Friday, June 04, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Media,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
financial,
Twitter,
iPhone,
Credit Card Reader,
Android,
Jack Dorsey,
Square
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has launched a mobile payment solution that allows anyone with an iPhone to take plastic
Friday, April 09, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models,
Business,
Media
| Tags: media,
technology,
government,
business models,
Mark Henshaw,
Finance Bill,
Digital Economy Bill,
Landline tax,
Spotify
“The digital sector plays a vital role in the UK economy and the Government is attempting to acknowledge this via the
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Media,
Technology
| Tags: Bill Gates,
Facebook,
Google,
Microsoft,
award,
Innovation,
social networking,
Ross Perot,
Social media,
Mark Zuckerberg,
Superfreakonomics,
Steven Levitt,
Economist Innovation Award,
billionaire
Mark Zuckerberg has a huge problem – what’s he going to do next? This year’s Economist Innovation Award winner, the 24-year old billionaire creator and Facebook CEO, may have peaked too early. Until Facebook develops an application to tell the future, the profile of another Ivy League drop-out, entrepreneur and programmer provides some insight. Zuckerberg may be the next William Gates III – energetic, opportunistic, commercially savvy.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Environment,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: links,
Twitter,
climate change,
TED,
robots,
photography
This month, the Grant Thornton team has been reading about robots with smiling faces, documenting climate change using time-lapse photography and ‘tweeting’ for a taxi home…
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Environment,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
links,
Cirque du Soleil,
Innovation,
music
From the reef-like nature of innovation and new ideas, to innovation lessons from the Cirque du Soleil, here’s what the Grant Thornton Innovation team has been reading about this week…
Monday, September 14, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Media,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
FT,
Twitter,
fashion,
IFA,
Berlin,
Netbook,
Scott Schuman,
Ralph Lauren,
3-D home cinema,
Dell,
pay-per-click,
The Sartorialist,
The Times,
Sascha Pallenberg,
Samsung,
consumer technology,
Gap, Blogging
Berlin’s brand ‘n’ blog gateway opened to a flood of technology innovation last week. The annual IFA, one of the world’s largest tech exhibitions, served as the launch pad for streams of new consumer devices, not least of which is the 3-D home cinema experience. At the hotdog stands, the buzz was all about Samsung’s giant exhibition space, the heart of which was a thirty metre tall entertainment dome. It was all very sci-fi, and I’m still not sure if there was a point to it, other than to elicit hundreds of thousands of “Wow” sounds from visitors, and to create a buzz, around the hotdog stands.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Environment,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: government,
James Caan,
iawards,
BIS,
innovation awards
Is your organisation British and inventive? Does its innovative products, practices and projects deserve wider recognition? Then the
Thursday, May 21, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Media,
Technology
| Tags: innovation,
media,
technology,
digital
Alex Johns, MD of iblink left his job with Siemens 3 years to start up iblink which filled the niche created by technologists who knew a lot about technology and less about marketing and marketeers who knew a lot about marketing but little about technology. Today iblink is an award winning digital marketing business with a number of blue chips clients such as Titan, Superdrug, Bluewater, P&G and Unilever.
We commissioned The Economist Intelligence Unit to survey UK executives on how assumptions on business models have changed, and how companies are planning to adapt over the next 18 months.
