Archive August 9, 2019

The future of social care

In the past five years, 400 care homes have closed. With local authority social care spending slashed by half in just a decade, Peter Taylor-Whiffen asks how care providers can turn a profit – and help safeguard vulnerable residents.

How to fund your SME

Jon Scopes details the key lessons learned at an SME funding masterclass ran by the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund and ICAEW.

Key concerns for CFOs

Following the recent roundtable on strategy execution, Rick Payne takes a look at the key concerns for CFOs.

Getting out of your comfort zone

Nick Pye discusses the dangers of staying in your comfort zone and outlines why businesses should aim for the ‘STRETCH’ zone.

How climate affects accountants

Climate change is now higher up on the political agenda, but what does this mean for accountants and businesses? Rachel Underhill explains.

Xiaomi developing 108-megapixel smartphone camera with Samsung

(Telecompaper) Xiaomi announced at its “Images of the Future” conference in Beijing that it’s working with Samsung to develop a 108-megapixel camera sensor for inclusion in future phones. In a statement, Xiaomi said the 108MP “ultra-clear” image sensor, the world’s highest-resolution smartphone camera sensor, will be capable of producing photos with a resolution of 12,032 x 9,024 pixels, maintaining a picture quality of 27MP in 2x zoom, which more than doubles the pixels of a standard 12MP telephoto camera. No additional information was provided other than the claim that the sensor is “coming soon”.