With its aim to replenish its ranks with star performers in North America, Australia’s Macquarie Group Ltd shed close to 15 percent of its U.S. investment banking workforce this month, reports Reuters Several other banks are reconsidering their U.S. investment banking strategy and Macquarie Group Ltd’s action comes amidst that environment. For example more than…
Offering areas of new business for specialist companies which have benefited from the use of such technology in smartphones, a tap of a finger could soon suffice to identify credit card shoppers and rail commuters. Having already become the market leader in a crowded sector for supplying such sensors for smartphones, Sweden’s Fingerprint Cards (FPC)…
The device will notify you of the air quality as well as when a change of filter is required. Although some have labeled air purifiers as not smart or powerful, with the exception of a few, the fact of the matter is that air purifiers do remove some of the nastiness however how much of…
An exploit and a customized hardware was used to access Apple’s encrypted content in its iPhone 5c. Giving a new twist to the Apple vs FBI court battle, as per The Washington Post, the previous report of the FBI engaging an Israeli firm to unlock the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone 5c was off the mark. The…
The increased adoption of biometric technology signals its coming dawn. For those who love all things Japanese and travel regularly to the island nation, stocking up on yen and bringing your credit card is so passé. The Japanese government is testing a system that will allow you to use your fingerprints to make purchases at…
The technology is nascent: it can only convert 6.5% of the power it captures. Although rainy conditions are considered adverse to the solar energy industry, researchers from China have harnessed it to be an ally. They have developed a technology for a new kind of solar cell wherein it is coated by an atom-thick graphene…
The raft of headwinds – from concerns over China to a seismic shift in consumer tastes, weighing on luxury brands means the sector may be forced to embrace a new normal, suggest analysts. “The luxury sector and the largest companies within it need to adjust to a new normal,” Luca Solca, head of luxury goods…
Corporate finance and valuation services are fields that seem tough to comprehend and require a special skill where one has to combine complex data with human insight to provide the right solution. At Duff & Phelps, consultants are expected to bring more than this: they must develop a sector-based client insight. When firms put…
A new generation of weapons that are increasingly capable of targeting and attacking without the involvement of people require the maintaining human control over them, says two international arms control groups in a report. An emerging United States military strategy that will count on technology advantages and increasingly depend on weapons systems that blend humans…
Vaccines are kind of an outdated procedure as mutating viruses render them ineffective. Antiviral treatments and vaccines have one inherent seemingly inescapable problem: as viruses evolve and mutate a solution that works today will be totally useless tomorrow. Researchers at DARPA are however convinced that this problem can be solved. In fact they have even…
