Yesterday, I heard the news that HMV had gone into administration. As with stricken photography chain, Jessops, this story has been unfolding for some time and both a sad losses for our great British high street. Even more so for...

This year it seems pretty certain that Twitter will start completing the necessary paperwork for an IPO in 2014. Many people do not realise that Twitter as a business is almost 7 years old. I was one of the first...

“We will never buy online" “You won’t catch me using my credit card on the internet”  “How safe is my information online?” These phrases were once commonplace in the b2b and b2c space. In fact, they are still common in...

For some time, it’s been known that North of Europe is at the forefront when it comes to tech, with new start-ups being rolled out on an on-going basis. But it’s not just the tech market that Scandinavia is dominating...

When I turned up at the Slush Conference in Helsinki last week, one of the first questions I was asked was: “do you have any comments on the Autonomy news?” Once I got my head around what had actually happened,...

I remember going to Canary Wharf in the early 90’s and thinking that there was not a lot there. In fact, in 1991, there were only 6 shops. Now there are some 200 shops in 60 odd very big buildings,...

I have just spent a great few days in Dublin at the third Web summit. Dublin, a great city in its own right, that happens to hold one of the better European technology events of the year. While searching for...

I defy anyone not to be inspired by what happened on 14th October 2012 when 8 million people were watching the YouTube footage of Felix Baumgartner standing on the step the size of a skateboard at the edge of space,...