In a recent survey of more than 1,000 entrepreneurs, from 75 countries in our Crowd, we found only 9.1% were women. So where are all the female entrepreneurs then? Oprah Winfrey and Anita Roddick were the only names mentioned when we asked which entrepreneurs inspired our Crowd – and they only made up 2.3% of the vote. [...]

Once a week, we are going to look at up and coming startups making a wave in the world of Innovation. This week it’s the turn of search engine Blekko – that’s right, another search engine… So we’ve already got the juggernaut of Internet searches in Google and the dying breed, yet still pretty large [...]

As the new year approaches, we look back on 2010 and ask: Who have been the stand out startups? About.me: About.me was bought out by Internet giant A.O.L, less than week after the year-old company went live. The site serves as a homepage for a person’s online profiles, which guarantees it a huge potential market. [...]

Following on from my article on the future for ailing social network MySpace, another flawed Facebook foe has been in the press again….Enter Bebo. Launched in 2005, Bebo was the younger sibling to the bigger and more successful Facebook. It had its place in the market, being a more customisable, child to teen targeted version [...]

The big digital media news last week was AOL buying TechCrunch for somewhere between $25 Million and $40 Million. Sadly AOL’s M&A track record isn’t that good. Merging with Time Warner and swallowing Bebo are 2 classic examples.

Yesterday saw the 10th anniversary of Nasdaq’s exuberant peak. Press abounded. Today, a decade ago, saw the start of it’s demise. Nasdaq is still less than half of its value at the peak. Yet its irrational exuberance created todays Web and tech titans. Amazon, Ebay, Yahoo, AOL, Salesforce.com, PayPal, Google and on. It triggered the broadband [...]