Tuesday night saw ITV launch its latest entrepreneur-orientated programme – titled Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway.
Presented by the ubiquitous Richard Madeley, it can be compared with the BBC’s Dragon’s Den to a degree in that it sees various budding entrepreneurs appear over seven weeks before a range of high-profile businesspeople to try and win a million pounds of their money. (more…)
The man who created possibly the world’s best-known online encyclopaedia, which allows users to update it themselves and thus contains a staggeringly wide and frequently-updated range of information, has teamed up with Amazon to create the Wikiasari (Japanese for ‘quick rummaging search’) project. (more…)
The increasing battle for a share of the blog search market is moving in Google’s favour, as new figures show the search giant is gaining a larger share of the market.
Google’s Blog Search, which trawls the internet for blog sites as opposed to any other type of website, has been particularly successful in the past few months and according to metrics firm Hitwise, it has now become the top blog search site in the world. (more…)
A potential rival to YouTube has arrived in the form of a new social video tagging service from Gotuit, which gives people the facility to cut and tag any online video from any video-providing source.
The indexing services and navigation technology provider has launched SceneMaker, which can be used to take any online video and work with it using the appropriate web application.
Entrepreneurs often start their careers young, but many won’t get the break they’re seeking until they are well into their professional life. Indeed, many entrepreneurs do not have the experience or contacts to successfully strike out on their own until they have been working for a concerted period of time.
One of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs is to be rewarded for his efforts by his hometown university.
Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen has announced that it is to honour Larry Kinch, an oil entrepreneur and technologist who has been instrumental in the development of the world’s oil industry over the years.
Mr Kinch is to be presented with an honorary degree from the university, which will make him a Doctor of Technology.
Mr Kinch is a great believer in the importance of technology in driving growth and moving the sector forward. On the announcement of his honorary degree from Robert Gordon University, he explained: “Technology is actually the great provider for this industry but many people fail to understand that.” (more…)
There has been much debate over recent years about the ’skills gap’ evident between universities and several areas of the business world - with last summer seeing a particularly concerning set of figures suggest that the IT industry is being particularly hit. It is claimed that university graduates are as much as two years behind the skills they need when entering a business, so firms themselves, and their potential employees, need assistance to bridge this apparently widening divide - but on whom does the onus lie, and what exactly can be done? (more…)
With publicity about businesses’ alleged exploitation of workers or undesirable practices becoming more widespread than ever, it is increasingly useful for a firm to make efforts to be seen as ‘ethical’ - and to bear out its promises with positive actions.
Consumers are increasingly savvy about environmental issues, as well as those involving the exploitation of people who produce firms’ products. Questions will inevitably be asked about how a product is produced, what from, where it came from and what the economic situations are of the people who made it. Therefore many firms, as well as ensuring that their own activities are up to the mark, are actively looking to change the way things are in the wider world. (more…)
News that a user of the increasingly-popular online Second Life environment has become a millionaire through trading virtual property on the site has sparked huge interest about the entrepreneurial possibilities of such virtual trading.
German schoolteacher Ailin Graef, who goes by the avatar name of Anshe Chung on the meta-environment of Second Life, has become a millionaire by investing a mere US$9.95 a month in virtual real estate and then selling it on. She now has a net worth of over $1 million. It may seem nigh-on implausible that selling something which does not physically exist can lead to such riches being gained, but people with a keen eye for business are increasingly becoming drawn to an environment in which sufficient hours and canny acquisitions have shown they can reap rewards. (more…)
Mini CV
- Founded a tennis academy at age 16
- Ran Siemens Nixdorf’s UK computer business
- Started Phones International Group in 1998
- Appears regularly on television and owns a portfolio of assets
Millionaire Peter Jones is one of the business minds on BBC television show Dragon’s Den and has interests in the mobile telecommunications, leisure, media and property sectors. (more…)
