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It’s Wednesday 27th January, or Year Zero for some – today we finally get to see what Apple’s tablet device is. Variously able to save…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | January 27, 2010 11:55AM | 3 Comments »
Recently we interviewed David Cohn, a Bay Area entrepreneur who is experimenting with crowdfunded investigative journalism (journalism funded by small donations from a wide base…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Tomorrow People | January 21, 2010 3:07PM | 1 Comment »
The trickle-down structure of technology rollout across the world usually reads thus: something starts in Japan or Silicon Valley, blows minds, and makes its way…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 10, 2009 2:51PM | 9 Comments »
David Cohn is the founder of Spot.Us, an investigative journalism project based in the San Francisco Bay Area that is innovating a new ‘crowdfunded’ economic…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Tomorrow People | December 8, 2009 12:40PM | 2 Comments »
In September, having an invite to Wave, Google’s latest milestone product, made you the coolest kid in school (at least among the nerds hanging…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | December 4, 2009 1:28PM | 7 Comments »
We’ve already noticed how Oswald Grubel, chief exec of UBS, has a dogged positivity usually associated with Portsmouth managers, evangelical Christians and the…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | November 18, 2009 12:17PM | 1 Comment »
Online ad spending may be on the up, set to rise by 7% next year, but judging by various recent industry reactions, the…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | November 16, 2009 1:28PM | 2 Comments »
The Internet Advertising Bureau’s Engage conference went down yesterday, in a week where the media industry is thoroughly unimpressed with the returns from…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | November 12, 2009 12:40PM | No Comments »
Two stories to faintly warm the cockles of the old-school print journalist today – firstly the Observer isn’t getting canned as previously mooted,…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | November 11, 2009 12:24PM | 1 Comment »
Samsung has announced it’s getting into the app development market, with its “bada” software platform and developers toolkit. We saw Paypal…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | November 10, 2009 12:57PM | 1 Comment »
There’s been a flurry of activity across the Rupert Murdoch media empire recently as the Digger hatches his plans to get people to pay for…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | November 9, 2009 12:23PM | 3 Comments »
UBS really can’t catch a break. In the last year they’ve harboured tax evaders, created a diplomatic spat with the US,…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | November 6, 2009 12:08PM | No Comments »