Pragmatist

Funny to see a story from John Gapper in the FT this morning, saying technology will hurt retail banks but not kill them , only a few pag...

The distinction between 'facilitators' and 'institutions' is a theme that has emerged quite strongly in this blog and is ...

As part of its Red Tape Challenge , the Cabinet Office is now targeting laws that stifle the development of new business models for no go...

Recent discussions about whether new entrants are pushing banks to the back office of the consumer finance space have prompted me to update...

Oikonomics makes the excellent observation that "We consume not to conform and be like (or liked) but to be different and thereby fee...

Rupert Murdoch thinks search engines are getting a 'free ride' on News Corp's content. He also sees little value in 'occasi...

A hat tip to Mark Nepstad for pointing out Chris Perry's article on the challenge for any established business trying to leverage the s...

There's been a lot of excitement about recent "research" to say that only 10% of people on Twitter are responsible for 90% of...

Hardly a month of the 21st century has passed without some breathless announcement of soaring growth projections in the mobile space. Two o...

It was an unusually broad church that came to hear whether people will replace financial institutions at WeBank last night. More network ...

You may have seen some of the bleating about Google's decision to retire some of its services that never hit the mainstream . Such whing...

It's a sad day at Zopa, which has announced the closure of its US credit union programme due to adverse market conditions for credit un...

You'll have gathered from the title "Pragmatist" and my explanatory blog , that I'm fairly sceptical when it comes to mess...

It's fascinating to see the mainstream business press calling time on "Web 2.0". Presupposing that the Web 2.0 tag constitute...

I'm enjoying Nick Holmes' digests of Richard Susskind 's forthcoming missive on the future of legal services - a plea for innov...