At the same time, coal and LNG are among Australia’s biggest exports.Undeterred, Griffith says the path to zero emissions could be done through “electrifying” the household. That is, moving away from natural gas and combustion engines, aided by the rapid take-up of solar power, heat pumps, electric vehicles and batteries.It’s all existing technology, but the…
Hindsight is 20-20, as we all know. Look around and forward vision for 2020 is cloudy at best, be it for geopolitics, economies, businesses or markets. Markets might look great having bounced back (through April from the sharp declines end of 2018 and then since October), due to corporate buybacks, extended monetary-easing across both developed…
NEW YORK, United States — After a two-decade search for the perfect location for its first flagship store in Manhattan, Nordstrom has arrived.The seven-story, 320,000-square-foot women’s store, which opens to the public on Oct. 24, brings some new features to the New York department store scene; shoppers can receive Botox injections and peruse online brands…
General Electric (GE) has decided to freeze its pension plan, removing two of the key features that have come to be associated with retirement savings – secure and guaranteed – for tens of thousands of employees. GE isn’t the first company to pull the plug, but as one of the oldest traditional companies in corporate…
The most powerful man in Hollywood, Robert Iger, is big on timing. This morning was typical. After awakening to an alarm set to 4:15 a.m., the Walt Disney Co mpany’s chairman and CEO spent five minutes getting dressed, washing his face and securing his earbuds before heading to a gym inside the house in Brentwood…
The stock market is on the brink of setting new records and the consumer, which has been propping up the U.S. economy, has the power to make or break that momentum. A couple of key economic indicators that are set to be released this week happen to be a gauge on the strength of the…
Episode Overview The summer is here and it’s a great time for SEOs to sweat out some of the bigger projects on their to-do lists. While families and most eCommerce businesses take a holiday, this is one of the busiest times of the year for technical SEOs. Hear Jeff Preston, News…
The ecommerce industry is booming. People are buying products online more than ever before. Nearly anything you can imagine can be purchased on the Internet and delivered to your doorstep. It’s a great time to be a consumer. But as an entrepreneur, you can leverage this craze by creating your own ecommerce shop. You can…
By Ebunoluwa Sessou Josephine Wawira is a Consultant in Communications and Public Relations and a writer with a focus on African development. She has written opinion articles covering among other topics, e-commerce, travel, hospitality and tourism and is currently the Group PR & Communications Assistant Manager at Jumia Group. Josephine WawiraAccording to Euromonitor, the world’s…
You may or may not know Felix Kjellberg, but if you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ll probably recognize his pseudonym. Kjellberg, popularly known as PewDiePie, remains one of YouTube’s biggest stars with almost 100 million subscribers. And that’s precisely why his latest antics aren’t just in bad taste – they’re altogether reckless. Consider this.…