Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
New Business Models
| Tags: strategy,
Wendy Hart,
Google,
Stephen Weatherseed,
economist,
Microsoft,
EIU,
Dominic Preston,
Will Oxley,
New Business Model

Read here what our Grant Thornton experts think about the weaknesses of business models used by UK businesses today.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Media,
Technology
| Tags: Bill Gates,
Facebook,
Google,
Microsoft,
award,
social networking,
Innovation,
Ross Perot,
Social media,
Steven Levitt,
Superfreakonomics,
Mark Zuckerberg,
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.
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