Developments in international tax important for multinational corporations
Outrage in the press can cause confusion about the process of tax planning. The nuanced relationship between the spirit and the letter of the law, and wider issues such as the conflict between...
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International Trade: Where do the ships sent to unsafe breaking yards come from?
The beaches of Alang in India and Gadani in Pakistan are major worldwide centres of the ship breaking industry. Together with Chittagong in Bangladesh, these breaking yards are also notorious for poor...
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Mapping Global Innovation
Technological innovation, often regarded as ‘the great growling engine of change’, has long been synonymous with powering economic development. Equally, through necessity, industrial growth helps to...
View ArticleBoeing and SpaceX to launch astronauts: Bad news for Virgin Galactic?
The ISS was originally designed and tested to provide an operational lifetime of 15 years; this period passed in November 2013. In January 2014, NASA announced its intention to extend ISS operations...
View ArticleThe open source and graph database revolutions
The Oracle relational database is the world’s most popular enterprise database software and makes up a substantial part of the company’s software and cloud revenue segment. The revenues for this...
View ArticleHolistic intelligence and the limits of Big Data
Big Data has been heralded as a ground-breaking technology that will transform the way that businesses operate. As such, major organizations have been quick to understand and implement Big Data...
View ArticleIntel Corporation ready to take on the IoT after failing in mobile
2015 marked the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, a famous and remarkably accurate prediction made by the co-founder of Intel Corporation about the pace of technological innovation. The prediction stems...
View ArticleDriverless Cars: The coming insurrection
The technology required to produce an autonomous vehicle already exists in specific circumstances. The challenge is to make self-driving cars viable in all locations, all conditions and all situations....
View ArticleHero MotoCorp: Promising rise of future transnational manufacturer
Hero MotoCorp (HMC – formerly Hero Honda Motors), based in India, is one of the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturers and is setting itself up to expand globally following the dissolution of its...
View ArticleApple’s security flaw and ad-blocking decision highlight two key technology...
In quick succession, Apple has been subject to some perfect examples of two key current issues in the technology industry. Firstly, much of the free content on the internet is driven by advertising...
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Top entrepreneurial cities: 21st century UK incorporations
Companies House data demonstrates that more companies have been incorporated in the Greater Manchester region in the 21st Century than anywhere else outside of London. This appears to provide some...
View ArticleBillions of test miles to prove driverless tech
As of April 2016, Google is running 23 converted Lexus SUVs and 34 prototype vehicles in autonomous mode on public roads across Kirkland, Mountain View, Phoenix and Austin in the US. It has driven its...
View ArticleExpectations of rapid MVNO expansion in Middle East
MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) subscription rates are expected to grow rapidly over the next five years in the Middle East region despite the existence of high entry barriers. Firms that can...
View ArticleBrexit skepticism and predicting the unpredictable
In a bizarre confluence of polarized opinions battling amidst the wanton exposition of misinformation by careerist politicians, the UK has voluntarily plunged itself into a prolonged period of economic...
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