Watch out on Wednesday for an announcement from BSkyB that it will be closing Open, its interactive home shopping channel. The failure of Open raises questions about the viability of interactive television as a commercial medium.
The faces of some of the young entrepreneurs were suitably red when they crept back to their seats following some well-meaning advice from the presenter, Dasar CEO Alex Vieux. Each VC then posed one or two questions before deciding whether they...
The gains come from closing the inefficient. Yet this is the point at which I want to start asking more questions that so far go unanswered. That is another of the intriguing questions that are opened up.
Enrique Salem, CEO of Brightmail (now senior VP Symantec, post acquisition), answers: "One of the most challenging aspects of fighting spam is that everyone's definition of spam is different, as such closing down a site which you believe is in the...
Earlier this year eBay faced criticism for being slow to shut down sales of pirate software and for not acting proactively on closing such sales. Ask questions. Contact sellers with as many questions as you like regarding the quality of the item.
An LSE spokeswoman said, towards the close of business yesterday there was a technical issue within Infolect - the primary source of the LSE's real-time market data - which affected the ability of member companies to fully participate in...