Robots: Stealing Our Jobs or Solving Labour Shortages?
By: The Guardian October 2, 2020 As the coronavirus pandemic enveloped the world last year, businesses increasingly turned to automation in order to address rapidly changing conditions. Floor-cleaning and microbe-zapping disinfecting robots were introduced in hospitals, supermarkets and other environments. Some enterprises found that, given the new emphasis on hygiene and social distancing, robotic […]
Voters Want Congress to Focus on National Security, Jobs – Not Breaking Up Tech Companies
By: American Edge Project September 15, 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new survey released today by Ipsos in partnership with the American Edge Project (AEP) shows that voters in frontline districts want their elected officials to focus on issues of national security, jobs, and health care as opposed to breaking up tech companies. The poll, […]
Chinese President Vows to ‘Adjust Excessive Incomes’ of Super Rich
By: The Guardian August 18, 2021 China’s president has vowed to “adjust excessive incomes” in a warning to the country’s super-rich that the state plans to redistribute wealth to tackle widening inequality. According to reports in state media, Xi Jinping told officials at a meeting of the Chinese Communist party’s central financial and economic affairs […]
How New Biden Rules Could Make It Easier To Buy Hearing Aids Or Fix Your Phone
By: NPR July 9, 2021 President Biden unveiled a new plan on Friday taking aim at powerful industries where a handful of players have so much market clout that they can drive up prices, depress wages and make it hard for small companies to break in. “We know we’ve got a problem, a […]
NATO Launches €1bn Fund to Invest in War Startups
By: Sifted June 23, 2021 NATO is planning to harness the knowhow of startups to develop its next generation of war machines. The transatlantic defence alliance has announced that it is to launch a startup accelerator programme and a €1bn investment fund focused on deeptech startups. The disruptive technologies that NATO is interested […]
Making Digital Ethics a Priority for Organizations
By: CXOtoday.com June 18, 2021 Disruptive technologies offer tremendous opportunity for businesses to become smarter, more flexible, and more responsive. But people often fail to understand the ramifications of their usage, running into bigger risks to businesses. It is then that the question of digital ethics comes into the picture. Let’s say, a […]
No One is Policing Corporate America, and White-Collar Crime is on The Rise. What Comes Next Could be a Full-Scale Financial Meltdown
By: Business Insider June 6, 2021 The coronavirus pandemic hit the Cheesecake Factory hard. Like millions of restaurants, the company watched as most of its business disappeared overnight. By April 2020 the chain — with over 220 restaurants and 46,000 employees — was near death. The company was losing $6 million a week with just 16 […]
Low-Skill Workers Aren’t a Problem to Be Fixed
By: The Atlantic April 23, 2021 Recently, I was mesmerized by a prep cook. At a strip-mall Korean restaurant, I caught a glimpse of the kitchen and stood dumbfounded for a few minutes, watching a guy slicing garnishes, expending half the energy I would if I were doing the same at home and at […]
UK Policies On Tackling Runaway CEO Pay Have Backfired, Says Vince Cable
By: The Guardian April 7, 2021 Vince Cable has said government policies aimed at tackling the vast pay gap between chief executives and their staff do not address the root cause of the issue and in some cases may have made the problem worse. The former business secretary said measures to increase the transparency of […]