People find new ways to adapt in Covid times

2020 has been a year no one saw coming. Covid-19 has wrought economic, political and emotional chaos, testing the limits of individuals, families, healthcare systems and whole sectors of societies. Yet, as the ninth annual Looking Further with Ford Trends Report*...

Tech stocks the winners in otherwise bleak 2020

Despite the unprecedented challenges that rocked the year 2020, the S&P 500 closed with an 18,4% gain on a total return basis. According to the research data analyzed and published by Comprar Acciones. Following a 12,5% decline in March 2020, the index recovered...

And the top malware threat in December was …

The Emotet trojan has returned to first place in Check Point Research’s latest Global Three Index for December 2020, impacting 7% of organisations globall. This follows a spam campaign which targeted more than 100 000 users per day during the holiday season. In...

How events in the Capitol affect the US economy

Democrats have completed a sweep of Congress following the double victory in the state of Georgia’s run-off election. Keith Wade, Schroders’ chief economist, discusses what this means for the US economy in the near-term. The disturbing scenes of protestors...

MacBook hit 15,5m shipments in 2020

The global demand for PCs and laptops increased significantly in 2020, with millions of people working from home and practicing distance learning amid the Covid-19 lockdown. As one of the leading brands on the market, Apple MacBook has witnessed a significant jump in...
Water management vital to the success of smart cities

Water management vital to the success of smart cities

Water is the elephant in the room, with cities increasingly and massively dependent on water technology as sea levels rise and for other reasons. The IDTechEx report, “Smart Cities Market 2021-2041: Energy, Food, Water, Materials, Transportation...