Image copyright Melissa Brooker Image caption Melissa Brooker and her daughter, Isabelle, now aged five Melissa Brooker had been in her job as a senior HR director for 10 years and “loved every minute of…
Image copyright Eli Zaturanski Image caption The young couple are said to still own 45% of their $160m business The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles business leaders from around the world. This week we…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Amazon owner Jeff Bezos has been criticised by President Trump for paying “little or no taxes” “Great fortunes,” the American industrialist Andrew Carnegie is reported to have said, “are…
Image copyright Getty Images Ten years ago, investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in the US. Its UK operations ceased shortly afterwards. The BBC talked to people involved about their recollections of the bank’s…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The city of Naples stretches towards the imposing volcano Vesuvius As tech giants Apple and Cisco set up academies in Naples, the city’s tech entrepreneurs are hoping new investment…
Image copyright Getty Images The latest big fall in profits at John Lewis has thrown the spotlight on to its famous price promise – to be “Never knowingly undersold”. Competition in retailing has never been…
Image caption Trade ties between the UK and Israel are growing strongly, particularly in the technology sector Ami Daniel doesn’t see Brexit as a reason to hold off expanding his company in the UK. “We…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption 5G was showcased in a variety of ways during this year’s Winter Olympics Superfast “fifth generation” (5G) mobile internet promises download and browsing speeds 10 to 20 times faster…
Image copyright The Bay Image caption Calum Richardson was determined from the outset to eliminate plastic from his restaurant The BBC’s Circular Economy series highlights the ways we are designing systems to reduce the waste…
