Archive for January, 2009

BarCampBankLondon2 on Feb 14th

Dear Innovators,

It’s been a wild six months since the first London BarCampBank – the collapse of Lehman Brothers, sterling falling off a cliff along with the stock markets and even the man in the street talks about the credit crunch now – so we thought it was time for London’s Continue reading »

WeBank follow up

webankIn case readers of OpenBusiness missed the coverage coming out of the WeBank event last week have look at the excellent post on Nesta’s connect blog. Also keep an eye on the WeBank blog as we will keep on adding coverage Continue reading »

Webank | Are people replacing institutions?

OpenBusiness together with Nesta is organizing an event on p2p finance, which seems of particular interest, since financial institutions are having great difficulties (in all sorts of ways). It is also interesting, because while the interweb started a wave of financial innovation in the 90′s, this was mainly Continue reading »

Users turn to search engines for local info

A recent study in the US showed that search engines are the most popular destination for Americans looking for local information. Of the people surveyed, 31% try search engines followed by “print Yellow Pages (30%), internet Yellow Pages (19%) and local search sites (11%)”. The UK market tends to follow Continue reading »

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