Category Archives: Business

01Aug/22

Envestnet Partners with Nickelodeon to Bring the Intelligent Financial Life™ Undersea with SpongeBob SquarePants’ Character Mr. Krabs

August 1, 2022FinanceEnvestnet, Krabs, Mr. Krabs, Nickelodeon, SpongeBob SquarePants, Television in the United States, Television seasons, Television showsadmin

Envestnet is partnering with Nickelodeon to take a closer look at SpongeBob SquarePants’ Mr. Krabs’ imagined finances in their latest omnichannel brand campaign. The new digital interactive campaign features clips of Mr. Krabs’ experiences as a small business owner that serve as entertaining examples of being a proprietor. Envestnet empowers financial advisors to serve as heroes who help their clients live an Intelligent Financial Life™ through its connected financial wellness ecosystem. Continue reading

20Jul/22

OPINION: Meta and hate speech in India

July 20, 2022LegalArticles, Censorship, civil society, Computing, Deborah Brown, Facebook, Frances Haugen, Freedom of speech, Harassment, Hate crime, Hate speech, Human Rights Impact Assessment, Human Rights Watch, India, Jayshree Bajoria, META, Meta Platforms, Moderation system, Social information processing, Social media, Sophie Zhang, Websites, World Wide Webadmin

Deborah Brown and Jayshree Bajoria are senior researchers at Human Rights Watch

Last week, Meta, formerly Facebook, released its first human rights report, which included some snippets from the pending Human Rights Impact Assessment on India. But this was not a preview of the full assessment. Rather, Meta told Human Rights Watch that it does not “have plans to publish anything further on the India HRIA,” an abdication of its commitment to transparency and due diligence.
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19Jul/22

Africans turn to crypto as charity funding dwindles

July 19, 2022FinanceArticles, Benjamin Von Wong, Big Mich, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Byrones Khainga, Casson Trenor, Central African Republic, Continents, Cryptocurrencies, Decentralization, Digital currencies, Geography of Africa, Kenya, Kibera, Mercy Corps Ventures, NAIROBI, Nigeria, Non-fungible token, Roselyne Wanjiru, Scott Onder, South Africaadmin

Fundraising via crypto, NFTs grows amid funding downturn
Advocates say crypto donations faster, easier to access
Challenges include internet, power access and gender gap

By Kagondu Njagi

NAIROBI, July 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A sculpture of a giant tap spewing plastic waste greeted delegates at U.N. environment talks in Kenya earlier this year – a reminder of the urgent need for them to agree a global pact to curb plastic pollution.

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18Jul/22

The Cost of Living Crisis: The Human Impact

July 18, 2022EconomyBangladesh, Cost of living, Economics, Economy, Financial economics, Food prices, Germany, Haiti, India, Inflation, Kenya, Macroeconomics, Price indices, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Zimbabweadmin

People around the world are facing increasing pressures on their day-to-day lives. Food, energy bills and living costs are rocketing as inflation reaches record levels due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and rising global instability.

The Thomson Reuters Foundation has spoken to people living in 18 countries around the world in an attempt to gauge the human impact of the crisis.
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10Jul/22

Battery Swapping: From Two-Wheelers to Trucks, Reports IDTechEx

July 10, 2022TransportCharging, Charging stations, Electric battery, Electric power, Electric vehicles, Electromagnetism, Energy, Rechargeable batteriesche

The conductive fast-charging system as we know it today has drawbacks such as long dwell times, high power demand from the grid, availability and reliability issues, and the need for end-users to deal with heavy cables, dirty connectors, and buggy user interfaces. Battery-swapping is an emerging technology that aims to address all of these shortcomings. Besides easily upgrading battery technology, reducing the purchase price of EVs (by decoupling the cost of the battery from the EV), and massively decreasing charging times, it is also important to note that the battery swapping stations themselves can become independent energy storage facilities with grid-balancing ability. As we electrify the various vehicle segments, can battery swapping be considered a viable recharging strategy for them all? Continue reading

08Jul/22

OPINION: Food crisis promises a global wave of unrest

July 8, 2022Economy2007–08 world food price crisis, Andrew Firmin, Articles, Business economics, Chile, CIVICUS, Contemporary history, Economy, Ecuador, Egypt, food, Food prices, Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing, Impact of the Arab Spring, Iran, Kazakhstan, Late modern period, Pricing, Protest, Quito, Russia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Ukraine, World food price crisische

Andrew Firmin is editor-in-chief at CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, and one of the lead authors of the 2022 State of Civil Society Report.

For the past couple of weeks, mass protests have brought the South American nation of Ecuador to a standstill.
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04Jul/22

Formula for peak performance and staying power of family businesses revealed: Global report

July 4, 2022EconomyArticles, Attachment theory, Business, Business models, Economy, Entrepreneurship, Family business, KPMG, kpmg enterpriseche

Successful family businesses have common characteristics that drive their performance and continuity from one generation to the next, finds a new global report by KPMG Enterprise and the STEP Project Global Consortium. According to the report, three key characteristics help to sustain their success: a strong entrepreneurial orientation across the generations; family connection and attachment to the business; and ambitious next-generation leadership. Continue reading

03Jul/22

Winston & Strawn Offers Travel Reimbursement for Out-of-State Abortion Services

July 3, 2022LegalAbortion, Abortion in Canada, Abortion in the United States, Case law, Judicial activism, Law, Law of the United States, Roe, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court of the United States, United States Supreme Court cases, Wade, Winston & Strawn, WINSTON & STRAWN LLPche

Winston & Strawn LLP announced that the Firm will reimburse travel expenses for personnel who have to travel out-of-state to obtain an abortion.

The Firm initiated this policy following the recent Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. As a result of that decision, the right to an abortion is now determined under state law. Continue reading

03Jul/22

Geneva Financial Produces, Releases Song to Encourage Change in the World

July 3, 2022FinanceAdministrative divisions, Entities, Geneva, Organizations, United Nationsche

Geneva Financial Home Loans (Geneva) announces the release of a professionally produced song, ‘Good Human’, in support of their BE A GOOD HUMAN initiative to inspire change in the world through human action. Continue reading

01Jul/22

GoCardless to acquire open banking platform Nordigen, combining broad open banking connectivity with bank payment expertise

July 1, 2022FinanceArticles, Bank, Economy, Nordigen, Open banking, Paymentche

GoCardless, the global leader in direct bank payments, has announced its plans to acquire Nordigen, the freemium open banking data provider, as it builds on its vision to become the world’s bank payment network. GoCardless will incorporate Nordigen’s next-generation open banking connectivity — offering the widest coverage in Europe, connecting to more than 2,300 banks in 31 countries — into its account-to-account network. Continue reading