In Monday's edition of The Herald, Victoria Masterson speaks to Glenn Collison of University of Edinburgh spin-out pureLiFi, whose vision is to provide virtually unlimited internet connectivity through the world's 20 billion light sources.
This includes street lights, car headlights household lighting, and would wipe out the global bandwidth shortage overnight. The company raised $18 million last year in a bid to take its transformational technology mainstream.
“We are just using regular light – LED light bulbs,” Mr Collinson explains. “That means wherever you have light, you can receive an internet connection."
In Mark Williamson's SME Focus, Steven Wade talks about his ambition to become the go-to supplier of all wild Scottish game products.
His Fife-based business, Woodmill Game, expects turnover to hit £100,000 this year. It provides wild food to households, restaurants, shops, hotels and event organisers throughout the country.
In his comment, Scottish financial sector veteran Guy Stenhouse contrasts the styles of how Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon have dealt with senior advisors caught breaching lockdown rules, and asks the question, who would you rather have as your friend in difficult times?
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"These instincts matter in an economic context as we plan the recovery from Covid-19," he argues, as state control of people's lives and economic endeavours has "failed again and again" to deliver the goods.
Read these stories and more in tomorrow's business section of The Herald, available both in print and online.
Tuesday brings the latest retail sales monitor from KPMG, covering the month of May. A trading update from housebuilder Bellway is also due.
On Thursday, the retail group behind discounter B&M Bargains is expected to reveal strong trading at the end of the past financial year after it was boosted by the stockpiling of store cupboard essentials.
Last month, B&M European Value Retail also hailed a resilient start to the current period as its stores remained open to customers throughout the lockdown. The group is expected to report surging sales for the year to March 31 following 6.6% like-for-like sales growth in the fourth quarter.
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