Blockchain, the technology behind digital currency bitcoin, makes a splash in insurance to offer a solution to homeowners renting out part of their property March 10, 2016 SafeShare is making digital waves by launching the first blockchain-based insurance solution for the sharing economy on the market. The insurance startup, in partnership with Vrumi, is offering the product, which was created with Z/Yen Group and using open source timestamp service MetroGnomo, to homeowners. Sharing economy firm Vrumi allows homeowners with extra rooms to [...]
Forgotten Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts: Now’s the time to clear your social media cobwebs March 9, 2016 Online social networks now connect 2bn people and millions of businesses across the world. Email, by comparison, cannot keep up. But while we tend to feel comfortable sending sensitive content via email, most social networks are designed to be broadcasting platforms for sharing as much information as you like with friends, acquaintances or just about anyone. [...]
UK companies went on a shopping spree last quarter, as outward mergers and acquisitions deals jumped March 8, 2016 NULL
EU referendum: Low turnout on the vote feared by pressure group as just 16 per cent of public feel informed March 8, 2016 NULL
What does your desk say about you? The five workplace personalities March 8, 2016 What do your colleagues think when they look at your desk? We teamed up with the director of Space Works Consulting Lily Bernheimer to run through the secrets of office desk psychology. Clutterer Cluttered, chaotic, colourful: this is the desk of an extrovert. Extoverts are excitement seekers and get easily bored without stimulation, so they [...]
Why Mario Draghi is in a bind over negative interest rates March 8, 2016 What a difference a few weeks make. Sentiment has improved and fears of imminent recession now appear a touch hasty. But the question of where markets head next still depends on policy-makers’ ability to deliver decisive action. Step forward Mario Draghi, who is expected to tinker with the Eurozone’s financial plumbing this week in the [...]