While LinkedIn sits comfortably on its pile of money after this year’s IPO, other companies in the space are challenging its hegemony by targeting markets where LinkedIn is weak. One such company is Viadeo, sometimes referred to as the ‘French LinkedIn’. It announced at today’s TechCrunch Disrupt in Beijing that it now has 40 million [...]
October, 2011:
Steve Jobs couldn’t light an iPad candle to Bob Dylan
The dust has settled, the iPad candles have tapered out and a-man-who-employed-more-creative-people-to-put-his-ideas-into-action has gone away; away to a most uncertain fate. Yes, Steve Jobs is dead. He once called death a great invention. Hopefully he is still of that view, but none of us know. I searched in vain for an ironic tribute in UK [...]
And the winner is… the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego
Much of the mobile industry was in San Diego this week for CTIA, the twice-yearly wireless show that I first attended almost a decade ago. I hadn’t been for three years and this time I was invited by the organisers to present some awards. I also ran a Speed Session where my chosen eight companies [...]
What happens in a Swedish digital prison, stays in a Swedish prison
I think I’m going to explode. To paraphrase Bob Dylan, I can’t see, I can’t hear, my head is busted, stomach cracked, feet splintered, I am bald, naked… lucky to be alive though. That’s where so-called modern travelling gets you. Two weeks ago it was Ghana for a long weekend, then up at 5am to [...]
