Climate change poses pandemic threat by accelerating animal virus spread, study warns
Climate change will force wild mammals to relocate to new habitats, which could increase the spread of viruses between animal…
Healthcare joins leading pack of the Americas’ high-growth companies
Covid-19 threatened to become an extinction-level event for many small and growing companies. Governments scrambled to provide support and businesses…
Calgary start-ups show energy is not the only game in town
Drive towards downtown Calgary from its impressive international airport and the foundations of the local economy are clear. “Be part…
Birgit Troy: the tech start-up scene proves hard to resist
Birgit Troy learns to thrive in fast-paced environments while training to be a chef in her late teens. She intended…
Unilever raises prices by 8% and warns inflation will accelerate
Unilever raised its prices by more than 8 per cent in the first quarter, cutting into the volume of products…
Logic threatens to take a back seat to revenge on France’s far right
It barely took half an hour to gravely wound the chances of an alliance on France’s far right that could…
Why the UK joined the race to woo the crypto industry
Bitstamp launched its first effort to set up a London headquarters in 2013. The fledgling Slovenian cryptocurrency exchange was seeking…
Sainsbury’s warns on profits amid ‘significant external pressures’
J Sainsbury has said it expects underlying profit in the current year to be below analyst forecasts amid “significant external…
UK launches post-Brexit shake-up of insurance rules
Rishi Sunak, UK chancellor, has launched a consultation on radically changing the rules governing insurance companies, with the aim of…
The miracle medicines of a playboy trader and his crypto banker friend
Remember Aziz McMahon? He’s the guy who quit Goldman Sachs in May 2021 after reportedly becoming a millionaire dogecoin. McMahon…