What cheese can tell you about international barriers to trade

Slicely does it BEN SKAILES, a British cheesemaker, is busy as Christmas ripens demand for his Stilton. Foreigners make up a third of demand for his dairy, Cropwell Bishop Creamery. This exporting achievement is not to be sniffed at when one considers the barriers to the cheese trade. Some are natural. Perishable food goes better […]

THE PROGRAMMATIC TV AD EXPLAINER: Forecasts, top trends, and barriers to adoption in the programmatic TV ad-buying space

BI Intelligence This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here. The TV ad industry is one of the largest ad segments in the US — and it’s ripe for digital disruption. The first TV commercial aired in the US […]

Africa's New Barriers for Foreign Mining Firms

Germany’s public broadcaster Deutsche Welle joins forces with OZY to pique the curiosity of globally minded readers. Tanzania’s president John Magufuli does not need any more opponents than he already has. Since taking office, he has contended with critical journalists, lazy officials and the European Union. But the temperamental president, nicknamed “bulldozer” by some of […]

WATCH: Man attempts to jump train barriers and skip fare but suffers INSTANT karma

A CCTV clip uploaded to Imgur shows to men standing behind the barriers at a train station. One man reaches into his pocket to get his ticket out – but the other man decides he doesn’t want to pay. Standing close to the barrier doors, he places his arms on the barrier walls and lifts […]

The Barriers Stopping Poor People From Moving to Better Jobs

MERCED, California—Seccora Jaimes knows that she is not living in the land of opportunity. Her hometown has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, at 9.1 percent. Jaimes, 34, recently got laid off from the beauty school where she taught cosmetology, and hasn’t yet found another job. Her daughter, 17, wants the family […]

TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS BRIEFING: Uber and Lyft in talks with new investors — Autoliv to break off tech business — Barriers to drone adoption in construction

Welcome to Transportation & Logistics Briefing, a new morning email providing the latest news, data, and insight on how digital technology is disrupting transportation and delivery, produced by BI Intelligence. Get the free Top 5 Disruptive Trends Shaping Transportation & Logistics report and start receiving our brand new Transportation & Logistics newsletter. Have feedback? We’d […]

Indigenous Games: Akwesasne athlete inspires women by breaking barriers

Kawehnokwiio Bailey Thomas buried her face in her jersey as tears came down the side of her face. She and team Eastern Door and the North (EDN) fell in straight sets to team Newfoundland and Labrador to finish 10th in the U19 female volleyball competition at the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG). But for the […]

5 major barriers facing the future of connected cars

GUEST: Connected vehicles (CVs) have inspired so much digital ink, it’s easy to forget autonomous vehicles (AVs) aren’t the only digital innovation revolutionizing the auto industry. Nor, in fact, are they the first. CVs have been on our roads and highways for the better part of decade, and most newer vehicles feature some form of […]

Proof Brits LOVE to queue as hundreds form spontaneous winding line WITHOUT barriers

It’s a well known fact that Brits are experts at queues, a sentiment engrained in the very culture of the UK.  Hundreds of Britons demonstrated the uncanny ability at the O2 in London and it did not go unnoticed.  Andrew Last was at the sold out Ed Sheeran concert when he saw a spontaneous queue […]