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Uber: the winding road from Paris to NYSE
It’s perhaps difficult to remember a time before the now-ubiquitous whirring sound of Toyota Prius hybrids shuttling busy people around the world’s cities, but in reality Uber is just 10 years old. The company,...

A Direct to Consumer future for the FMCG industry?
Waves of innovation are fundamentally reshaping the dynamics of the sectors we serve. Scaling tech-led challenger brands and transforming corporates are converging on the benefits of Direct to Consumer business models....

Tech Q&A: GoCompare CEO Matthew Crummack on the future…
In the latest edition of the Tech Q&A series, MBS’s Stephen Rosenthal talks with Matthew Crummack, CEO of GoCompare.com Group plc (‘GoCompare’), the Newport-headquartered tech company behind disruptive brands...

Tech Q&A: Channel 4 Chief Human Resources Officer Caroline…
In the latest in his Tech Q&A series, MBS's Stephen Rosenthal sat down with Caroline Ross, chief human resources officer at Channel 4 to discuss how technology is changing the way human resource directors can...

Tech Q&A: InView chair Nick Markham on digitising a…
On the back of our recent focus on the rise and rise of content, coupled with ever-increasing broadband and mobile network speeds, this edition of Tech Q&A looks at the impact streaming and On Demand content is...

The week streaming came of age – and what…
July 2018 – and specifically the past seven days – will, I believe, go down in history as the fundamental moment in which streaming established itself a dominant global technology. A bold prediction perhaps, and...

Mary Meeker and the Future of Everything
When Mary Meeker speaks, people tend to listen. The former Morgan Stanley MD and, as of 2010, partner of leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is widely considered as one...

Tech Q&A: Bloom & Wild CEO Aron Gelbard on…
In the latest in his Tech Q&A series, Stephen Rosenthal, Head of the Technology and Digital Practice at The MBS Group, met with Aron Gelbard, the founder and CEO of Bloom & Wild, the letterbox flowers and plants...

MBS white paper: Harnessing the power of data
Are you excited, confused or overwhelmed by the potential of data to transform your business? If the answer is “all of the above”, rest assured - countless executives who are racing to keep pace with the...
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