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Earlier this week, Rolls-Royce and LinkedIn announced that they are cutting 6% and 3% of their global workforces, respectively. On October 19, Nokia revealed it is taking the same path. In a move to counter a significant drop in profits and demand for its products, the Finnish telecom giant announced plans to cut between 9,000
The European Parliament and the Council reached a provisional agreement this week on the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. “The first element that makes a product green is the brain that designs it,” Spanish Minister for Industry and Tourism Jordi Hereu i Boher said. “With the agreement reached today we want to make sure that
Why is the telecommunications industry so important? Given that everything from observing Earth via satellites to scrolling through social media relies on telecom companies or “telcos,” providing a succinct and effectual answer to this question is a cosmic challenge. However, to put it into perspective, here’s a list of things you wouldn’t be able to
During Oct. 6-8, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and their affiliate, the Learning and Knowledge Development Facility (LKDF) hosted an online event to discuss the ongoing issue of a worldwide shortage of green skills. The issue, explained in more detail in an earlier Impakter article, is that the world’s workforce is ill-prepared to
The anti-apartheid movement in South Africa was one of history’s largest and best examples of the power of collective action working to take down corrupt regimes. Over a period spanning more than half a century, movements and leaders rose from the ground up to protest against the system of racial segregation and discrimination, culminating in
MICROSOFT MAKES A STUNNING TURNAROUND BOOK REVIEW: Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone by Satya Nadella published by HarperBusiness September 26, 2017, 293 pages Hit Refresh, the best-selling memoir of its new CEO, Satya Nadella, aims for the higher moral ground. For Nadella, success, life, relationships, work, everything hangs on