South Africa’s governing African National Congress is intent on turning itself around and addressing voter disillusionment over poor government services and high levels of crime, poverty and unemployment, President Cyril Ramaphosa said. S’thembile Cele, Khuleko Siwele
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‘Certainly a disappointment’: Omnicom CFO’s verdict on losing PepsiCo to Publicis
By Seb Joseph • September 10, 2026 • Ivy Liu Omnicom’s CFO is still trying to get his head around what went wrong. It’s been a little over a week since the holdco lost one of its longest running clients to Publicis. He called the loss “disappointing” and “unfortunate.” Now, he and the rest of
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Nationwide consolidates 19 data stores to one in the cloud
Building society creates a single company-wide data platform using Microsoft cloud technology By Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA Published: 10 Sep 2026 16:00 Nationwide Building Society has completed a project to cut the number of data stores it uses from 19 to one, using Microsoft technology as part of its integration of
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This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering
A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Scientists have now spent half a century exploring the possibility that we could counteract climate change by releasing
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‘Certainly a disappointment’: Omnicom CFO’s verdict on losing PepsiCo to Publicis
By Seb Joseph • September 10, 2026 • Ivy Liu Omnicom’s CFO is still trying to get his head around what went wrong. It’s been a little over a week since the holdco lost one of its longest running clients to Publicis. He called the loss “disappointing” and “unfortunate.” Now, he and the rest of
consolidates
Nationwide consolidates 19 data stores to one in the cloud
Building society creates a single company-wide data platform using Microsoft cloud technology By Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA Published: 10 Sep 2026 16:00 Nationwide Building Society has completed a project to cut the number of data stores it uses from 19 to one, using Microsoft technology as part of its integration of
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This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering
A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Scientists have now spent half a century exploring the possibility that we could counteract climate change by releasing
What small business owners say they’d do differently, in hindsight
Working 60+ hours a week makes owners twelve times more likely to say their business is hurting their personal life. Australian small business owners are working through illness, skipping holidays and struggling to step away from their businesses, according to new research from insurer BizCover. The survey of 1,500 BizCover small business customers found more
Bright young business brains bring ideas to life
Friday 17 July, 2026 Young Cumbrian entrepreneurs showed off their innovative business ideas, from AI virtual assistants to African food, at two celebration events this week. Fifteen young people from Furness and West Cumbria aged 14 to 25 were selected to take part in the Positive Enterprise programme back in January...
No, no, no — business travel is not dead. It’s still moving, and rather well at that
Par Bruno COURTIN Published on 7 Aug 2026 - Updated on 7 Aug 2026 3 min reading time According to forecasts from GBTA, the world's leading organisation representing business travel stakeholders, global business travel spending is set to hit a record $1.71 trillion in 2026, while the number of trips is expected to reach 1.84