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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
If we don't tackle the injustice at the web's heart its streams of content will simply dry u
THE LAST 20 years have not been kind to those creative types who originate new content. Advertising income which used to financially...
Amazon helps put workers on Skid Row - so why does our government do so much to help them?
THE CITY OF SEATTLE at the top left hand corner of the United States has become famous for successful global businesses such as Boeing,...
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...
'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...
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....
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...
Code clubs can inspire our children to become digital natives
AS WE ALL KNOW, today’s world is increasingly a digital one. It is pretty much impossible to think of a modern activity that doesn’t, in...