By Rob Pegoraro A tech policy project’s latest grading of human-rights commitments finds 12 telecom companies from around the world to be a relatively dirty dozen, with the “best” company earning a score of 57 per cent, the worst just 9 per cent. This 2022 Telco Giants Scorecard(Opens in a...

Smartphone sales will start to spring back this year once consumers feel more confident in their future. Consumers are becoming more willing to finance and purchase handsets independently from their network providers, giving manufacturers and retailers a greater incentive to advertise handsets themselves. Meanwhile, the networks will seek to recoup...

LinkedIn has just announced findings of a new Job Seeker research to discuss how job seekers in India are overcoming challenges of finding a job today, and how they are leaning on their communities to find new career opportunities in 2021. More than 3 in 4 professionals will consider changing...

By Joanne Liou To ensure the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technology in any country, whether in the medical, agricultural or industrial fields, an effective and comprehensive national legal framework is critical. In line with its mandate, the IAEA provides legislative assistance, upon request, to help countries to...

Reliance Jio and state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) were the only telcos that registered an on-year growth in subscribers base in 2019 while the other telcos--Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel lost subscribers, Trai data revealed. Jio added 90.9 million customers in 2019 to take its overall base to 371.1...

By Emmanuel Oluebube, Correspondent UK COVID-19 death rates in Poland have increased at an alarming pace since early April, from 4.7 deaths per million population to over 100, as of October 20. This indicates that the country is not yet ready to ease social distancing measures and should consider implementing...

By Emmanuel Oluebube, Correspondent UK To bring more insight to technology spending across and within industries, International Data Corporation (IDC) recently published a series of Industry Spending Guides that provide in-depth forecasts for spending on 3rd Platform technologies (mobility, cloud, big data and analytics (BDA), social) and Innovation Accelerators (artificial...

The Pulse check report issued by a consortium of multilateral development banks and trade research institutions, recounts the views of sub-Saharan banks on multi-lateral development banks’ (MDBs) responses to uphold a well-functioning trade finance market. The report, which brings together perspectives & insights from 70 trade finance executives from 20...

By Celestine Okorie The Zanzibar Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project, implemented between 2012 and 2018 in Tanzania, has provided water and sanitation services to around 287,000 people, according to a report by the African Development Bank published on September 2, 2020. Financed by a Bank loan in the amount...

By Kingsley I. Ilechukwu With the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announcing that it will also initiate a rolling review of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech besides just AstraZeneca’s asset, Pharma Writer for the Investigative News team at GlobalData, Reynald Castañeda offers his view: “After interviewing ten experts,...