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Davos Digest #4
January 20, 2017
Day three and the finishing line can just about be seen in the distance. The day’s big news was made by Theresa May who, coming hot off the heels of her recent Brexit Speech in which she shocked many in declaring her willingness to walk away from the single market, followed up with another big key note. This time it was all about one simple message: Britain is open for business. AI and automation returned...
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Davos Digest #3
January 19, 2017
Day two of Davos, and the spoils belong to meme-legend Joe Biden who covered a broad range of issues in a valedictory key note. In a not-so-subtle rebuke of Donald Trump, he called on the world’s richest 1% to ‘pull their weight’ in the global economy, attacking Russia for testing the fault lines of the current world order and described Nato as a ‘sacred obligation’. A strong start before most had sipped their first cup...
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TechMunch: Six predictions for tech in 2017
December 21, 2016
Goodbye 2016. And good riddance! Don’t get me wrong, 2016 had some bright spots. There were great moments like the Queen’s Jubilee; Mo Farah winning his fourth Olympic gold medal; Michelle Obama’s powerful pre- election speech on female empowerment; and the Pokemon Go craze. But for many of us, 2016 will be best remembered as the year when the US and Europe took a dramatic right turn. Brexit and the US Presidential election dominated the...
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Is the train slow enough to jump off? When 140 characters aren’t enough anymore
November 16, 2016
It’s lost more than $2bn since its founding, Vine is gone, it’s struggling to rise above the 300 million user mark, it has constant allegations of unchecked racial and misogynistic abuse, it has switched to an algorithmic timeline and it has managed to turnoff potential investors Salesforce and Alphabet. So, are things finally over for Twitter? The short answer is no, the long answer is maybe. Make no mistake, for the time being Twitter is...
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TechMunch: The technology of Formula 1
October 25, 2016
Glenn Simpson takes a look at the technology that continues to drive Formula 1 to be successful and how advances in recent years has maintained the momentum for drivers to keep pushing to be faster. The debate over man vs. car and who makes more of a difference is one that has long been fought, for the sake of all our sanity, I’m only going to focus on one topic, the technology behind what makes...
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Hiding from negative interest rates
August 17, 2016
Simon Anderson reflects on reports of European banks hoarding money to protect themselves from negative interest rates and what that could mean for us... What does the person-in-the street do when they lose faith in banks? They hide money under their mattress. After many years of telling customers to put their money to work, it seems European banks may be considering the same course of action. As rates sink to zero across much of Europe, it...
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What does Brexit mean for Corporate Reporting?
July 11, 2016
Head of Corporate Reporting Nick Rose takes a look at the post-Brexit landscape of Corporate Reporting and any changes that might need to be made. On Friday 24th June, in the aftermath of the Brexit results both the FTSE 350 and FTSE 100 markets reacted with significant drops. While both have now recovered from their dives, the FTSE 100 rebounded from it’s knee jerk reaction to a level higher than where it started the previous week. There...
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Intelligent reporting that delivers smart storytelling
July 1, 2016
Continuing from our first post on what our Corporate Reporting team can do for your annual reports we share more examples of our award winning work. Delivering a vision for the future Our first report for Qatar National Bank needed to build confidence in their success as well as in their ambitious vision to become an MEA icon by 2017 and a global bank by 2030. FHF's approach was to write and design a comprehensive...
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TechMunch: The robotic revolution: dystopia or utopia?
June 22, 2016
TechMunch, our series on all things tech returns with a look at artificial intelligence. Is it friend? Is it foe? Account Executive Aris Erdogdu takes a closer look. Technology is transformative. It has, without a doubt, revolutionised countless industries and forever changed the way businesses are run and lives are led. Today, at the heart of the latest technological revolution is artificial intelligence (AI). Over the last year, there seems to have been a rise...
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Six months in – and what have we learnt?
June 16, 2016
Our CEO Jim Donaldson reflects on the first six months of FleishmanHillard Fishburn and shares what he's learnt. Amazingly it has been six months since the merger that created FleishmanHillard Fishburn, the firm I am so proud to lead. The time has flown by and we have started 2016 very strongly with some great new wins and a brilliant new culture that combines the best of two great firms. As a corporate communications specialist, I...