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What is the company of the future like?
How do young startups manage to take over the world at a dazzling pace while trusted, established companies are going bankrupt? What developments would an entrepreneur or director need to keep track of in order to act at the right moment and seize the opportunities? How radically do you have to change to still be…
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Privacy: protect it or you’ll lose it
Serial entrepreneur and technology innovation expert Danny Mekić has outspoken views about data protection and privacy. ‘Privacy and security are not each other’s enemies. They go together hand in hand. And without privacy there is no security anyway.’ Danny Mekić was 12 years old when he started working as a volunteer for the newly launched…
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Two days a month offline: really alone with your own thoughts
What would it be like to go without mobile phones, computers and the internet for a day? A lot of people wouldn’t really know how to answer that question any more: for so long now we’ve been using all the conveniences of the digital world, offered to us by the simplifying algorithms of quoted American…
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“The ad blocker is a godsend”
“We’ve entered an age where more and more standard products are becoming obsolete. Marketeers need to ask themselves: is my product even relevant these days? This is their challenge: how can you still really surprise individual customers?” Being in touch with the customers “People have become so individualistic that it’s becoming less and less effective…
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Why the popularity of ad blockers is the advertising industry’s own fault
Ten years ago, I moved out of my parents’ house. The first thing I bought was a NO/NO sticker, which people in the Netherlands can put on their letterboxes to indicate they’re not interested in junk mail. I put it on mine with a happy smile. Isn’t that wonderful, I thought, having the power to…
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Thumbs up for a ‘dislike’ button on Facebook?
On a Facebook post saying someone’s cat died, clicking the ‘like’ button doesn’t seem appropriate. But soon now, users will be able to show their sympathies without having to write a comment. Facebook users have been asking for an “I don’t like this” button for years, but until recently, the platform never wanted to indulge…