There is nothing quite like the bubble of conversation and connection between people meeting and re-meeting over a shared meal.  We have missed it hugely over the last two years: Zoom has enabled the transactions of...

Last year, a former Reddit engineer devised a simple online word game for his partner to stave off boredom during lockdown. Today, only a few months later, this particular lockdown project is played by millions around...

If you live in a city in the UK, you’ll have grown used to seeing Uber Eats and Deliveroo riders weaving through traffic delivering hot meals to customers at home. Online delivery, in all its forms, has boomed over...

This has been an exciting week in Primrose Hill! Just down the road, in Chalk Farm, a new Amazon Fresh store has opened its doors, giving customers – and those of us at MBS visiting our offices – the chance to...

Earlier this week, it was a privilege to partner with Signal AI and Tortoise Media for an event looking at the way we make decisions, and how technology – in particular data and AI – is impacting how businesses run...

I have always been fascinated by how a neighbourhood can define who you are and what you do with your life. A real generalisation I know, which probably therefore, means nothing. I have not done the research on...

Going back several decades, many retailers across apparel, food, footwear, health, beauty and home owned their own production facilities. In many cases, manufacturing prowess preceded retail stores: shops were simply...

I suffer from a serious case of FOMO, and I get anxious if there’s anything trending that I don’t know about. So a month ago, when the Founder of Secret Cinema Fabien Riggall offered me one of his five...

Not many sixteen-year-olds spend their free time interviewing business leaders. But Andrew Fisher, today a plural NED and one of the UK’s most innovative digital minds, was one such sixteen-year-old. “I’ve...