I chaired a dinner this week on speeds, feeds and latency in the City’s Capital Markets. Fascinating stuff all about the latest Multilateral Trade Facilities (MTFs) and how Chi-X and Turquoise claim to be ripping up the old exchange models by processing trades in 2 milliseconds. During the course of the conversation, I found something…
Having spent the last month virtually non-stop talking about the doom and gloom of the stock markets and the financial industry, I thought I’d be much more positive today and talk about technology. I grew up in the technology industry and love technology. For years, I’ve been an avid fan and user of PC’s, mobiles…
My friend at WaMu told me that, when they reached crisis point, just before JP Morgan picked them up for a song, the internet bloggers, media and chatroom pundits made it ten times worse. Certainly, the connected world means that news travels fast, both good and bad news, so it intrigued me to pick up…
I haven’t written much about Facebook lately because we’re all familiar with it now, although you may not be familiar with the fact that Wells Fargo have recently launched Stagecoach Island, their virtual world, in Facebook. But I’m more interested in the fact that David Hasselhoff has launched his very own version of Facebook. Why?…
Social networks have created new forms of money already and, as I spend more time playing with these virtual currencies, I can see how they may become the future of money, from a retail and consumer viewpoint anyway. For example, last November, I wrote about the threats of money laundering in virtual worlds. At the…
Social networks have created new forms of money already and, as I spend more time playing with these virtual currencies, I can see how they may become the future of money, from a retail and consumer viewpoint anyway. For example, last November, I wrote about the threats of money laundering in virtual worlds. At the…
