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Brexit prompts relocation of group content division to Ireland 1 min read

Brexit prompts relocation of group content division to Ireland

Adiantku 6 days ago

International media group Capital Business Media has relocated its UK content marketing and SEO division to Ireland in response to the UK’s exit from the EU on January 1^st.

The group, owners of the Business Matters magazine and this website, which also has offices in London and New York, will now deal with all client content marketing and SEO needs through a new Irish company, Inscriptio.

The decision to relocate the division to Ireland was made to ensure that there are no compliance and GDPR issues in line with the UK now not being covered by EU Data Protection and GDPR laws.

As part of the new trade deal, the EU did agree to delay data transfer restrictions for at least another four months. This enables personal data to flow freely from the European Economic Area (EEA) to the UK.

However, at the end of this four-month window, … Read the rest

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Apple and Google put conservative social network Parler on notice for violent posts 1 min read

Apple and Google put conservative social network Parler on notice for violent posts

Adiantku 6 days ago

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Parler, a social media haven for Trump supporters, has been awash in violent rhetoric since the U.S. Capitol mayhem on Wednesday. Some users have lauded the rioters as “patriots,” and suggesting that the “war” isn’t over.

On Friday,Apple threatened to boot the social network from its App Store within 24 hours if it doesn’t clean up its service. Meanwhile, Google suspended Parler from its Google Play app store, saying it won’t reinstate the service until the violent comments are removed.

Parler’s traffic rose rapidly last year after Twitter and Facebook started more aggressively labeling and removing posts because of misinformation, discrimination, and incitement to violence. As a result, Trump supporters, including high-profile conservatives like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Fox News talk show host Sean Hannity, and conservative … Read the rest

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Meeting Filipinos’ financial needs during the pandemic 1 min read

Meeting Filipinos’ financial needs during the pandemic

Adiantku 1 week ago

Beyond cashless payments and transactions, GCash widens access to various financial services

From taking its initial steps, the adoption of cashless payments and transactions has taken full speed due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Now, as more consumers use digital financial services to transact safely and efficiently, GCash has taken the lead to bring in more Filipinos towards the benefits and conveniences of going cashless.

During an online forum in the World Fintech Festival Martha Sazon, president and chief executive officer of Mynt, the operator of GCash and chairman of the EMoney Association of the Philippines, shared that this year saw the financial service getting closer to realizing its vision of ‘finance for all’.

“People who have never thought of using cashless payments before suddenly [learned to use it], resulting in massive registrations. In response, we empowered them to transact using their mobile [to] pay for essentials and … Read the rest

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Stationery chain Paperchase on brink of administration 1 min read

Stationery chain Paperchase on brink of administration

Adiantku 1 week ago

Stationery chain Paperchase is on the brink of administration amid struggling sales.

The high street chain said it has filed a notice to appoint administrators.

Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers will run the process, Paperchase said.

The company, which has some 127 sites and about 1,500 employees, said coronavirus restrictions had put an “unbearable strain” on the business.

November’s lockdown came at a critical time for Paperchase, which is not classed as essential retail and therefore had to close its stores.

About 40 per cent of the firm’s annual sales are made in the Christmas period between November and December, according to the firm.

A spokesperson for Paperchase said: “The cumulative effects of lockdown one, lockdown two – at the start of the Christmas shopping period – and now the current restrictions, have put unbearable strain on retail businesses across the country.”

It launched a company voluntary arrangement in March 2019 in … Read the rest

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Boeing to pay $2.5 billion to settle 737 Max fraud charge 1 min read

Boeing to pay $2.5 billion to settle 737 Max fraud charge

Adiantku 1 week ago

Boeing Co. agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle criminal charges that it defrauded the U.S. government by concealing information about the ill-fated 737 Max that was involved in two fatal crashes.

The U.S. planemaker entered into a deferred prosecution agreement in the Northern District of Texas on Thursday, the Justice Department said in a press release.

“The tragic crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 exposed fraudulent and deceptive conduct by employees of one of the world’s leading commercial airplane manufacturers,” Acting Assistant Attorney General David P. Burns of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division said in a statement.

Boeing shares fell less than 1% to $211.26 after the close of regular trading in New York.

A design flaw in the Max helped lead to the two crashes within about five months in 2018 and 2019, killing 346 people. Several investigative reports have found that the … Read the rest

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Scaling roofs and mountains, students battle to take online classes 1 min read

Scaling roofs and mountains, students battle to take online classes

Adiantku 1 week ago

The shift to online classes, self-learning modules, and television and radio programs has proven extremely challenging in a country of 108 million where less than a fifth of households have Internet access and many lack mobile devices. Image via PhilStar

Since the pandemic forced him into remote learning, 10-year-old Jhay Ar Calma has often had to climb on to the corrugated iron roof of his home in a poor neighborhood of Manila to get Internet service.

Up on the roof, he sits on a broken plastic basin and hopes there’ll be a signal strong enough for his government-issued device.

“Sometimes we change the SIM card to a different provider so he doesn’t have to study on the roof, but there’s rarely enough money to spare for that,” Mr. Calma’s mother Jonalyn Parulan told Reuters.

Hopes for a return to classrooms this month have been dashed after President Rodrigo R. Duterte … Read the rest

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British Gas staff start five-day strike over pay and conditions 1 min read

British Gas staff start five-day strike over pay and conditions

Adiantku 1 week ago

British Gas engineers will launch a five-day strike from Thursday in a dispute over pay and conditions.

Thousands of staff could walk out in response to an attempt by the firm to push through pay cuts by threatening to fire workers, union GMB has said.

It accused Centrica, which owns British Gas, of provoking the strike, which it said would cause “massive disruption”.

Centrica said it would prioritise vulnerable households and emergencies during the walkout.

In a statement, GMB national secretary Justin Bowden said the actions of British Gas had “tarnished” its reputation.

“The use of fire and rehire threats has been condemned across the political spectrum and caused huge anger among this dedicated workforce,” he said.

He also suggested that the strike would cause “massive disruption to customers in the depths of winter”.

A Centrica spokeswoman said: “We’ve done everything we can with the GMB to avoid industrial action.… Read the rest

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2 U-turns in 2 days: Why the NYSE finally decided to delist 3 Chinese companies 1 min read

2 U-turns in 2 days: Why the NYSE finally decided to delist 3 Chinese companies

Adiantku 1 week ago

One day after U-turning on its late-December decision to delist three Chinese telecom companies from its exchange, the New York Stock Exchange U-turned again on Wednesday and announced it would, after all, delist the three companies.

“If you are confused, so am I and it seems like the dying days of the Trump Administration will feature more last shots at China, like the Alipay ban yesterday,” Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at Oanda, said in a note, referring to a Trump executive order that banned U.S. transactions with eight digital Chinese payment platforms, including Ant Group’s Alipay.

Shares in the Chinese telecoms—China Mobile, China Unicom Hong Kong and China Telecom—were dragged along for the ride, plunging as much as 5% on Monday, regaining lost ground on Tuesday, and falling again Wednesday. Trading in the three companies in the U.S. will be halted as of Jan. 11.

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Video-on-demand subscriptions to reach two billion by 2025 1 min read

Video-on-demand subscriptions to reach two billion by 2025

Adiantku 1 week ago

Traditional broadcasters and hybrid monetization to drive growth

There will be nearly two billion active global on-demand video service subscriptions by 2025—a 65% increase over the end of 2020—according to a report released this January by Juniper Research, an analyst house specializing in digital technology market research.

Driving this growth are traditional broadcasters who foray into streaming services to extend their reach and compete with online video players such as Amazon Prime Video.

Increased competition is also driving innovation of over-the-top (OTT) monetization models. An OTT is a streaming media service offered directly to viewers via the Internet. Traditional monetization models include TVoD/PPV (Transactional Video on Demand/Pay-Per-View) or SVoD (Subscription Video on Demand). Viewers either paid a one-time fee to watch, download, or rent content in Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, and Google Play, or monthly subscriptions with streaming service providers like Netflix.

In the Philippines, revenue in the … Read the rest

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UK new car registrations in 2020 sink to 30-year low 1 min read

UK new car registrations in 2020 sink to 30-year low

Adiantku 1 week ago

New car registrations fell to their lowest level in nearly three decades last year, according to preliminary figures from the industry’s trade body.

It was also the biggest one-year fall since World War Two, when factories were being turned over to military production, the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders said.

About 1.63 million new cars were registered in 2020, compared with 2.3 million in 2019 – a decline of 29%.

It was the lowest total since 1992.

The bulk of the lost sales occurred during the first lockdown in the Spring, when showrooms were forced to close, and factories shut down.

“We lost half a million units from March, April, May – and we never recovered them,” said the SMMT’s chief executive, Mike Hawes.

The restrictions introduced later in the year were less damaging, largely because dealers were able to sell cars remotely, using ‘click and collect’ services.

That … Read the rest

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Business strategy

Brexit prompts relocation of group content division to Ireland

International media group Capital Business Media has relocated its UK content marketing and SEO division to Ireland in response to the UK’s exit from the EU on January 1^st.

Apple and Google put conservative social network Parler on notice for violent posts

Meeting Filipinos’ financial needs during the pandemic

Beyond cashless payments and transactions, GCash widens access to various financial services

Stationery chain Paperchase on brink of administration

Stationery chain Paperchase is on the brink of administration amid struggling sales.

Boeing to pay $2.5 billion to settle 737 Max fraud charge

Scaling roofs and mountains, students battle to take online classes

British Gas staff start five-day strike over pay and conditions

British Gas engineers will launch a five-day strike from Thursday in a dispute over pay and conditions.

2 U-turns in 2 days: Why the NYSE finally decided to delist 3 Chinese companies

Video-on-demand subscriptions to reach two billion by 2025

Traditional broadcasters and hybrid monetization to drive growth

UK new car registrations in 2020 sink to 30-year low

New car registrations fell to their lowest level in nearly three decades last year, according to preliminary figures from the industry’s trade body.

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Stationery chain Paperchase is on the brink of administration amid struggling sales.

British Gas engineers will launch a five-day strike from Thursday in a dispute over pay and conditions.

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International media group Capital Business Media has relocated its UK content marketing and SEO division to Ireland in response to the UK’s exit from the EU on January 1^st.