Archives: Mandy De Waal

  • Microsoft’s queasy reinvention routine

  • Icasa in crisis

    As communications technology becomes more complex and regulatory processes more dense, Icasa is in more of a mess than ever.
  • The copyright wars

  • Seeing right through government

  • Lies and lying liars

    What is the role of the media and advertising in manipulating public sentiment?

  • Wake up to social media

    With most consumers experiencing life in a mobile or online matrix, it’s just dumb for brands to ignore social media.
  • Take that, China

    A gutsy emerging markets internet strategy has paid off very handsomely for Naspers.
  • The psychology of fraud

    There’s a fine, but clear line that divides good and evil.
  • Future forward

    THE WORLD LIVES IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE FUTURISTS FIND IT DIFFICULT TO PREDICT WHAT MAY HAPPEN AFTER LUNCH. IN TURBULENT AND UNPREDICTABLE TIMES, BRAINSTORM ASKS TECHNOLOGY EXPERTS WHAT’S LIKELY TO HAPPEN IN 2009.

  • Bribery and corruption

    Why did graft become just another line item at a world class company?

  • Wireless warrior

    Henk Kleynhans` dream is to blanket Africa with the cheapest, fastest and most stable internet access possible.
  • Everyone loves Vinny

    Dream big or go home is Vinny Lingham`s mantra, and it seems to be working.
  • The psychology of success

    How do you take a flailing multinational IT company and turn it around? It may surprise you to hear that the woman who turned T-Systems around is a psychologist.
  • Do you have faith?

    Insidious content spammers are choking the internet. Only a return to value will restore the balance.
  • Googleocracy

    Google harvests information and tracks human behaviour at a ferocious pace. But growth may become its Achilles heel.
  • The leviathan

    Attention Google: you cannot possess power. Rather, it possesses you.
  • Show me the money

    Smart citizen journalists and bloggers create an economy out of self- publishing.
  • Being Vincent Maher

    Some of the responses to questions about Vincent Maher are: "Vincent is a rare combination of innovation and execution, idealism and realism, chaos and efficiency, intelligence and charm. While he has many exceptional characteristics, it's his ability to cross over in this way that makes him unique and interesting."
  • Power to the people

    Social media is subverting business power by giving every man and woman a voice.
  • Symphony of - possibility

    Ben Zander, acclaimed conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, professor at the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music, and celebrated speaker and author, heads to South Africa to teach local leaders about the art of possibility.

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