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From a sector similarly smashed myself, it’s fascinating to read the efforts of indomitable chef Mark Hix. The hospitality trade has had a hammering. As frequent tales of pivoting online, takeaways and food trucks attests, there’s only so much you can do to substitute for both an inability

[https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/sonyhistory-b.html] The greatest contributor, enabler even, to the ‘glory’ of The Information Age? Many make the case for the transistor. Its first application was to replace the huge, cumbersome and over-heating valves that powered early radios. Here’s an excerpt from

Investment boiler-room scammers appear to have a new guise. I sadly hear tales of similar such thievery driven by the current crypto craziness. Investing ‘experts’ keen to call you ASAP from an online enquiry. Promising arms length yet safe involvement. Super-returns guaranteed to come your way. Even if the contract

At the start of the year I blogged on an interesting business case example. The perhaps slightly unglamorous world of roadway maintenance yielded what looked like a sparkling example of the genre. Four months on, a remarkable proof has been delivered. England’s top digger manufacturer, JCB, trumpeted their new

Cambridge-based cybersecurity ‘unicorn’, Darktrace, was reported by mainstream media [https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/04/12/darktrace-going-public-in-5-billion-london-ipo-claiming-200-million-revenue/?sh=675a1af54d58] to be having its recent float ambitions potentially thwarted by scandal. Last year, Forbes magazine exposed the allegedly unsettling approach to work of a key figure. One since sentenced

[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9347353/Lifeline-lockdown-Want-small-business-countrys-biggest-website-Heres-how.html] The headline of the promotional article containing this testimonial was upfront; Want YOUR small business to be on the country’s biggest website? A smalltown deli had both expanded its location reach and ‘pivoted’ product offerings during lockdowns. They’d spent