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...To identify companies under these categories, Faire Fonds used seven sources of data, including the exclusion list of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, data from Climate Action 100+, the Corporate Human Rights...
...But the data undoubtedly also reflects an upsurge of interest in entrepreneurship across many countries, particularly among the young....
...Hampered by budget constraints, Beane used a data-focused strategy, known as sabermetrics, to re-examine how the team valued players while maximising Oakland’s relatively small payroll....
...“The most effective way to improve diversity is to change your sourcing strategies,” he says. That starts outside the office....
...Also on Europe's Sifted this week: the start-ups allowing users to harvest and then sell their own personal data (for around £5 a month), the data behind challenger banks hoovering up investor cash, and...
...Chris Willcox is chi ef executive of global investment management at JPMorgan Asset Management...
...The biggest ETF, in fact, is State Street Global Advisors’ $240bn SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, which tracks the S&P 500, according to data from ETF.com....
...The iPhone’s biggest share gains were in the US, from 34 to 41 per cent, Kantar’s data show — its highest point since January 2015....
...Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reported that TalkTalk’s share of new customers in the home telecoms services market fell 4.4 percentage points in the third quarter when the hack occurred....
...The study, due for public release on Tuesday, shows China fell 10 places to 47th in a ranking of 70 countries compiled by EF Education First, which based its rankings on test data from more than 900,000...
...The global market is feeling the effects....
...The EF English Proficiency Index, which analysed test data from 750,000 adults in 63 countries, found that Hong Kong was well behind Malaysia and Singapore....
...He invested in Montreal start-up Keenkong, which — in some ways like the US National Security Agency — scanned social media to try to gauge the effectiveness of companies’ marketing spend....
...He also faces more competition arising from big data and is increasing spending on technology to better understand customer needs....
...Those tested are self-selected; EF calculates a country’s average adult English skill level using data from two tests completed by hundreds of thousands of adults every year – one a test for enrolment in...
...According to the latest sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the European smartphone market is showing increased fragmentation as leading brands such as Apple and Samsung face competition from...
...Many businesses have joined in with social media sites, creating Facebook pages and Twitter feeds, and expending great effort to increase “likes” and “followers”....
...And there is HealthKit, Apple’s new platform for uniting health and fitness data from a variety of apps and devices....
...But UK tech eceived some high-profile backing last December, when EF start-ups gathered in Buckingham Palace’s Bow Room to meet senior technology executives, venture capitalists and the Duke of York, who...
...Athens has struggled to overcome a longstanding reputation with the commission for inaccurate reporting of budget data....
...Even in western markets, Kantar data suggest small screens are driving iPhone owners into the arms of rivals....
...The agency said the difference compared with the flash estimate resulted from using new monthly data on imports and exports in June and quarterly data on the labour force and turnover in the services sector...
...Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent,” wrote EF Schumacher in 1973, “but it takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.”...
...“The latest output figures are another indication that we are reaching bottom but we can’t say exactly when it will happen,” said Miranda Xafa, chief executive of EF Consulting in Athens....
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