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By Dario Betti, CEO, Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF)
Social media platform TikTok is a vast, endlessly scrolling stream of creativity, mimicry, and influence. Around 170 million Americans now open the app regularly, joining hundreds of millions more around the world in what has become a kind of global video bazaar. It is, as some have called it, a smorgasbord of culture. Yet “dim sum” might be the better metaphor, because TikTok’s ultimate owner is ByteDance, a Chinese company – and that fact has been a persistent thorn in Washington’s side.
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By David Bruce OBE, founder of Bruce’s Brewery and the Firkin pubs and author of The Firkin Saga
When I realized university wasn’t happening, I had to choose between apprenticeships at Courage brewery or Shell oil. I chose brewing because it sounded much more fun with its pubs and breweries than petrol stations and oil refineries. It was the best move I ever made, setting me up for life as an entrepreneur. That two-year training program gave me everything I needed: whisky blending, wine importing, accountancy, pub management, and most importantly, genuine empathy with employees. I understood every aspect of the pub business because I’d done every job myself. Without that grounding I would not have built a successful group of 12 pubs across London, eventually selling the chain for £6.6 million.
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By Dario Betti, CEO, Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF)
Meta’s Threads has quietly released an option to allow all users to send direct messages to each other; it is testing if Threads could be turned into a messaging app. But this isn’t innovation, it’s survival. Meta is betting that users want tighter access over larger audiences, and that the social currency of the 2020s isn’t likes, it’s direct reach.
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By Jamie Dobson, author of Visionaries, Rebels and Machines
If you had to pick the five inventions that have had the greatest impact on the world in the last 100 years, there are many candidates to choose from. Aircraft, automobiles, and the Internet are all strong contenders. Among those also having a good case for making the cut is the mobile phone, particularly the smartphone. Think about your own phone. You may have used it as an alarm to get you out of bed, as a newspaper while the kettle boiled, as a diary to check the day’s appointments, as a Sat-Nav to get you to those appointments, as a book to read at lunch, and as a way to pay for that lunch. You may have even made an actual phone call. And you could be reading this on your phone right now. None of that would be possible if not for a dead frog.
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By Dr. Will Parks, author of Graceful Leadership
From emergency response coordination in earthquake-devastated Nepal to the front lines in Iraq during the ISIS insurgency, working in international development has taken me to some of the world’s most challenging environments. These experiences may seem worlds apart from quarterly board meetings, but they share a common thread: both require leaders who can inspire others to perform at their best even under intense pressure.
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By Jamie Dobson, author of Visionaries, Rebels and Machines.
It’s very likely that the word “cool” is not the first thing you associate with the UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain, Aldi, but in Greenwich, Aldi is trialing something undeniably cool. Rather than shopping, standing in queues, struggling through self-scanning, and fumbling in your wallet for a loyalty card, customers can simply visit the store, choose the items for their weekly shop, and leave as cameras and sensors track selections and artificial intelligence acts as a virtual cashier.
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By David Bruce OBE, author of The Firkin Saga
In July 1979, I opened the Goose & Firkin – London’s first pub in over a century to brew its own beer. Many said it would fail immediately – the financial advisor who’d seen my business plan scrawled across it: “This project has absolutely no chance of succeeding and I suggest you abandon it immediately.” Yet, nine years later I sold the Firkin chain for £6.6 million.
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By Dario Betti, CEO, Mobile Ecosystem Forum
Two years of Threads, Meta’s version of microblogging, have been marked by rapid growth and fast-paced feature development; its momentum is undeniable. While it has not yet surpassed X/Twitter in terms of reach, its monetization strategy may have already outpaced its well-established rival. Threads is an undeniably strong business.
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By Jamie Dobson, founder of Container Solutions and author of Visionaries, Rebels and Machines
The Industrial Revolution—and the pivotal role played by James Watt’s steam engine—is often cited when discussing fundamental changes to our economic and social fabric. Since then, we’ve had a number of other “revolutions”.
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By Jamie Dobson, founder of Container Solutions and author of Visionaries, Rebels and Machines
Many people view Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the greatest thing since sliced bread. However, even sliced bread has its detractors (highly processed ingredients for starters), and there are plenty of folk far from keen to embrace AI. As is the case with almost everything, there is a sweet spot between the extremes where most people will gravitate to, but getting there does require us to address various concerns. And for business owners and managers there are a few worries that need to be considered.
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