What does the future hold for an industry that is already seen as the future today? This week we’ve painted a pretty compelling argument to say that gaming is the overlord of the Innovation world. OK strong words, but there is no doubt that gaming is an area that has grown massively over the years [...]

As you know from yesterdays piece, it’s all fun and gaming at Innovatrs this week… Do you know what? I think I’m the only male of my age group that doesn’t own a PlayStation 3. I haven’t taken a straw poll of the entire world to reach that conclusion, but it’s become pretty clear over [...]

There’s some big news over at Internet juggernaut Google. Co-founder Larry Page is taking over from Eric Shmidt as CEO. So why is Page only just becoming CEO of the company he co-founded in 1998? Well he was only young, wasn’t he? Finally, Larry Page is ready to take over the reigns at Google from [...]

When a business is facing a slowdown, is it right to go back to your roots or is the grass greener elsewhere? History is full of companies that have gone back for seconds with regards to successful former CEOs. If a former CEO shows the right qualities for the job and the kind of insight [...]

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. [...]

Were you forever being told as a child to ‘get your head out of the clouds’? You may well have just been preparing for your startup… Cloud computing is a relatively new development. It was seen as crazy a few years ago to set up a business based around this type of computing. The cloud [...]

Why do so many successful entrepreneurs drop out of college? One answer – IMPATIENCE! If he can, maybe you could too. You just better have an idea worth more than a college degree. It isn’t Voodoo. Ooh.

Pitching ideas is becoming an art, here’s how the pros do it. Pitching is the art of transforming your audience into stakeholders. Some say that the audience is not buying your idea – it’s buying you. Which doesn’t necessarily make things any easier. We stumbled over a great collection of videos from the masters of pitching, [...]

Microsoft’s brand new Zune HD is a big step forwards and packs some pretty innovative features. If they keep this up the next version may even give the iPhone/iPod Touch a run for its money. So where’s the Microsoft Tablet?

“I looove Microsoft! Sorry, I promised I wouldn’t do that. Anyways, first up I’d like to thank the folks at The Daily Chive for letting me on the show – er, Web. I mean Bing, er blog, whatever. Anyway, I know you’all wanna hear me bang, Bing (sorry did it again) on about our brand [...]

A former editor of Windows magazine, Mike Elgan, illustrated the difference between ordinary brands and charismatic brands in two succinct sentences: “Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is famous for a crazy video in which he yells, “I—love—this—company!” In the case of Apple, it’s the customers who shout that.” Charismatic brands use Art-in-Product (TM) and bridge customer experience to vision. Design [...]