In the world of tech, communication can fall far below innovation or investment. Some of the industry’s leading lights are lousy communicators, and issues that alarm the general public are often met…
Jeff Bezos is the World’s Richest Person. Now He Should Buy Twitter
Imagine making $2.4 billion in a day. Jeff Bezos can. Above-average Amazon Black Friday sales landed him the figure, tipping his personal fortune over the $100bn mark, the first person to do…
Alex Vieux: Despite a Positive 2017, A Tech Bubble “Is Not Coming Yet”
Red Herring chairman has warned that a tech bubble “is not coming yet,” at a state-of-the-industry address to delegates in California this week. Vieux, who was hosting hundreds of industry CEOs, insiders…
Social Media Giants Face a Public Backlash – But is it Too Late to Change?
So, it’s official: Russia meddled in the US election, and Big Social Media helped it. Exhaustive Washington hearings his week have dragged heads from the world’s largest social media companies–Facebook, Twitter and…
The Dread Pirate and The Populist: Czech Tech Pros See Few Pluses in a Tough Election
This weekend Czechs go to the polls in a hotly-contested general election that pits a billionaire populist against his former colleague, a dreadlock-sporting digital pirate and a half-Japanese, Islamophobic right-winger. But amid…
Amid a Humanitarian Tragedy, Entrepreneurship is Being Kept Alive in Yemen
When Ibrahim Saleh began working in tech, barely anybody else understood what he did. It was 2006 and his home country of Yemen, torn by decades of coups, conflicts and civil wars,…
Will Sudan’s Sanctions Drop Finally Connect Its Entrepreneurs With The World?
It is almost a quarter-century since Omar al-Bashir appointed himself President of Sudan. In that same year, 1993, America deemed al-Bashir’s government a state sponsor of terror – a label it shares…
Las Vegas Shooting: Social Media Has Failed America Again
As information about Sunday’s massacre in Las Vegas emerges, the United States has reverted to its usual polarized self, forcing voices on either side of the gun control debate into ever-decreasing circles…
Catalonia’s Independence Bad for Madrid – and Tech
The images coming from Catalonia this weekend have been a worrying throwback to less peaceful times in Spain, Europe’s sixth largest economy. An independence referendum, outlawed by the government in Madrid, went ahead despite…
For One Sri Lankan Software CEO, There Was One Obvious Choice for Scale: Scandinavia
In 2005, five years after Mano Sekaram founded software engineering firm 99X Technology in Sri Lanka, he was looking to scale internationally. His firm was at the vanguard of a booming tech…