FxWirePro: UK economic growth likely to hover around 1.3 pct in 2018
Dec 29, 2017 06:10 am UTC| Commentary Economy Insights & Views
The United Kingdoms economic growth is expected to hover around 1.3 percent during the course of 2018, owing to the downward pressure created by the ongoing uncertainties over the UK-EU Brexit negotiations that have...
Here's what bike-sharing programs need to succeed
Dec 28, 2017 16:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
Bike sharing has become a buzzword in cities from Cape Town to Shanghai to Melbourne. Planners, politicians and media pundits keep touting their benefits: reducing pollution, congestion, travel costs and oil dependence,...
Can you keep your kids safe watching YouTube?
Dec 28, 2017 13:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
In recent weeks parents have been shaken by media reports about upsetting, offensive or crassly commercial videos that children using YouTube and YouTube Kids could be exposed to just by following links from content they...
What psychiatrists have to say about holiday blues
Dec 28, 2017 13:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
This time of the year brings a lot of changes to the usual day-to-day life of hundreds of millions of people: The weather is colder, trees are naked, snowy days become plentiful and friendly critters are less visible...
Like it or loathe it, here's why Apple doesn't need a planning permit for its Fed Square store
Dec 28, 2017 13:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Real Estate
Despite the prominent public role played by Melbournes Federation Square, Apples new flagship store to be built within it wont even require a planning permit. This is thanks to an obscure planning process that planning...
Are you a "cyberloafer"? Why internet procrastination is making life easier for hackers
Dec 28, 2017 13:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The biggest threat to an organisations cyber-security comes from within, according to a growing body of evidence. Employees are frequently putting their companies at risk of hacking by sharing their passwords, using public...
Read this before you go sales shopping: the environmental costs of fast fashion
Dec 28, 2017 13:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business Nature
Its tough to love our clothes and keep wearing them for longer when we are faced with a tempting array of newness on offer in the shops. But before you head out into the January sales for those irresistible deals, spare a...
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