December 31, 2025

Why Young Entrepreneurs Are Flocking to Franchising — and What It Means for Your Brand

Younger entrepreneurs are reshaping the franchising landscape, bringing technology fluency, a desire for purpose-driven work and a fresh approach to business ownership.

A closer look at Apple’s browser-related changes to iOS in EU

January 26, 2024

The raft of iOS changes Apple dropped in the European Union yesterday, as it prepares for enforcement of the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) to kick in March 7, include some big developments around browsers that look set to shake up a pretty stale market. The goal for the EU regulation is exactly that: To […]

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The Download: testing wastewater for measles, and the cost of nature

January 26, 2024
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How wastewater could offer an early warning system for measles Measles is back with a vengeance. In the UK, where only 85% of school-age children have received two doses of the MMR vaccine,…

UK launches antitrust probe into planned $19B Vodafone / Three merger

January 26, 2024

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a formal probe into the proposed merger between Vodafone and Three UK. The news hardly comes as a surprise, given that the £15 billion ($19 billion) joint venture would reduce the U.K.’s main infrastructure-owning mobile networks from four to three (the other two being EE and […]

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How wastewater could offer an early warning system for measles

January 26, 2024
Measles is back with a vengeance. In the UK, where only 85% of school-age children have received two doses of the MMR vaccine, as many as 300 people have contracted the disease since October. And in the US, an outbreak has infected nine people in Philadelphia since last month. One case has been reported in…