Published on The Next Web How do we tell stories? With a beginning, middle and end, right? “Protasis, epitasis and catastrophe” – Aristotle slapped the label on dramatic structure in 335 BC and it’s been there ever since. We tell them sometimes through humour, sometimes through fear. And the listener listens, the reader reads, the… [Read more…]
March 1, 2012
Published on The Next Web It could be a bit idealistic to call a self-publishing platform whose success is primarily based on Justin Bieber fan-fiction ‘the next sanctuary for the hopes and dreams of teenagers’. But the young people using a new platform called Movellas write about divorce, heartache, homosexuality, discrimination, pressure and angst. While some… [Read more…]
March 1, 2012
Published on The Next Web Imagine a murder in your neighbourhood. The police release a photofit. They put it on Facebook. You see it and recognise the murderer: it’s you. That’s what citizens of the German city of Hannover are afraid of. In Hannover, local police have implemented a pilot scheme called “Fahndung via Facebook” – manhunt… [Read more…]
February 6, 2012
Published in StrategicRISK, January 2011 In a world where 35% of the population is online, 470 million smartphones are browsing the world wide web 24 hours a day and over five billion devices altogether are connected to the internet, being connected has never been this easy. It’s also never been so dangerous. Our increasing dependence… [Read more…]
December 19, 2011
Published on Wired.co.uk December 2011 “Launching a product during LeWeb week is like whispering during a death metal gig — very difficult to get heard,” tweeted The Next Web’s Martin Bryant a few days before LeWeb 2011 kicked off last week. It is true, the Parisian tech conference has become a giant among events of… [Read more…]
December 15, 2011
What’s the music industry’s biggest problem? Big questions for Sean Parker today, interviewed by TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis onstage at Le Web. His appearance attracted the biggest crowd of all sessions at the three day conference. As usual, he was asked where the social web was going and approached by a member of the audience who… [Read more…]
November 13, 2011
As published on TechCrunch Tech City, East London’s go-to-region for digital and creative companies, is one of the fastest growing tech and digital clusters in the world, according to UK government figures. Today the area hosts more than 600 tech startups. In 2008 TechCrunch Europe noted that number was around 16. So today TechHub, the… [Read more…]
November 13, 2011
As published on TechCrunch What I like about NOAH is that it feels a bit like a big cocktail party. Yes, there are the panels and presentations, hidden elegantly behind the black curtains that separate the exhibition area from the conference hall, where the big guys onstage share success stories with the audience. But the… [Read more…]
October 29, 2011
Published on TechCrunch October 2011 Telecommunications has moved to the cloud, inevitably. We have a tele-cloud in East London now, where Twiliohas opened its first office outside the U.S. today. The reason I’m excited about this is that telephony infrastructure in the cloud is as technically simple as economically cheap. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Twilio, as you… [Read more…]
October 19, 2011
Published on TechCrunch Europe October 2011 Well-known Israeli power player Yossi Vardi took to the Wired 2011 stage this week in front of an audience still thinking about robots arguing with Heather Knight, to talk business. Vardi, Israel’s number one high-tech entrepreneur, has been involved in building over 60 companies in various fields, from mobile… [Read more…]
October 11, 2011
Published on Wired UK October 2011 In the wake of Steve Jobs’ passing the young entrepreneurs at Startup Week 2011 had two choices: mourn the death of an idol or honour the role his work played in making their own businesses possible. After a minute of silence they chose the latter. “We, Europe, have tech talent and determination as… [Read more…]
October 4, 2011
Published in StrategicRISK September 2011 as a follow-up to my article First Bribery Act Charge Disappoints The first prosecution under the UK Bribery Act has been met with disappointment from some legal experts. Critics claimed the authorities missed their first opportunity to send a stern signal in their fight against corporate corruption. The test case… [Read more…]
September 24, 2011
Published in StrategicRISK September 2011 Although pirate attacks are becoming more widespread, merchant ships are also becoming harder targets leading to a decrease in successful attacks, new research shows. Far from being confined to the coast of Somalia, pirate attacks at sea are becoming much more widespread, a new in-depth piracy report revealed. At the… [Read more…]
September 14, 2011
Published in StrategicRISK September 2011 Only a handful of employees who witness misconduct within their organisations actually raise their concerns or report what they know to management for fear of retaliation, a major new survey has found. The Corporate Executive Board (CEB) surveyed more than 525,000 employees at 130 companies around the world. The results… [Read more…]
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