We all remember Maradona and his cheating limbs, who probably played every match coked off his head until he finally got caught.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if he would be remembered for this picture, hoovering up a pile of cocaine with a vuvuzela, thus defining a corrupt man whose whole career was based on stupidity, vanity and some white powder that made him a better player than he ever really was.
The rectangle is my least favourite shape.
I am going to put my neck on the line. It might be the start of a revolution; then again, I might just be ridiculed for my crazy thinking and thrown in the Clive Sinclair school of C5 human wrongdoings.
Maybe it is my age that influences my absolute frustration and boredom with the rectangular device paradigm, which the human race has seemingly embraced for the long term. Continue reading
It’s a long watch and listen at nearly an hour, and if you know me, you’ve probably heard them all before, but here are some stories filmed by the excellent Silicon Real channel.
E-commerce analytics company Ometria has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from a group of high-profile investors and entrepreneurs, including Huddle founders Alastair Mitchell and Andy McLoughlin.
Founded in London little more than 12 months ago, Ometria has staff in Moscow and operates a real-time platform targeted at online retailers that provides analytics for ecommerce businesses; it can be integrated with ecommerce platforms such as Magento and Shopify. Continue reading
PayasUgym, the UK’s largest fitness network, has raised a £1.6 million funding round, led by Albion Ventures and MMC Ventures and again by existing investors, bringing the total investment to date of £3.5 million.
With 12 million ex-gym members in the UK (double the amount of gym members) PayasUgym offers flexible, discounted gym passes nationwide, disrupting the existing and onerous model of year-long subscriptions. Continue reading