Business & Finance

Did you know there is such a person as a “removalist”? – and I don’t mean someone who helps you pack up your house and move on. No, a removalist is someone who specializes in cleaning up your internet presence. Your digital footprint can help or harm you in your …

This new advance enables a dramatic increase in energy-producing capacity for every square meter installed. by Nick Szymanowski MIT Scientists Discover New Way to Clean PV Panels Resources of every kind are in high demand. At the same time, numerous ecological overshoot issues cause climate chaos, in turn creating an …

by Rhett A. Butler Founder of Mongabay • Between rising deforestation in the Amazon, new financial and political commitments to reduce deforestation, and growing interest in “nature-based solutions” like conservation and reforestation, 2021 may prove to be a fateful year for the world’s tropical rainforests. • So what should we …

Lucid Motors will begin producing its luxury electric vehicle for customers at its new Arizona factory in early 2021, about three months later than expected due to a slowdown caused by COVID-19. The company, which plans to unveil a production version of the Lucid Air in an online event scheduled for September 9, said construction…

I’m sure the Montreal Auto Show will be livelier this weekend, but without any motorheads around, it sure felt a lot like a museum on the morning of Jan. 16, the day before the annual event’s official opening. The only loud noises came from periodic unveilin…

President Donald Trump’s administration is weighing whether to seek changes to a 1977 law that makes it illegal for U.S. companies to bribe foreign officials. “We are looking at it,” White House Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow said at the White House on Friday…

Facebook Inc. was sued by four potential competitors who accuse it of anticompetitive behaviour and who asked a judge to order Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg to give up control of the social media behemoth. The companies also said if Facebook isn’t …

Boaz Manor, a former Canadian hedge fund manager who served jail time following the collapse of Portus Alternative Asset Management Inc. in 2005, was indicted Friday on fresh criminal charges in the United States in connection with an alleged securities fraud…

This post arrived in my inbox yesterday and as we publish a number of websites using WordPress I was interested in how sophisticated and devious these hack attacks are becoming. Mark Maunder CEO and founder of Wordfence, a cybersecurity plugin for WordPress, comments on the Forbes hack attack and even …

The HR function is as integral to delivering business value and profit as IT, accounting, purchasing and sales. The most valued HR practitioners are tactical practitioners with strong operational roots whose ability to deliver consistent value through the organisation’s employees have earned their place at the core of the leadership …