Australian Syrah Resources Ltd will supply Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company with graphite anode material over an initial four-year period, with an option to buy additional volumes subject to further expansion of Syrah’s plant in Vidalia, Louisiana. The Vidalia facility is planned to process graphite from Mozambique to become the first source of graphite anodes […]
Love him or loathe him, there is no denying that Elon Musk is one of the world’s most influential people. 2021 saw the Tesla CEO crowned Time magazine’s “Person of the Year'' as his electric vehicle company became the most valuable in the world, his space company successfully carried an all-civilian crew to the edge […]
The evolution of remote working has been a topic of conversation throughout the current century, but it is only in the past two years that it has entered the mainstream. While the impact of remote working on businesses and their workforces has been covered extensively during the pandemic, there remains one point that is worth reiterating: […]
At the recent Cop26 meeting in Glasgow the words ‘net zero’ got bounced around a fair whack. Indeed, everywhere it seems people and businesses alike are talking about their plans for greater sustainability, and politicians are promising we’ll be net zero by the time I’ve finally worked out what TikTok is and why I don’t […]
Claire Rychlewski, SVP at EMEA Business at Kinaxis, takes a look at the road to sustainability maturity for the supply chain. Sustainability is a complex and ever-evolving issue that is becoming increasingly sophisticated in the demands it places on companies. Widely accepted as both a moral and business imperative, it has elevated to a board-level […]
According to several media reports, Apple employees were informed of the decision via a memo sent by the company’s chief executive Tim Cook on Wednesday. The memo also noted that each employee, including retail workers, would receive $1,000 to spend on home office equipment, according to NBC News. The memo also encouraged employees to get […]
When The Matrix was released in 1999, cinema audiences were blown away by the spectacular visual effects. The idea of being able to enter a virtual world left fans with many philosophical questions regarding the nature of truth and of the possibility of not knowing that you were inside a computer-simulated reality. Two decades later […]
It wasn’t until the COVID-19 pandemic hit and exposed loopholes in freight forwarding. For example, there was a shortage of personnel for packaging and organising shipments since people were required to work from home. However, it wasn’t all bad. The upside to the pandemic is that the industry became more receptive to these technological advancements […]
Elon Musk has been named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2021, a year that saw Tesla become the most valuable carmaker in the world and Musk's space company SpaceX carry an all-civilian crew to the edge of space. Tesla’s market value rocketed to more than $1 trillion this year, making the electric vehicle […]
The billionaire business magnate shared his thoughts on the metaverse in a year-in-review post published on his personal website. “Within the next two or three years, I predict most virtual meetings will move from 2D camera image grids—which I call the Hollywood Squares model, although I know that probably dates me—to the metaverse, a 3D […]
Phil Keoghan, Chief Executive Officer at Ricoh UK, discusses the importance of sustainability for business operations. Sustainability is one of the biggest areas of focus for business operations, and now is the pivotal moment for companies to address their own green innovations and responsibility to ecological neutrality. According to our global CEO Jake Yamashita, “Any […]
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has fulfilled his childhood dream today as he travelled to space as one of two passengers on board a Russian rocket headed for the International Space Station (ISS). Yusaku Maezawa, the founder of Japanese online fashion retailer Zozo, and his production assistant, Yozo Hirono, have become the first space tourists to […]
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