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Making video clips for youtube on early iphone is more difficult than on smart phones which have two cameras.

Contrast between publicly owned companies and privately owned. Role of private equity and influence of management buyouts. Short-termism in analyst valuations of companies. Pressures on boards and senior teams for quarterly profit forecasts. Cultural contrast. Family owned business tends to take a longer term view. Different priorities and agendas. ipos can create huge new pressures on business leaders. Analysts should take a longer term view since it is impossible to run a business quarter by quarter on key performance indicators which apply only to the ...

Keynote conference speaker at the recent invitation-only 7th Swiss Re Asia Forum, Dr Patrick Dixon, considered Europe’s leading futurist, shares his irrefutable belief that: “Either we take hold of the future or the future will take hold of us.”

Smoking has fallen in response to government action but we have far to go. It is still the case that 6% of young people in the UK are already addicted to smoking by the time they are 15.  Most of the 250,000 new smokers a year are under 18.  Every one of them will die 10 years early as a direct result unless they find a way to kick the habit which is notoriously hard.  Here are three actions which should be taken immediately.