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The Fintech Juggernaut

May 14, 2014 By Stuart Wilson

The Fintech Juggernaut

The rise and rise of fintech as a concept, and as a startup investment opportunity, represents a juggernaut that would appear impossible to halt right now. Funding in financial technology in the banking capital of the world, London, has grown at twice the rate of Silicon Valley since 2008. Banks and financial institutions have never […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: financial advice, Fintech, investments, startup

Write off Bitcoin at your Peril

May 9, 2014 By Stuart Wilson

Write off Bitcoin at your Peril

Bitcoin has undoubtedly divided both financial and technology commentators since its inception. Indeed with a marketplace value that has fluctuated in worth from between $100 and $1,100 within the space of 12 months, it would be easy to come to a relatively safe assumption that it is an unstable currency or investment. However, whenever anything […]

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: banks, Bitcoin, investments

Quantified Self-Obsession?

May 1, 2014 By Stuart Wilson

Quantified Self

The Quantified-Self Movement is nothing new, but now that Google and Samsung have expressed their intentions to move into the market with specifically designed gadgets – and with Apple a certainty to come up with something too – the idea that every man (and potentially his dog) will be wearing a small monitoring device before […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Apple, Google, Quantified Self

Google’s Plans for Robotic Assimilation

April 23, 2014 By Stuart Wilson

Google’s Plans for Robotic Assimilation

US based tech company Boston Dynamics were acquired by Google at the back-end of 2013, the details of which have not been made public. What also has not been seen fit for public consumption by the software giant is their reasons for showing such an interest in military robot technology, although Google have vehemently denied […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Boston Dynamics, Google, Ray Kurzweil

Facebook faces up to reality with Oculus deal

March 28, 2014 By Stuart Wilson

Facebook faces up to reality with Oculus deal

Facebook has either pulled off a smart deal or gambled £1.2 billion on Oculus VR – a trendy technology company with no track record making a virtual reality gadget that is not proven to work. The social networking site has a vision of the future which involves the merging of humans and gadgets in a […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Facebook, internet, investments

Berners-Lee And The World Wide Web At 25 Years Old

March 17, 2014 By Stuart Wilson

Berners-Lee And The World Wide Web At 25 Years Old

The World Wide Web is 25 years old and to mark the occasion, the inventor Tim Berners-Lee has asked web users to take action over some haunting questions about who and why the internet is used. Berners-Lee put forward a paper on March 12, 1989 suggesting scientists could link their computers into a web of […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: internet

The Sky’s The Limit For Space Investment

March 13, 2014 By Stuart Wilson

The Sky’s The Limit For Space Investment

Investing in space can offer stellar opportunities as companies push back the frontiers with out-of-this-world ideas. Space investment is not just about asteroid mining and tourism. Many companies firmly rooted on Earth offer equity stakes to investors in commercial technology deployment now NASA has turned developing and funding space missions over to the private sector. […]

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: Crowdfunding, investments

Bitcoin and digital currencies: The future of money?

March 12, 2014 By Stuart Wilson

Bitcoin and digital currencies: The future of money?

March has been a tough month for digital currencies. Bitcoin, the world’s first digital cryptocurrency, was dealt a massive blow when its biggest exchange Mt. Gox announced the theft of millions of dollars’ worth of bitcoins and its consequent bankruptcy. In addition, a spate of smaller scale thefts have rocked other digital currencies, such as […]

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: banks, Bitcoin, digital currency

Internet of Everything

March 11, 2014 By Stuart Wilson

The meaning of being ‘connected’ has changed a lot over the years, but no one ever envisaged such a simple word meaning so much as technology and  humans move from the world of science fiction to science fact and the internet of everything. The internet of everything, or IoE, is when humans, data and devices […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Google, internet

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