The package of sensors, alarms and software, dubbed Driver Safety Solution (DDS), aims to prevent accidents caused by fatigue by detecting when a truck driver is about to fall asleep. The technology has already been put to the test in trails by BHP Billiton and Newmont Mining.

Developed by Australian firm, Seeing Machines, DDS will cost up to $20,000 to install on each vehicle, although a discount applies if it is bought in bulk.

In the United States, Presidents’ Day falls between the birthdays of two of the nation’s most revered leaders—George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. As the country’s schoolchildren are constantly told, both men are remembered for their honesty, but would Washington and Lincoln make it in today’s business world?

Bilateral trade between the two countries is worth $26 billion through imports and exports of watches, medicines, textiles and dairy products.

The deal marks China’s first free-trade deal with a continental European economy and is one that it hopes will be felt beyond Switzerland's borders.

Hailing the move as a historic step towards regional integration, the countries revealed the deal would eliminate up to 90 percent of merchandise tariffs between them with months, with the remaining ten percent disappearing by the end of the decade.

The countries also agreed to abolish the need for tourist and business visas, allowing their citizens, which have a combined population of 210 million people, to travel more easily between the four countries.

The US company, which specialises in using turbines mounted on tethered kites or wings to generate power, is to become part of Google X, the secretive research and development arm of the business.

It is estimated that the 40MW farm off the north-west coast of Lewis will ultimately produce enough energy to power around 30,000 homes.

Wave energy firm Aquamarine Power said it would begin installing its Oyster devices in the next few years, once grid infrastructure is put in place. The project will be carried out by Aquamarine subsidiary Lewis Wave Power Limited.

It was in 1986 that Stephan Roux, an experienced restaurant manager before becoming a serial entrepreneur, decided to go into the business of making ice cream. In fact within the space of five years he had founded two companies - the first was Cream Star based at Ga-Rankuwa to the west of Pretoria, the second Avondale with its HQ and manufacturing facility at Silverton on the east side of the city.

It has happened. Vanessa Guthrie told us she was not anxious about the twice delayed approval by Australia's Federal Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities Tony Burke to go ahead with Toro Energy's A$269 million Wiluna uranium mine, but the uncertainty must have cast a bit of a cloud over the Easter break.