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Image via Wikipedia Your biggest competitor is launching a new product that attacks your dominant market leader head-on. What do you do? You don’t want to look desperate but equally you can’t ignore...
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Farcebook and internet bubbles
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’ve found it difficult to watch the recent Facebook flotation, subsequent drop in share price and clamour of litigation without...
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Lucky vs hard working
What brings success? Is it hard graft or can you short circuit the years of work by just being a bit lucky? That was the topic of a recent CfEL Enterprise Tuesday, where entrepreneurs Rahul Vohra and...
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When to give up
It used to be that failing in business was a potentially catastrophic black mark in the UK – essentially the end of your career. But over the last decade attitudes have changed, driven by a more...
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Million pound dropped
On the face of it, David Cameron’s announcement of a £1m prize for solving a ‘grand innovation challenge’ is good news for UK science and industry. The competition will look at the biggest issue of...
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The all-seeing eye
People are still coming to terms with the lack of privacy that social media and the online world have brought. Some are happy with the fact that ‘privacy is no longer the social norm’ (to quote Mark...
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10 changes that Facebook has made in ten years
This month Facebook celebrates its tenth birthday, having come a long way from Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room in 2004. Hitting 1.23 billion active users and 2013 revenues of $7.87bn points to an...
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Generating a network effect – why WhatsApp is worth $19 billion
As I’ve said before, the technical side of creating a new social network is relatively easy – and nowadays with cloud computing you have fast, cost-effective access to the resources you need to scale...
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Virtual Reality – the new mobile?
Acquisitions by large companies can be a bit of a mystery, forcing people to ponder why they are spending their money on unrelated markets or technologies. Is it a stroke of brilliant foresight, PR by...
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Will Facebook at Work work?
Last week, Facebook launched Facebook At Work, its latest attempt to bring the social network into the enterprise business mainstream. Cue lots of commentators prophesying doom for the likes of...
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Will Facebook take over the world?
Last week Facebook announced that on Monday 24th August 1 billion people logged into the social network. That’s 15% (almost one in seven) of the world’s population using Facebook in a 24 hour period....
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Is there space for Google Spaces?
Today our internet use is dominated by just a few tech giants – Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple (GAFA) in the UK and US, with the likes of Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba leading the way in China. What...
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Facebook, News and the impact on communications
The last year or so has seen a rude awakening for tech giants, particularly social media platforms. As they’ve risen in importance, politicians, regulators and the public have moved from seeing their...
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Facebook, electoral manipulation and Cambridge Analytica
It’s a well-known fact that on ‘free’ social media sites, users are actually paying with their data, allowing them to be targeted with advertising that should match their preferences, and therefore be...
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4 ways that tech giants can turn their image around in 2019
Its fair to say that tech giants had a shocker PR-wise in 2018. Vilified for how they treat consumer data, spread malicious/fake news, fail to protect privacy, low tax payments and underhand PR methods...
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Nick Clegg – the worst job in PR?
There are lots of jobs in public relations that could best be described as ‘challenging’ – and at worst be considered nightmares to avoid at all costs. Press secretary to Donald Trump or Elon Musk’s PR...
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