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COVID-19

US must improve COVID-19 strategy to keep tens of millions from falling into poverty

“Low-income and poor people face far higher risks from the coronavirus due to chronic neglect and discrimination, and a muddled, corporate-driven, federal response [that] has failed them”, said Philip Alston, t...

Kearney-survey
COVID-19

Kearney survey finds 79% UAE shoppers changed shopping habits post COVID-19

A survey commissioned by Kearney Middle East reveals that 79% of consumers in the UAE have admittedly changed their shopping habits during COVID-19 developments, spending more online they would have previously....

Genetec
COVID-19

Genetec offers orgs free access to its digital evidence management system

Genetec has announced that it is making its digital evidence management system, Genetec Clearance, available free of charge to any organisation looking to efficiently share digital evidence, from wherever they ...

Steve-Herz
COVID-19

Managing sales during pandemic is once in lifetime career experience

For chief sales officers CSOs, risk management related to the COVID-19 pandemic extends beyond the sales organisation to risks originating in the customer ecosystem and the supply chain. The planning and execut...

Mike-Hoff
COVID-19

How to manage the regional consequences of the pandemic as a team

As we all know, we are currently operating in unprecedented and uncertain times. Business owners are trying to manage their cash flow forecast with no knowledge of when we will be officially outside the crisis ...

Christy-Uher-Ferguson
COVID-19

Contingency plans imperative for any event activities says Gartner

Contingency plans will minimise the business impact of canceled or postponed events and enable organisations to overcome associated disruptions due to coronavirus, according to Gartner. Respondents to the 2019 ...

GEMS
COVID-19

GEMS delivers 4.3M+ remote learning sessions with near 100% attendance

GEMS Education schools in the UAE have rolled out exceptional remote learning plans for students and parents since the mandated closure of schools and the move to E-learning last month. In excess of 4.3 million...

Dr-Johannes-Ullrich
COVID-19

SANS reports increased risk to companies using RDP post COVID-19 outbreak

SANS Institute, the global leader in cyber security training and certifications, has identified a 30% increase in attacker interest in Remote Desktop Protocol, RDP, servers during the month of March 2020. This ...

Richard-Marko
COVID-19

ESET Foundation to finance 100,000 COVID-19 kits and tests in Slovak Republic

Scientists from the Slovak companies MultiplexDX, Lambda Life and ProScience Tech have joined forces with virologists from the Biomedical Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, BMC SAV, to develop a reagent ...

WHO
COVID-19

UN: Now is ‘not the time’ to reduce funding for the WHO in COVID-19 fight, urges Guterres

“As I said on 8 April, the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most dangerous challenges this world has faced in our lifetime. It is above all a human crisis with severe health and socio-economic consequences”, he ...