Facebook's acquisitions of WhatsApp and Oculus means that the leading companies in two up-and-coming industries – messaging and virtual reality – have already sold out, albeit at very nice price premiums.
The industry message to government is to call for smarter regulation and lower taxes, in line with Sir Ian Wood's industry review last year.
[What takes up the most time?] 50%, industry message, analyst reviews and meeting aligned strategic partners; 30%, business networking, brand awareness and finding key people to hire; 20%, meeting growth capital and strategic investors.
About why the industry message -- that it's harmful to our nation to limit carbon emissions -- ignores our precious children, and discounts their future.
But while the intention is good (a solid night of sleep has innumerable health benefits), the industry and messaging around it can backfire.
It is not clear whether how-to-quit and anti-industry messages which feature high levels of emotion and testimonials could be similarly effective as the most effective negative health effects messages.
Swift is a cooperative owned by the financial industry that supplies messaging services and software to 7,000 financial institutions in 190 countries.
We raised an eyebrow over the rash of matching price hikes sweeping the text messaging industry.
The lucrative nature of that revenue increase cannot be appreciated without doing something that T-Mobile chose not to do, which is to talk about whether its costs rose as the industry's messaging volume grew tenfold.
