World business leaders select UK as the second most desirable country in the world for businesses to expand into - narrowly behind US

The UK has been selected as Europe's most desirable country, and second in the world, by companies looking to expand their business overseas, according to The art of connecting global business, an international report published by BT.

Underlying potential outweighs short-term volatility for banks in emerging markets

Emerging markets have been the principal driver of global growth in the last five years and are expected to continue growing at twice the rate of developed markets. As a result, banks in emerging markets expect improved financial performance, despite facing challenges of rising costs, intensifying competition and tougher regulatory burdens, finds a new EY report, Banking in emerging markets: Investing for success.

Positive sentiment strongest since advent of M&A Leaders Survey; valuations expected to remain high; maturing companies turning to acquisitions for growth

It's been a long drought for tech-sector M&A activity, but dealmakers are finally seeing some relief.

Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has announced the release of a new report titled, "Smart Lighting Markets 2014 Volume I: Market Drivers and Forecasts." In the report the firm projects that smart lighting markets worldwide are expected to grow from around $1.0 billion (USD) in 2014 to around $10.9 billion by 2019. While the market is currently dominated by lighting for commercial and residential buildings today, NanoMarkets expects that street lighting, other outdoor lighting and applications in transportation will account for 42% of smart lighting revenues by 2019.

At the big picture level, not much seems to have changed in the OLED materials space since NanoMarkets reported on it in 2013. It is still a business that is dominated by Samsung and one that appears to be perpetually waiting; for OLED TVs, for OLED lighting and for solution processed OLED panels.

Contactless Card, Infrastructure Rollouts Spurring Mobile Growth
A new report from Juniper Research has found that the number of consumers making contactless payments via their mobile handsets would reach 300 million globally by 2017, up from just over 110 million last year.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Conductive Ink Market Report 2014-2018 - Silver Flake & Nanoparticle, Copper Flake & Nanoparticle, Carbon/Graphene, CNT, Dielectric, Polymer" report to their offering.

According to a new report published by Transparency Market Research "Potassium Chloride Market for Fertilizers, Pharmaceuticals, Industrial and Other Applications - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 - 2019" the global demand for potassium chloride was valued at USD 21.67 billion in 2012 and is expected to reach USD 32.87 billion in 2019, growing at a CAGR of 10.8% from 2013 to 2019. In terms of volume, the global demand for potassium chloride was 51,000.0 kilo tons in 2012.

Growth of the fertilizer industry is expected to be one of the major factors driving the demand for potassium chloride over the next few years.

Year-to-date sales remain well ahead of last year's pace; WSTS forecast projects growth of 6.5 percent in 2014 and 3.3 percent in 2015

Future Potential for Top Companies in Food, Beverage, Personal Care & Healthcare

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-- 76% of entrepreneurs plan to hire this year, compared with 31% of CEOs running large corporates

-- Technology is driving global job creation and opening up talent pool

-- Entrepreneurs in EMEIA most confident and likely to hire from abroad