wishers. It’s all part of overseeing a social media following of more than 200,000, I’m sure, but especially fitting since [...]