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The ‘buy button’: a revolution in ecommerce?
The last few weeks have seen a flurry of social networks announcing plans to morph themselves into ecommerce operations. First YouTube announced plans for shoppable adverts, before parent company Google quickly followed...
The winds of change: hiring in the digital economy
At The MBS Group we thrive on a challenge – we always have – and there are few challenges greater than taking over a failed search from a competitor. Knowing that the market has already been extensively mapped,...
Virtual reality: this is what the future looks like
Readers of a certain generation will understand what I mean when I say that 2015 doesn’t look anything like I imagined it would. When I was growing up we were told that, by now, we’d all be driving flying cars and...
Start-up incubation: the next big business?
Sometimes the best innovations are the simplest ones. Those of you who have been keeping one eye on the developments at the Consumer Electronics Show this week will, like me, be excited about the new ideas on the...
Adapt or die: the changing nature of taxi markets
Like most people in the professional services industry I spend a portion of my day riding around London in a taxi visiting clients. Up until recently, I had an account with a respectable minicab company – it was...
What the Top Track 250 tells us about tech…
I was browsing the Sunday Times Top Track 250 last weekend, seeing which mid-market consumer companies have been doing particularly well this year. There were lots of successes from retailers, FMCG businesses, travel...
Will Apple’s new launch change the smartwatch game?
Like many others around the world, a group of us gathered around my computer on Tuesday at precisely 6pm to tune in to the latest Apple launch. It was dramatic, atmospheric and exhilarating, and to watch it in real time...
GoPro: the Apple of the outdoors?
It sometimes feels as though we are running out of niches for tech to exploit. One area that has always been ripe for exploration, though, is the action and excitement associated with outdoor activities. Given this,...
What we can learn from the world’s most innovative…
Many companies these days say that they are ‘innovative’, but I have believed for a long time that true innovation is a lot harder to come across. It takes something special to change things through thinking...
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