The cult of cute: The strange drama of corporate mascots April 21, 2026 While they remind us of our childhoods, mascots are as much a part of corporate culture as ever. Simon Coates asks why Last winter the language learning app Duolingo announced the death of its cartoon mascot, Duo the Owl. Duo had died, they said, after being hit by a car while he was waiting for [...]
I had 261,305 unread emails: What I learned from my Inbox Zero experiment April 21, 2026 After hitting over a quarter of a million unopened emails, Anna Moloney decided it was time to act. But can Inbox Zero actually bring peace?
Erste Group Offers Tailored Financing Solutions Across Countries Using FICO AI April 20, 2026 Leading financial services provider in Central and Eastern Europe uses AI-powered decision optimization across products and areas from lending to collections
Britain’s Potemkin economy April 20, 2026 The compliance industrial complex means vast swathes of the economy – from HR to ESG to EDI – are entirely dependent on the state, says Elliot Keck If the UK was an American state we would be the poorest, according to new research from the Institute of Economic Affairs. How did we get here? Surely [...]
LR Launches New Generation in the “Beauty-Food” Segment April 20, 2026 Ahlen company further develops its 5in1 Shots
Re: Shareholder Proposals to MIZUHO FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. (TOKYO:8411) and ORIENT CORPORATION (TOKYO:8585), and Launch of the Campaign Website April 20, 2026 Strategic Capital, Inc.: To Whom It May Concern Strategic Capital, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “Strategic Capital”) is under a discretionary investment contract with INTERTRUST TRUSTEES (CAYMAN) LIMITED SOLELY IN ITS CAPACITY AS TRUSTEE OF JAPAN-UP (hereinafter referred to as the “Fund”) and the Fund and Strategic Capital (hereinafter referred to as “we”) have continuously [...]
The UK has earned Japan’s respect – let’s use it to build our economy April 20, 2026 Japan holds a deep respect for the UK and is eager to strengthen our relationship further, writes Chris Hayward fresh back from Osaka.
UK bets on East London hub to anchor next phase of innovation April 19, 2026 The UK’s push to build a more joined-up innovation economy is increasingly being anchored in east London, where Here East has turned into one of the country’s largest multi-sector tech campuses. Set within the former Olympic press and broadcast centre in Stratford, the 1.2m sq ft site aims to bring various universities, startups, corporates and [...]
‘Relentless pressures’: More hospitality firms forced to shut even before Iran war April 17, 2026 The rate of corporate collapse in hospitality surged in February in signs the sector was struggling to stay afloat even before the Iran war brought further cost pressures. The number of accommodation and food service firms declaring insolvency jumped by 22 per cent to 270 in February, according to government data. This acceleration of the crisis [...]
Bank of England’s Breeden warns Iran war could set off bond and private credit crisis April 17, 2026 The energy crisis set off by Donald Trump’s war in Iran has made a financial crash more likely, according to the Bank of England’s financial stability chief, who warned that private credit, sky-high sovereign debt and stock market exuberance posed salient threats to the global economy. Sarah Breeden, the central bank’s deputy governor for financial [...]