Join up the thinking – give us all a break!

 

British Prime Minister, David Cameron, took time out of his busy schedule this week to visit a round-a-bout in Old Street.

Kind of.

What he was actually doing was offering support for an area of East London called ‘TechCity;’ a group of 600-odd tech businesses that have developed in that area.

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Facebook.in? Will mobile be the driver for growth in emerging markets?

The Economic Times today reported some interesting news from Delhi: social networking giant Facebook expects its largest user base to come from the Indian subcontinent in the near future, surpassing Indonesia and the US in terms of sign-ups.

More than 70% of Facebook’s 800 million users are outside the US, with the Indian customer-base growing at a phenomenal pace.   Continue reading

Google+: Open for business?

Let’s face it: Google Wave was rubbish.  If we’re being honest, we didn’t really understand what it was supposed to do or how it was supposed to make the online experience better.  Besides, we have Twitter and Facebook to keep us connected: killer social media platforms whose tentacles now penetrate every desktop, laptop, tablet and mobile devise.

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