Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Mar 9, 2020
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Cummings' focus on innovation comes at the expense of its economic benefits
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jan 13, 2020
- 3 min
Terry Wogan can teach us a lot about modern banking
THERE WAS A JOKE going around at the beginning of the last decade. It went like this: Who is the odd one out: Dennis Stevenson (former ch...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Nov 2, 2019
- 3 min
A tale of two online fantasy sports games rivals
A FASCINATING NEW BOOK has just been published in the USA: ‘Billion Dollar Fantasy’, written by Albert Chen, a Sports Illustrated editor....
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Sep 6, 2019
- 3 min
Issues of trust leave Facebook with uphill struggle to introduce Libra currency
IN A BREATHTAKING LACK of self-awareness, Facebook, the least trusted company in the world in protecting customer's personal data, have a...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jul 6, 2019
- 3 min
Scotland's Space Technology Industry gathers momentum
AS WE ALL KNOW, 100 years ago, the Clyde shipbuilding industry was the biggest in Europe, building a fifth of the world’s ships, but what...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- May 10, 2019
- 3 min
The art of stopping dark abuses of technology before they happen
AT LONG LAST, social media companies have been firmly put on the naughty step; guilty as charged of spreading fake news, encouraging youn...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Mar 7, 2019
- 3 min
Orkney becomes first in UK to power its energy needs from renewable sources
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO I was invited to speak at the newly established Orkney Science Festival and I looked forward to making my first of ...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jan 11, 2019
- 3 min
How can Nick Clegg be the right man to clean up Facebook's image?
WHEN BROADCASTING was first introduced around the world - radio from the 1920s and television from the late 1940s – governments everywher...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Nov 11, 2018
- 3 min
It makes sense that a company could work better if it's owned by its own employees
GOVERNMENTS, political parties and economists have recently been revisiting an old issue - who actually owns businesses, and maybe rethin...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- May 11, 2018
- 3 min
Why not ask public businesses with a proven track record to run the East Coast rail line
WHENEVER I AM OBLIGED to join the ranks of the WILLIEs – that’s the name for people who ‘Work In London, Live In Edinburgh’ – I usually e...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Mar 16, 2018
- 3 min
'Elite' Scottish Universities paper over education cracks
LET'S FACE IT – Scotland doesn’t really lead the world in anything much. Our sports teams are mediocre, we have almost no globally signif...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jan 15, 2018
- 3 min
We have the power to control the online 'Wild West'
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Dec 1, 2017
- 3 min
Awards' international female role models beg a question
BACK IN 1989, I was chairman of the Scottish Software Federation, the then nascent trade association for the Scottish software industry. ...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Nov 6, 2017
- 3 min
Is Apple deploying 'slugging' tactics on its phones?
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Oct 2, 2017
- 3 min
Brexit casts huge shadow over funding of tech start-ups
NOW THAT THE Brexit negotiations are limping into action it is becoming very clear that this is going to be far from a simple process. We...
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