Things that made my day this week. The top thing would be catching up with old friends. ‘Old is gold’ as they say. I got to go to the Bicester Village outlet centre (as guide rather than shopper) and the contrast between the restaurants just outside the village was an eye-opener to my foreign guests. […]
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Benedict Evans on ten-year future predictions (well as good as anyone can) YouGov | Who is on top in the Nike vs. Adidas battle? – UK only data The bitcoin drugs trade is highly centralised | FT Alphaville – looks that the cryptocurrency bubble could burst pronto How an unknown Chinese phone maker became No […]
Quote of the day
“I think the future of television is more fragmentation, the bundle has no more elasticity in it.” – Barry Diller. This explains everything from ManUnited TV to the new channels that Amazon has launched as Prime add-ons in the UK and Germany yesterday. Media has been driving an increasing share of household spend over the […]
Mobile payment mania
I use my Apple Pay as a stopgap measure for when I have left my wallet on my desk rather than as a main form of payment. I use PayPal mainly because eBay doesn’t allow other options. So I find it puzzling that the likes of Tesco really thinks that this payment app (and others […]
Oprah time: Heaven’s Bankers – inside the hidden world of Islamic finance by Harris Irfan
I was given Heaven’s Bankers to read as a friend. I can’t say I had thought that much about Islamic finance before. I knew that it had a couple of patches of ‘heat’ behind it in the banking sector. One was in the late 1990s. It then took a back seat post-911 and took off […]