James Silver is a journalist, editor & screenwriter. As a reporter, he specialises in tech, media and business. Formerly at BBC News, he has written for, among others, The Guardian, The Observer and WIRED.
The advertising technology company hopes digital ads will continue to fund great journalism By James Silver, The Guardian, Sunday 16 June 2013 18.08 BST
Brian O’Kelley is an unlikely saviour of newspapers.
Submitted by James Silver on June 6, 2013
The fast-growing P2P lodging marketplace is clearly eating into the business of hotels and, according to some arguments, is even starting to impact property values.
30th May 2012.
By James Silver
Back in February 2009, Kristian Hiiemaa, then 29, bootstrapped Erply, a business-software startup, with three other developers in Tallinn, Estonia.
By James Silver.
24th February 2012.
School number 1409 lies about ten kilometres north of Moscow city centre, in an exclusive enclave of gated communities.
AUTOPIA
05 JULY 11
by JAMES SILVER
Genevieve Bell (above) is an anthropologist whose people-watching informs next-generation computer chips.
SILICON ROUNDABOUT
07 JANUARY 11
by JAMES SILVER
David Cameron wants to boost London’s startups by building a “Tech City” on the Olympic site.
DATA
05 AUGUST 2010
by JAMES SILVER
24 hours into his deployment in Haiti, as part of the Red Cross’s first rotation after January’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake flattened much of Port-au-Prince, Kjeld Jensen was busy making