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Napoleon Hill talks about his meeting with Andrew Carnegie
The regulation of banks under Basel III, the new global rulebook for banks, is losing credibility. Lex's Vincent Boland and Richard Stovin-Bradford discuss the difficulties faced by regulators and through regulation.

PTT Exploration & Production, Thailand's national oil company, has trumped Shell's bid for the Aim-listed energy company Cove, which has an attractive gas field stake off Mozambique. Lex's Nikki Tait and Vincent Boland discuss who might win.

Accor, Europe’s largest hotels group by number of rooms, has sold its underperforming Motel 6 chain of US budget hotels to Blackstone in a $1.9bn deal. Lex's Julia Grindell and Vincent Boland say there are question marks over whether the move is a good one for shareholders.

Ryanair's profits after tax climbed 25 per cent to €503m but the low-cost Irish airline warned this would be difficult to repeat due to the economic turmoil in Europe. Lex's Vincent Boland and Nikki Tait discuss the difficulties facing the airline industry.

The problems undermining Spanish banks, particularly the regional ones, are finally being taken seriously in Spain. Lex's Vincent Boland and Richard Stovin-Bradford discuss whether the action being proposed by the country's finance minister will lead to sufficient remedies.


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There are advantages and disadvantages of being one of the earlier companies in a very early market. While new companies get to watch, observe, and create their own insights based on product features incumbents develop, we get to constantly introspect on “what has worked” based on real data, real feedback, and being out in the market talking to partners.
The second screen space is going to be a multi-billion dollar market. Just last week, Tim Cook announced that 67M iPads were sold in less than two years. It took more than 24 years to sell that many Macs. With the growing trend of second screen activity (i.e. using tablets while you watch TV), there is bound to be major disruption in the TV industry.
In less than three decades, the mobile phone has gone from being a status symbol to being a ubiquitous technology that facilitates almost every interaction in our daily lives. One month after the world’s population topped 7 billion in October 2011, the GSM Association announced that mobile SIM cards had reached 6 billion. A 2009 study in India illustrated that every 10 percent increase in mobile penetration leads to a 1.2 percent increase in GDP.
Yet patterns of mobile phone use in developing countries are vastly different from what you see on the streets of New York, San Francisco, and Berlin. This is a market underserved by technologists and startups. This is where the majority of future growth lies, and Silicon Valley has yet to realize the huge economic opportunities for network operators, handset developers, and mobile startups. Where are these opportunities? 1 member
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