Our recent interview with the COO of Aflac, Paul Amos, saw him flanked by the Aflac Duck: an omnipotent presence who sat throughout the interview, overseeing the entire operation. To be fair, that depiction of the Aflac Duck makes it sound like something out of a Stephen King novel, as though the whole thing was ...

Amidst the global recession of the last two years, the news of profit losses, job cutbacks and business closures soon became a daily occurrence. While the meltdown of the global banking sector spearheaded the headlines, the ensuing impact on our daily lives really took effect as the recession hit our retailers hard. With everyone across ...

A new report released this week revealed that more than 15,000 people have become victims of fraud in the first six months of 2010. The report, which focuses on UK consumers, was compiled by Action Fraud – the national fraud reporting centre – and reveals that the amount of money people had been tricked out ...

At the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg on Sunday, the 2010 World Cup will come to an end with a spectacularly anticipated, all European showdown between Holland and Spain. Statisticians and data freaks are already doing the number crunching – compiling all the crucial (and the perhaps more peripheral) data to try and establish just ...