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Tortoise & Hare

2012-01-17T10:40:00.000Z

While it will have taken the newspaper industry over 100 years to create the infrastructure needed to reach 1.8 billion readers it will have taken the technology industry less than 10 years to achieve comparable reach!

agree to disagree

2011-11-02T19:45:00.000Z

Metro International - pioneer of free newspapers

2011-11-01T08:59:00.002Z

Steve Jobs

2011-10-10T13:55:00.000+01:00

A Hong Kong design student's tribute to Steve Jobs that generated a buzz in cyberspace following the death of the co-founder of Apple last week is not original, the teenager said on Monday. Jonathan Mak, 19, said he was not the first to come up with the design that fits Jobs' silhouette into the bite of the Apple logo. He was speaking after comments surfaced on Twitter that a U.K.-based

Newspapers irrelevant to under 40 years olds

2011-10-03T15:15:00.000+01:00

Take a look at the table below its a graphic illustration of the almost complete lack of interest paid to newspapers by people under the age of 40 years. Ouch

LivingSocial - $200m raise not IPO

2011-09-23T14:03:00.000+01:00

Daily online deals startup LivingSocial might delay filing its initial public offering in favor of a new $200 million funding round, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. The fact that both LivingSocial and rival Groupon are rethinking their IPO strategies could signal a slow down in the market demand for daily deals across the board. T he potential

Greatness - its in your grasp

2011-09-21T10:16:00.002+01:00

US Defence Spending $$$

2011-09-05T18:55:00.000+01:00

thank you www.theday.co.uk - explaining matters

The future of newspapers

2011-09-05T11:31:00.003+01:00

This is a lot of fun as it imagines what a newspaper reading experience might be like in the (near) future. New York Times R&D Lab: The kitchen table of the Future from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.

Apple on a role

2011-07-20T15:30:00.001+01:00

Apple is on a phenomenal role right now. Revenues rose to $28.6bn in the quarter, up from $15.7bn last year, while profits soared to $7.3bn, more than twice as much as in the same quarter in 2010. Most exciting is the fact that two thirds of the computer company's revenues are now coming from mobile devices which did not exist four years ago. Thats just incredible. Where to next for

LivingSocial next deal of the day service to IPO?

2011-06-30T12:44:00.000+01:00

Kate Kelly at CNBC just reported LivingSocial — a Groupon-like daily-discount company — is in the process of picking bankers for its IPO. Here are the details, as reported by CNBC: An IPO could value LivingSocial at $10 billion to $15 billion. LivingSocial is likely to pick a banker by the end of the week. LivingSocial is expected to reach $1 billion in revenue this year, and they expect to be

China in Africa

2011-06-30T12:35:00.000+01:00

Two centuries ago, Napoleon observed: "China is a sleeping giant, but when she wakes she will shake the world." Certainly the case it Africa where an estimated 1 million Chinese now live China is redefining the continent's economic landscape and gradually displacing the influence and relevance of western governments, corporations and development agencies. Beijing now lends more to Africa

Trinity Mirror Exec Pay

2011-06-21T13:49:00.000+01:00

The heat has finally been turned on Trinity Mirror CEO Sly Bailey by shareholders regarding her executive pay. As the article in the ST stated the size of her pay is completely out of wack with the (current) size of the business. It may well be time for Ms Bailey to do the right thing and re balance her pay package to the size of business she has presided over for the last 10 years. Shrinking

Facebook hits a wall

2011-06-14T10:39:00.002+01:00

Facebook has seen "big traffic drops" in the U.S. and Canada, even while it slowly closes in on 700 million members globally, according to Inside Facebook, which monitors membership rates of the social network. The behavior of the social network's North American

Ad Placement (not funny)

2011-06-14T10:21:00.001+01:00

Nokia and Apple friends again?

2011-06-14T09:02:00.001+01:00

Nokia And Apple Bury The Hatchet, Settle Patent Suit http://cnt.to/os5

high50 launches

2011-06-07T16:30:00.001+01:00

I am delighted to announce the launch of high50. Its taken rather longer than we expected (3.5 years) but good things come to those that wait dont they? And over a million more people have turned 50 in the meantime so the delay isnt all bad. So for those of you who have made it through the last half-century in reasonable shape and are looking forward to the next. Join us. A big thank you to

Apple arrives in the cloud

2011-06-07T09:06:00.000+01:00

For those of us hard at work on developing cloud products that make it easy to access data from any device it was great to see Mr Steve Jobs unveil iCloud.Following hard on footsteps of Google and Amazon Apple are the latest 'big beast' to offer consumers the ease and convenience of storing data in the cloud and the ability to access it from any device. Its a great space and one that will

Groupon Q1 revenues blast

2011-06-03T07:15:00.000+01:00

Groupon 2011 Q1 revenues of $645m, almost as much as for the whole of 2010 at $713m (FT)

Where are the true believers?

2011-05-28T09:08:00.000+01:00

Startup fundraising isn't about convincing skeptics but rather finding true believers.

Twitter buys Tweetdeck

2011-05-24T20:04:00.000+01:00

Taking out another potential competitor, Twitter has reportedly acquired TweetDeck for more than $40 million in cash and stock.

Apple dominates profits with 57% profit share in Mobiles globally

2011-05-17T20:50:00.000+01:00

With 19% smartphone (Canalys) market share, and 5% Mobiles (IDC) market share, Apple takes a disproportionate 45% of the industry profits. Blackberry (25% of Industry Margins), HTC (15%), Samsung (12%) and Nokia (8%) complete the list.

Microsoft to buy Nokia!

2011-05-17T15:26:00.000+01:00

Microsoft rumoured to be negotiating to buy Nokia's phone business. Watch this space

Trinity Mirror continues to struggle

2011-05-15T11:17:00.000+01:00

Trinity Mirror has reported a 10% fall in advertising revenue in the year to 1 May and warned of the continuing challenging and fragile economic environment facing newspaper publishers.

The Times iPad

2011-05-11T06:43:00.000+01:00

Twenty-five thousand people read The Times on iPad each day. Its stablemate The Sunday Times counts 22,000 readers, including two million iPad page views.