British/Eurpean companies can’t help being largely parochial, the exceptions like Moshi Monsters and Moo prove the observation, just as the likes of Last.fm and Tweetdeck prove the lack of independent global and persistent innovative ambition – do you think American or Chinese start-up founders with ambitions to own their segment would have sold out so readily!

There’s a certain lack of larger business vision, a typical short-termism, further hampered by investors.

Kind regards,

Shakir Razak