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A New Tech Bubble

April 9, 2012 by alistairmilne 0 Comments

In the last hour I heard that Facebook has bought Instagram for $1billion dollars. This is literally double the valuation that was set for Instagram by VC investors at the end of last week, who put in $50 million at a valuation of $500million! At the last count, Instagram had 30 million users. It recently [...]

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Apple’s Worst Enemy: Moore’s Law

March 8, 2012 by alistairmilne 0 Comments

Yesterday, Apple announced the ‘New iPad’ its 3rd generation tablet device which is already outselling the number of PC’s sold by any individual manufacturer. Apple did not invent the portable MP3 player, the touchscreen mobile phone nor the tablet computer … but what they most certainly did is create truly user-friendly versions and use their [...]

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£200,000 Startup Competition

March 7, 2012 by alistairmilne 0 Comments

Thanks to Orange, UK entrepreneurs have a new chance to win ~£200,000 worth of help – including some cash investment – to get their business off the ground and on to a flying start. The prize, valued at £200,000, includes advice and mentoring, marketing consultancy, legal advice, mobile devices and plans from Orange as well as [...]

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The Home PC is About to Die

February 12, 2012 by alistairmilne 0 Comments

Within a year or two, the home PC (including laptops) will start to die out. Smart devices such as the smartphone, tablet and smart TV will make them redundant. We’ll have a variety of different screens around the house which can either be TVs or workstations for us to work on … but the processing [...]

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Who Will Save Nokia?

January 20, 2012 by alistairmilne 0 Comments

So far, Nokia’s comeback – where they bet everything on the Windows Phone operating system – has been an unmitigated disaster: – In late 2011 they launched their Lumia 800 smartphone, which was immediately out-sold 100 to 1 by the Samsung Galaxy S2 in the UK … a country known to traditionally love Nokia – [...]

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