Selfie is the word of the year
“Is this a selfie which I see before me, The angle toward my hand? Come, let me tweet thee*” Oxford Dictionaries have announced that their word of the year for 2013 is ‘selfie’. Over the course of the...
View Article‘Convergence is King’ in the new information industry
In the new information industry, neither content nor technology is king. It is the unique combination of both which is driving the sector. With the start of a new year comes a flurry of reports and...
View ArticleEurope: competitiveness and innovation
Europe has a reputation as being unfriendly to innovators – but is this fact or perception? International business school INSEAD set out to uncover the truth. First, as part of INSEAD’s European...
View ArticleSharing, collaboration and getting it wrong
There’s nothing like a headline telling you you’ve got it wrong to make you read on. An article on Time.com written by a data analytics expert tells us ‘What [we] think [we] know about the Web is...
View ArticleStudents – earning less, owing more
Several bad news stories for students have emerged this month. A report (‘Payback Time’) published by the Sutton Trust in the UK, sets out to analyse the impact of recent changes to student loans and...
View ArticleLearning from the world’s top brands
Google takes top spot away from Apple This year’s BrandZ report has been released. The researchers analyse corporate earnings and combine this data with large-scale consumer research in 30 countries....
View ArticleEphemeral messaging
“This message will self-destruct in 24 hours” The growth of ephemeral messaging services and private social networks – individuals want more privacy; companies want to be more like Snapchat! Path is a...
View ArticleCash free and free cash
While a millionaire is giving away cash on Twitter, new tech is enabling more people to go ‘cash free’. The Twitter ‘free cash’ phenomenon has spread to Europe. In the US @HiddenCash has been posting...
View ArticleWorkplace trends – meet the no-collar workers
If you’ve just about got your Gen-X and Gen-Y straight, meet a new group of workers. There are already, according to the latest estimates, 40 million millennials in the American workforce. A recent...
View ArticleChildren and teenagers online
According to recent reports, Google is working on child-friendly versions of some of its services. At the moment Google services are age-restricted (to over 13-years old in the United States; over 16...
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