12/18/2014 11:50:01 AM The hashtags that tried to change the world this year By Nick Pitman The hashtag; loved and loathed in sometimes equal amounts, was born on Twitter to help track conversation topics. Soon it was used to...
12/8/2014 7:16:54 PM Feeding Britain By Anonymous We welcome a report published today "Feeding Britain" which looks to address many of the social challenges society now faces in the...
11/16/2014 5:14:36 PM Robots to be deployed to fight Ebola? Better think carefully By Anonymous BBC Click recently did a brief feature on some robots that are being investigated for using in areas with a high risk for Ebola...
10/29/2014 12:51:26 PM If this doesn't make you feel small, nothing will By Tom Elgar There is a trend recently for people to completely misuse the word 'humble'; "our start-up got 300,000 users in the first month and...
10/16/2014 11:16:02 PM How Beacons Are Changing the Shopping Experience By Gareth Jones A great HBS Blog on Beacons.. imagine walking by or into a store and receiving a text message triggered by a beacon at the store...
10/16/2014 3:18:32 PM Quantopian Raises $15M, Plans a Quant Hedge Fund By Gareth Jones Quantopian has raised a $15 million Series B round to develop a new type of hedge fund, one that essentially crowdsources the investment...
10/15/2014 3:09:48 AM Survey results of retail banks - Digital investments top priority By Anonymous A recent survey of retail bankers cited that online and mobile platforms are the leading focus of technology investments. Some of the...
10/15/2014 1:32:52 AM Rumor mill: PayPal is said to be in early talks to acquire Square By Anonymous Could a PayPal acquisition be the exit that Square investors are hoping for? The companies most recent valuation was $6B, which means the...
10/14/2014 3:15:42 AM Why Bitcoin’s Price is Irrelevant to Its Success By Gareth Jones Perhaps we need to see less headlines about Bitcoin’s price, and more headlines about Bitcoin-based innovations and applications.
10/6/2014 3:06:36 PM Fantastic Data Visualisation - 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes By Anonymous This is a great little clip. I've been recently becoming more and more fascinated by data, both the insights it can give us and how it...
9/30/2014 9:11:00 PM Make Yourself Young Again . . . without drugs By Andrew Mills How? By changing your thoughts and you'll change your world. Sounds too simple to be true. But Dr. Joe Dispenza's in his new book, 'You...
9/22/2014 8:41:55 AM Google+ not required by Gmail By Adam Elgar This is a surprising move from Google; no longer forcing Google+ down everyone's throats. It would strongly suggest that G+ as a service...
8/29/2014 1:48:10 PM Lending Club - Originate To Distribute and Regulatory Arbitrage By Brad van Leeuwen This article argues that Lending Club can be a better bank than the banks. Whilst I love P2P and think it has a great future to replace...
8/21/2014 9:17:34 AM Email and Holidays never mix! By Keith Wardle Now as an advocate of time being THE most precious asset we have then this approach from Daimler I both agree with and encourage UK...
8/19/2014 3:16:41 PM Try Gamification as Part of Your Marketing Strategy By Connor Kinnear Gamification is becoming more and more used in the business world. I do not think it 's a very good word but the concept is. It's been...
7/29/2014 3:11:37 AM Disrupting Payments, Africa Style By Gareth Jones A terrific re/code article that points out that by simply firing up your SMS app in rural Africa you can buy something. The merchant...