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“Entrepreneurship begins at not taking the world around you for granted”
How did you encounter entrepreneurship during your childhood? That’s a good and interesting question. After all, what is entrepreneurship? Most people would think of starting a company, but to me entrepreneurship is something much more fundamental still. Entrepreneurship begins at not taking the world around you for granted. Seeing opportunities for improvement and then trying…
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‘Ban on downloading is pointless’
The ban on downloading from illegal sources doesn’t do much good in the Netherlands. That’s what jurist and technology expert Danny Mekić told the Dutch news agency ANP. In order to enforce this ban, the government would need to monitor all internet data traffic. That would soon lead to privacy issues, Mekić thinks. Furthermore, to…
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Carrying on is no longer good enough
Chat apps are cutting into the profits of China Mobile, who blamed their first drop in profits in 14 years on competition from the likes of Tencent’s WeChat messenger (FT, March 21). China Mobile is not the first and certainly not the last major company that will see the landscape changing as a result of…