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Respective shareholders have filed three lawsuits against Facebook, Qualcomm and Oracle, claiming the firms' executives are doing little to make their boards more diverse, despite public pledges to do so.
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Nick Finegold
17.08.2020
As the digital revolution displaces long-established norms around education, career paths and working life, how can we identify and teach the skills most needed in the future? Simon Riley, MakerClub Founder and CEO, outlines how we can, and must, develop lifelong, relevant learning.
13.08.2020
In the aftermath of reports on conditions in Boohoo's supply chain, asset managers with sustainable funds should stop clinging to pseudo-scientific ESG scoring systems in the face of common sense.
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Nick Finegold
10.08.2020
Fashiontech expert BrandLab creates unique VR showrooms for fashion buyers. They saw their profits skyrocket by 500% between May and June during COVID-19.
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Audrey Langevin
10.08.2020
Giles Corbett and his brother Julian co-founded Ksubaka initially as a new way for brands to advertise to shoppers in stores at mass scale. But working with retailers, they came to understand the need to improve the in-store experience and so shifted their focus to help physical retailers revitalise by providing in-store digital interface products and services.
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Giles Corbett
05.08.2020
MIT’s Alex Pentland speaks to David Lee of the DDI about the importance of ‘neighbourhood data’ in tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges – and why we need data unions.
30.07.2020
Flexible business school Jolt offers courses run by the likes of Google, Netflix and Tesla execs and has now launched its most disruptive, most exciting UK course to date. Switch is a unique, live, immersive bootcamp that retrains people to enter the highly in-demand world of tech in just a month.
28.07.2020
Apple has pledged to expand its current carbon neutrality beyond its global corporate operations to the entire business, including the manufacturing supply chain, by 2030. The pledge covers all Apple products, as well as the energy used to manufacture and charge them.
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Nick Finegold
27.07.2020
Every week, Maddyness brings you MaddyCrowd revealing our selection of projects available on crowdfunding platforms. Here's this week's selection.
25.07.2020
GovTech venture firm PUBLIC has announced its latest GovStart programme - the only UK accelerator dedicated to helping startups use their products to drive transformation and improve the delivery of public services.
24.07.2020
“In tough times, telehealth is just what the doctor ordered”. Thus read a headline The Times ran with in 2012, in reference to growing waiting times in the NHS, and the demand for digitalisation to alleviate some of the strain.
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Simon Lovick
23.07.2020
The in-app meditation feature will provide Snapchatters with expert resources related to emotional and physical wellbeing while offering daily meditations and tools to help young users check-in with their friends and stay healthy.
23.07.2020
One way in which brands have overcome and utilised the lockdown restrictions is with Augmented Reality (AR) campaigns, providing consumers with innovative, engaging experiences, and involving them in their narrative in a way that was not previously possible. David Ripert CEO of Poplar, a leading 3D and AR creative platform, as well as President of the AR & VR Association, has created a list of his top ten AR campaigns in response to COVID-19.
21.07.2020
The environmental impact of e-commerce is facing renewed scrutiny with the proportion of shopping done online rocketing during COVID-19-imposed lockdowns.
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Nick Finegold
13.07.2020
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