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After it was found out that Facebook had corroborated with an analytics company to effectively steal people’s privacy details without permission, thousands of people left Facebook. They were making a point. They were angry. They posted on Twitter, telling everyone who would lessen that they were sticking the middle finger at Mark Zuckerberg’s evil company. They wouldn’t touch Facebook again, but they would still post photos on Instagram. You would see a healthier side with great photographs without evil companies stealing your rights. People nodded in agreement. “Screw them! Screw Mark Zuckerberg! Facebook is evil!”, the keyboard warriors chanted in their offices, cars and homes. Hurrah for Instagram, that independent organisation where there are ONE BILLION users every month up to June 2018, and 500 million active daily users . In terms of photos shared, 50 billion photos (to September 2018) have shared. The number of photos of people’s dogs, adventures and j...

THE UNLUCKIEST TURNAROUND CEO We all love the turnaround story. Tiger Woods is the ‘comeback story’. But really, it’s about a man – one of the biggest brands Nike’s had since Michael Jordan – who went from hero to zero in the matter of a few years and came back to win The Masters. Everyone cried a bit as he celebrated. And in the business world, there have been plenty of tales of 180s.   There’s Apple, who nearly hit bankruptcy before Steve Jobs came back and they became the behemoth ‘fruit company’ that you see today . Despite his ‘Marmite’ personality, he created a product that’s so worshipped that it’s been called a cult by one expert . Then there was the book of superheroes in Marvel, which went bankrupt before finding itself again, and then being bought by Disney and has produced a string of box-office smashing hits, like the upcoming Avengers: Endgame, that's expected to make well over $1 billion. . That was the sort of tale a comic book writ...