Which cities have the most businesses accepting bitcoin? London, New York, San Francisco among the world’s 11 most bitcoin-friendly cities January 18, 2016 Where in the world can you do most with your bitcoins? London is one of the hotspots for the cryptocurrency, but other than that your best bet is to head to the US. Using data from Coin Map, Crypto Coin News has put together a ranking of the world’s most bitcoin-friendly cities, based on the [...]
How to get staff to do mundane tasks: Taking the time to explain why will pay dividends January 18, 2016 In the digital age, with an always-on mentality, employees are more connected to their work than ever before. And with increasing workloads and mounting time pressures, employers can struggle to encourage their staff to actually get those jobs they deem to be less important done. These jobs can be anything from completing holiday or sick forms, to [...]
Bitcoin guru Mike Hearn declares bitcoin a failure January 15, 2016 One of bitcoin’s most long-standing supporters has lost faith. Mike Hearn, who’s spent five years as a bitcoin developer and enthusiast, has had a very public break up with the digital currency, writing a long blog post on Medium about why it’s now a “failed experiment”. Writing that bitcoin’s failure is a “now inescapable conclusion”, [...]
Losing your star performer at work? Here are four ways you can deal with it January 15, 2016 The rainmaker is clutching a brown envelope and asks for five minutes of your time. Thoughts start racing. Surely it’s not possible? Resigning? No. Maybe? But why would they? This employee gets a great salary, they were promoted last year and you’ve treated them so well. Could they have been dissatisfied with their bonus? Could they [...]
Paypal adds Xapo bitcoin entrepreneur Wences Casares to its board January 14, 2016 Paypal just added fintech and bitcoin entrepreneur Wences Casares to its board. The move marks a big step forward for Paypal’s push into bitcoin, launched in 2014. 41-year-old Casares is founder and chief executive of bitcoin payment firm Xapo, but has previous experience from a number of other fintech ventures. “I am honored to serve [...]
The social impact MBA watershed: What is driving tomorrow’s business leaders? January 14, 2016 Eighty eight per cent of students completing MBAs in the States last year said that social impact issues – from climate change and health disparities to the ethics of big business supply chains – were a priority for them. That’s according to research from Net Impact, a non-profit which works to help students shape their [...]
High morale, high profits: Why happiness benefits your bottom line January 14, 2016 How much does a satisfied workforce improve a company’s results? It’s a tough question. Much to the frustration of human resources departments, the links between happier employees and the competitiveness of a firm are difficult to prove. With Bloomberg publishing its Best Employers UK 2016 list, are those with the highest staff morale – such as [...]
How to make a million – slowly: Lord John Lee’s Isa portfolio has hit £4.5m and now he shares his rules for successful investment January 13, 2016 He made the headlines as the first person to become a millionaire through investing his savings in an Isa in 2003. But the astonishing news now is that Lord John Lee’s Isa portfolio has topped £4.5m in value. So he’s a millionaire four times over, and likely heading towards his fifth. This has come about through [...]
Three tips to achieve your career goals and ambitions in 2016 January 13, 2016 If you're feeling fed up just seven working days into 2016, you aren’t alone. Research by CV-Library found that almost one in three of us return to work in January feeling unhappy about our job. The study, published in December, estimated that 7.7m workers in the UK were considering leaving their post in the new [...]
Comeback currency of the year: Bitcoin beat the dollar by nearly 40 per cent last year to become the best performer of 2015 January 12, 2016 Bitcoin was the world’s best-performing currency in 2015, beating out the US dollar by nearly 40 per cent. The cryptocurrency has been on a roll lately, boosted to hit a 2016 high of $450 by recent turmoil on Chinese stock markets. In afternoon trading, the currency was at $446.31. “Bitcoin is living up to its [...]