I, like many other people, first learned of Mandela’s death via Twitter, where I saw a link to the BBC article published minutes after the event was confirmed. As the time passed, I watched Twitter closely, following the hashtags, reading comments, clicking through the news stories as they broke – it was the easiest and … Read more
Adrian Saville has been in the news lately. The founder and Chief Investment Officer of Cannon Asset Managers, a visiting professor at GIBS, was ranked by students as one of the world’s best, getting 857 Facebook “Likes” (the most) in a competition run by The Economist. And last month Peregrine announced it has acquired a controlling … Read more
There’s a cartoon doing the rounds on Facebook that looks something like this: a bank executive holding a big bag of money in one hand and a cigar in the other refers to a robber holding up a bank teller as an “amateur”. The scene encapsulates perfectly the shift in sentiment towards big business in … Read more
The newly listed Twitter has had an exciting first day out on the market. The Twitter IPO was priced at $26 a share, but opened at over $45 on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. After a volatile day of trading, the share closed at $44.90 – an impressive performance overall. But what is … Read more
Some financial services businesses are wide awake. At 17:00 New York time yesterday, New Media phenomenon Twitter tweeted that it has applied for a stock market listing. This morning, London-headquartered ETX Capital made a CFD available for trading in Twitter stock – which won’t be listed for months. The ETX Contract For Difference gives traders … Read more
The biggest story in Sports right now is speculation one of the most successful football managers in history will be fired. Arsenal’s long-serving French polymath Arsene Wenger is accused of having lost the plot. My research unearthed a fascinating tale and seemingly forgotten facts. Here’s Part One.
On Wednesday, I published a blog by Dr Rob Smorfitt where he took a swing at the incompetent organisers of an event he drove hundreds of kilometres to attend. Nhlanhla Damoyi (pictured) suggested on my Facebook page that the blog left him with more questions than answers. So he posed them. Here they are – with Rob Smorfitt’s response.
Derek Kreunen was the head boy of Mondeor High who started the innovative Ixchange around the time Moneyweb began back in 1997. Even though he now lives in the USA, we’ve kept in contact on and off ever since. His letter after hearing of my departure from Moneyweb deserves a wider audience. It inspires … Read more