Do incentive travel programmes offer a return on investment or are you just offering a free holiday to employees? Do staff prefer them to a pay rise? Will it add to your bottom line? The answer to all these questions is yes, as long as you pick the best location…
Global Briefing
The Great Transition
There has been a staggering fall in the price of solar and wind power in the last decade, alongside a call for climate action, leading to a rapid expansion of these technologies. Global demand for energy is on the rise, and as consumption increases our dependence on carbon-emitting fossil…
Hypersonic Air Travel Revolution
Europe to Australia in under five hours? Engineers at UK-based Reaction Engines who are working on a system to enable hypersonic air travel say that they have passed a significant development milestone. A key element of their SABRE air-breathing rocket engine – the precooler component – has successfully…
Tech Unicorns Test the Market
Potential investors in tech IPOs this year would be well advised to exercise caution After years of raising money on the private markets, a number of tech companies are diving into the public markets in 2019. We recently had the IPO of ride-hailing service Lyft, which raised more than $2bn,…
New Trustwave Report Underscores Progressing Global Cybersecurity Threats
Comprehensive Analysis of Data Breach Investigations, Internal Threat Intelligence and Security-Based Telemetry Reveals Cybercriminals are Becoming More Methodical and Adaptive Trustwave released the 2019 Trustwave Global Security Report, which reveals the top security threats, breaches by industry and cybercrime trends from 2018. The report is based…
Telecom Liechtenstein (FL1) Protects Geneva Airport Against Electronic Eavesdropping
In order to step up its precautions against cyberattacks and to provide its users with the best possible security for their mobile communications, Geneva Airport shall be secured against the electronic eavesdropping of mobile devices from now by FL1 from its base in Liechtenstein. Specifically, so-called IMSI catchers (fake mobile…