For many small businesses, the move to cloud software happened gradually and then all at once. Accounting shifted from desktop programs to online dashboards. Payments moved into digital platforms. Customer records moved into CRMs. Files moved into shared drives. Communication moved into messaging tools and video calls. Each change made business easier to run. A…
In the early hours of Sunday, 28th June, Ugandan military personnel raided the premises of Nation Media Group-owned media houses in Kampala, forcing television and radio broadcasts off the air and shuttering print titles. Journalists and media leaders are being targeted online as the military increases its pressure on independent media across the country. WAN-IFRA…
Speaking at our recent Digital Media India Conference in New Delhi, Vertika Kanaujia, who leads editorial operations at Financial Express Digital, traced how newsrooms arrived at this point, citing a recent WAN-IFRA and FT Strategies study as a reference point for the scale of the problem. From mass media to the page view Kanaujia traced…
The Retail Payments Infrastructure Board has launched a consultation on the future design of the UK’s next-generation retail payments infrastructure, opening a key stage in a long-running effort to modernise the systems that underpin everyday payments. Published on 25 June 2026, the consultation will help shape the blueprint for the new infrastructure, which is intended…
Since its founding in 2009, Girls Who Print has grown into the world’s largest professional network for women in print, packaging, publishing, and graphic communications, with more than 12,000 members worldwide. Now operating as a woman-owned non-profit, the organisation continues to expand its mission of helping women learn, grow, and lead through education, mentorship, networking,…
easyJet has rejected a fourth takeover proposal from US investment firm Castlelake, turning down a 650 pence-per-share offer that valued the budget airline at £4.9 billion, while for the first time signalling it is open to engaging if the bidder can produce a more attractive proposal. Disclosed on 25 June 2026, the rejection marks a…
CSS is listening to us. No, not like that. Rather, CSS is accumulating more and more pseudo-classes to help us respond to JavaScript events so that we don’t have to do so with JavaScript itself. But while pseudo-classes track states, not events, they sure can feel like event listeners sometimes (not that it really matters…
The Digital Media Awards South Asia 2026 ceremony also took place during the event, and The Hindu Group was named Champion Publisher of the Year. AI, audience growth and new business models shape Day 1 The conference opened with a keynote by Stig Ørskov, CEO of WAN-IFRA, who outlined five transformations shaping the future of…
Value up, volume down — megadeals carry a record-chasing M&A market through a year of geopolitical turmoil. Global mergers and acquisitions are on track to reach roughly $4 trillion in total value in 2026. That’s up 13% from 2025 — only the second-highest spike to the pandemic-era peak of 2021 — that figure obscures a…
Volkswagen has agreed to sell a 51% stake in Everllence, its large-engine subsidiary formerly known as MAN Energy Solutions, to Bain Capital in a leveraged buyout that will generate proceeds of about €7.4 billion ($8.4 billion), in one of European industry’s biggest carve-outs this year. Announced on 24 June 2026, the deal hands control of…