The government has been urged to make four key changes in the March Budget to encourage SMEs to make long-term investment plans for growth by Funding Options, the online business finance supermarket. Theresa May has often linked investment in business technology to Britain’s long standing productivity problem, and Funding Options says that the Chancellor can
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SMEs fail to receive benefits of sterling depreciation post Brexit
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The number of small businesses planning to expand their UK customer base has risen in the last year, from 42 per cent to 51 per cent, despite the post-Brexit fall in sterling making it cheaper for businesses to export internationally, reveals research by Moore Stephens. Moore Stephens, in their annual survey of owner managed businesses,
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Is AI capable of being a moral compass? Facebook’s anti-terror AI dreams are fantasy
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Mark Zuckerberg recently published a manifesto for Facebook, Building Global Community, outlining the company’s ambitions for the future. What is clear from the piece are Facebook’s ambitions as a social media platform, and brings to light some of the challenges it is confronted with in order to develop secure, informed and open communities. Zuckerberg touches
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Is AI capable of being a moral compass? Facebook’s anti-terror AI dreams are fantasy
by Ben Lobel • • 0 Comments
Mark Zuckerberg recently published a manifesto for Facebook, Building Global Community, outlining the company’s ambitions for the future. What is clear from the piece are Facebook’s ambitions as a social media platform, and brings to light some of the challenges it is confronted with in order to develop secure, informed and open communities. Zuckerberg touches
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CMI calls for greater diversity and gender parity in apprenticeships
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Degree-level apprenticeships will be key to filling ‘missing middle’ of women in management, with 1.5 million more needed by 2024 to achieve gender parity. At the start of National Apprenticeship 2017, the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) is calling on employers to start higher-level apprentices as a route to promoting gender diversity in their workforces. CMI’s
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CMI calls for greater diversity and gender parity in apprenticeships
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Degree-level apprenticeships will be key to filling ‘missing middle’ of women in management, with 1.5 million more needed by 2024 to achieve gender parity. At the start of National Apprenticeship 2017, the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) is calling on employers to start higher-level apprentices as a route to promoting gender diversity in their workforces. CMI’s
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Six tactics to get more clients for your start-up social media agency
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So, you’ve decided to quit your day job to get your very own social media agency off the ground. Congratulations! The road ahead is going to be a challenging one, but at the same time extremely rewarding. With so many powerful social media management tools available to help you make a success of it, there
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Falling consumer spending and high inflation slowing UK economy
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A fall in consumer spending and high inflation is slowing growth in the UK economy, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisers BDO LLP. The latest report suggests that rising inflation, coupled with stagnating wage growth, is causing a sharp slowdown in consumer spending, leaving the UK economy in need
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Six tactics to get more clients for your start-up social media agency
by Ben Lobel • • 0 Comments
So, you’ve decided to quit your day job to get your very own social media agency off the ground. Congratulations! The road ahead is going to be a challenging one, but at the same time extremely rewarding. With so many powerful social media management tools available to help you make a success of it, there
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Falling consumer spending and high inflation slowing UK economy
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A fall in consumer spending and high inflation is slowing growth in the UK economy, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisers BDO LLP. The latest report suggests that rising inflation, coupled with stagnating wage growth, is causing a sharp slowdown in consumer spending, leaving the UK economy in need
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