The dilemma most business owners face when trademarking shapes
Increased competition has seen businesses try to gain the upper hand even by trademarking shapes. Many fall flat due to one particular hurdle though, a recent court case pointed out.
UK employees happier to change jobs for small pay rise than European counterparts
UK employees were willing to leave their roles for a ten per cent pay rise, compared to a European average of 12 per cent.
Malta eyes up Brexit opportunities as entrepreneurs look for new residency
As the UK gears up to divorce the EU, many fear they might soon be citizens of nowhere. As a result, citizenship-by-investment programs have experienced an unprecedented uptake – something Malta is capitalising on.
The evolving challenge of expenses for a growing business
In the early days of a business, it is easy to keep track of who’s spending what, but as you scale up expenses becomes an evolving challenge.
Openreach demands higher prices for full fibre broadband
Full fibre is deemed the gold standard for broadband – and one of the reasons it is seen as such is that it removes the speed drop over distance that existing DSL products suffer from. But there may be a slight issue with Openreach’s roll-out announcement.
We’re not lazy slackers, so what are we going to do about low productivity?
A bunch of lazy slackers we definitely are not, but if we are to achieve the levels of economic growth we desperately need in the UK, we are going to have to sort out our historically low productivity problem.