Amazon accepts Visa credit cards in global truce over fees

Amazon.com Inc has reached agreement with Visa Inc (V.N) to accept its credit cards across its network, ending a standoff between the two that threatened to disrupt e-commerce payments and deal a blow to the U.S.-based payments processor.

Geoscientists’ competency assessment comes to Australia

Australia is the latest continent to get a taste of a new online self-assessment tool to benchmark the skills within the international operations geoscience community and identify individuals’ skills gaps. The tool enables operations geoscientists, in the oil and gas sector, to objectively assess the level of their current skills – which they need to be successful in their role.

Stocks rally, seizing on Ukraine de-escalation signs

World stocks crept higher on Wednesday for the second day in a row, while safe-haven assets such as government bonds and gold lost ground, despite Western scepticism over Russian claims of a troop pullback from Ukraine’s borders.

TRANSFORMING SOCIETY & THE WORKPLACE THROUGH EDUCATION

By Pascal Bornet As we enter into “the fourth industrial revolution,” as described by World Economic Forum founder and executive chairman, Klaus Schwab, we see a disruption in society as a result of the use of technology and intelligent automation to increase productivity. Many workers have already been displaced and that number will continue to […]