Charles Jillings, CEO of Utilico, energized by strong economic momentum across Latin America. Watch the video here.
Yes, very poor judgement from Nick Candy especially.
His net worth is $2bn, but imagine what he'd be worth if he had good judgement.
If , indeed, Aaqua were the mystery 'client' behind the Aldebaron deal, I should add :-)
Looks like we may have dodged a bullet re: Aldebaron. Article behind a paywall, but here you go (courtesy of me :-)
"Nick Candy bids to freeze former partner's assets in row over tech investment.
Property developer sues Robert Bonnier and Dutch firm Aaqua for alleged fraud
Property developer Nick Candy has sought a worldwide asset freeze against a former business partner in a fraud case at the High Court. The 49-year-old investor is suing Robert Bonnier, a former dot-com multi-millionaire, and a tech company he controls for alleged fraud. Mr Bonnier is the largest investor in Aaqua, a Dutch social media company which Mr Candy backed last year. Mr Candy alleges he was misled about Aaqua’s prospects and has demanded its assets and those of Mr Bonnier are frozen. Mr Bonnier and the company said they “strongly refuted” the claims.
The High Court has granted the freeze, but ordered Mr Candy to “personally satisfy” a guarantee of up to £10m in order to apply the freeze. It said that if the asset freeze wrongly caused any loss to Mr Bonnier or Aaqua then Mr Candy may be personally responsible for compensation.
Mr Candy’s company has until 4pm on Monday to put up the money. If it does not, the freeze could be quashed.
Aaqua took a £6.8m stake in Audioboom, an AIM-listed podcasting company in which Mr Candy is the second-largest investor, while Mr Candy received shares in Mr Bonnier’s company. Mr Bonnier made a £188m bid for Audioboom last year and received the support of Mr Candy. It was ultimately rejected by Audioboom’s board, however. The market valuation is now only £131m after a 44pc slide so far this year. A spokesman for Mr Bonnier said the asset freeze was an attempt to cause “maximum damage to Aaqua’s business and hardship to its employees”.
The spokesman added its contract with Mr Candy “perfectly clearly stated” that its investment relied on its own due diligence. The case continues."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/08/21/nick-candy-bids-freeze-former-partners-assets-row-tech-investment/
Courtesy RJ @Twitter
Comments:
James McKiernan
British Telecom - Head of Midlands Key Corporate Sales
"Love this Steve. All business aside, this is an amazing programme and yourself and DPD should be proud of what you're doing here."
Sarah Walker
Cisco - Managing Director, Enterprise
Chair Of The Board Of Trustees - Greater Manchester Academies Trust
"This is fantastic Steve, kudos to yourself and the team at DPD for your great Leadership in this area"
Daren Houghton
British Telecom - Major Business and Public Sector Account Manager
"Fantastic work Steve and Sophie"
Steve Mills - IT Director at DPDUK / Ambassador for Inclusion
"This is going to be one amazing partnership. The Inspirational Learning Group are leading the way in helping employers develop people with disabilities on their career journey it’s gonna be awesome."
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/steve-mills-3944447_edtech-education-careerseducation-activity-6966471614381105152-uwo4?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web
Times of India Article:
"Edtech-based learning can give a new direction to the traditional mindset about career and growth.
EdTech platforms can close the skill set gap between available and existing workers and must be quickly established nationwide. This sector can be a vital catalyst for achieving the goals and making the ecosystem highly efficient and making the young generation highly skilled and empowered.
The demand for tech-savvy skilled talent is at an all-time high with the growth in young professionals looking for and expecting flexible employment opportunities supporting these initiatives even more. Investment in learning, human capital, and training is required as a vital pillar of the nation’s development.
Due to the upskilling options offered by these platforms, students and professionals have a better chance of landing a suitable job and advancing in their careers."
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/edtech-based-learning-can-give-a-new-direction-to-the-traditional-mindset-about-career-and-growth/
Courtesy of Chris Akers @Twitter
Those links all go to the same home page. You'll have to strip off the date at the end of the link if you want to look at the updated individual web pages.
There's a load of development work happening to the Veative website. The XML sitemap shows updates to 13 web pages today alone. Gearing up for the launch?
URL Images Last Mod.
https://veative.com/stem/ 7 2022-08-19 06:22 +00:00
https://veative.com/vr-content/ 1 2022-08-19 06:36 +00:00
https://veative.com/ell/ 5 2022-08-19 06:49 +00:00
https://veative.com/virtual-tours/ 0 2022-08-19 09:47 +00:00
https://veative.com/special-ed/ 1 2022-08-19 10:17 +00:00
https://veative.com/home_old/ 0 2022-08-19 10:42 +00:00
https://veative.com/vrcreate/ 5 2022-08-19 10:56 +00:00
https://veative.com/platform/ 2 2022-08-19 11:35 +00:00
https://veative.com/hardware/ 2 2022-08-19 12:28 +00:00
https://veative.com/oculus/ 0 2022-08-19 12:40 +00:00
https://veative.com/future/ 0 2022-08-19 12:49 +00:00
https://veative.com/getting-started/ 0 2022-08-19 13:14 +00:00
https://veative.com/case-studies/ 2 2022-08-19 13:24 +00:00
The more I look at the LaunchMyCareer platform, the more I realise what a fantastic resource this is for students. Look at the following example. This is a page of information regarding a career as an Aerospace Engineer.
https://www.launchmycareer.com/careers/aerospace-engineering-and-operations-technologists-and-technicians#WhatsInvolved
For this one career choice, it gives you:-
- A reasonable in-depth description of what the career is all about
- An accompanying industry related video to watch
- What qualifications you’ll need
- Bullet point Tasks of Aerospace Engineer
- Progression Routes
- Where to Study
- What to Study
There’s loads of information on this one career option.
All the above information is available across 830 careers.
(I actually checked this number by downloading the XML sitemap for the Career Explorer web page. There are indeed 830 different ULR’s for different career options)
I can only imagine the man hours needed to put this together.
Not surprised Ankur said the initial response had been ‘tremendous’.
I'll think you'll find that RJ re-tweeted this post. It's not his work.
For those interested, I’m putting together a pricing document for the various earning streams for Dev Clever, which are, LMC / LYC / Veative / You-Learn / TILG. Here is the pricing structure for the LMC platform in India. Will update the unpublished pricing information as and when I can.
1. Free Basic Resource for Schools
2. Career Success Membership (Optional) £35 per student
- 1 Live Counselling Session
- Unlimited Access to Career Database (830 Careers)
- Exclusive Access to World’s First Career Metaverse
3. Career Explorer Premium (Optional) - Pricing not yet published
- Includes Career Success Membership+
- Emerging Career Opportunities
- Talk to International Career Coaches
4. Three Live Counselling Plans Available
Pathway (Grades 5-10) £100
- 3 Live Counselling Sessions
- Stream Discovery
- Self-Discovery
- Skill building course recommendations
- Profile Building
- Career Accelerator Plan
Pursuit (Grades 11-12) £185
- All Above +
- 5 Live Counselling Sessions
- College and Course Discovery
- Post Application Assistance
- College Application
Personify (Graduate and Above) £250
- All Above +
- 5 Live Counselling Sessions
- SWOT Analysis
- CV Review
- Guidance on Education Loan
- Knowing about Leading Employers
- SOP/LOR/Essay Support
- Career Success Plan
5. The Learning Hub
Virtual Reality Courses
- Examples
- Veative STEM VR £500
- Veative ELL VR £500
- Veative Premium Bundle VR £600
6. Study Abroad
- Pricing not yet published
Note: According to July RNS, there are 1 million students with access to this platform. However, in the more recent Alan Greenberg interview, Alan states that there are now 3.5 million students with access. It’s been introduced in 2,000 schools so far, out of a possible 70,000 NISA schools (Jul RNS). It will also be rolled out to 2.6m students at approx 6,000 CSC Academy Centres. If the 'rumored' Autumn launch happens, then many more millions of students/parents will be made aware of the LaunchMyCareer platform.
1. Free Basic Resource for Schools
2. Career Success Membership £35 per student (optional)
- 1 Live Counselling Session
- Unlimited Access to Career Database (830 Careers)
- Exclusive Access to World’s First Career Metaverse
Excepting that the Russian market might be problematic at the moment :)
If you have a look at their 'Case Studies' page, you can see that Veative's VR STEM library already exists in educational institutions in Columbia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, UAE, India, Canada, Japan, Russia, Sri Lanka (and USA, I assume)
https://veative.com/case-studies/
Just to add, Veative's STEM Library is available in:
Arabic, English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Chinese (Hong Kong), Russian, Hindi, Japanese
Quite a few markets to aim at then.
“According to Morgan Stanley, the #metaverse in China is estimated to become an $8 TRILLION market.
A large portion of this valuation will be the result of how the metaverse will change and, perhaps, replace the current models of digital commerce, e-Commerce, and online entertainment, marked by the proliferation of 3D, VR, AR, XR creating more immersive experiences.“
The whole Veative VR stem library is available in 9 languages, including Chinese.
CEO of Phygitech Learning, Ashok Mehta, is also Chief Business Officer of Veative Labs. He has a very impressive CV.
"He managed the implementation of educational interventions in over 25 thousand institutions that empowered more than 17 million learners and educators."
"Participated in a no of brainstorming sessions on PPP and ICT policy planning at Ministry of Education, represented industry views and challenges at grassroots. Was also a member of working group to revise ICT framework 2017 of ministry of education, Govt of India."
Phygitech are promoting/selling Veative's VR Stem library. The Regional Sales Manager of Phygitech was formerley Regional Service Manager at EdTech giant LEAD School.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/phygitech-learning_virtualreality-learning-virtual-activity-6963757456820695040-R36B?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web
Careful @Bagzzz, you're in danger of saying something positive about the company with your "Sounds promising".
Our Australian partners, edgedVR, demonstrating Veative's VR content at EduTECH today.
Wikipedia - "EduTECH is well-known to be the largest education event in the Southern Hemisphere and APAC region."
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/edgedvr_students-teachers-australia-activity-6963287581711093760-3pQH?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web
Yes, barnard, I'm clocking up a few air miles here :-)
Remember this from Apr 2022:
"April 19, 2022 – DPVR, a manufacturer and provider of virtual reality (VR) devices, has recently announced that it has entered a cooperation agreement with Edutech Expert, a Poland-based provider of educational products and services, and Veative, a provider of immersive learning solutions, to promote educational VR headsets to more than 10,000 schools across Poland."
https://www.auganix.org/dpvr-partners-with-edutech-expert-and-veative-to-promote-educational-vr-headsets-to-10000-schools-across-poland/
It's part of the Polish Govt's initiative - 03 Aug 22 Govt Announcement
"We are changing Polish schools with the Laboratories of the Future
More and more Polish students benefit from the Laboratories of the Future program, which we implement in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science. By the end of July, almost 14,000 primary schools have already applied! Thanks to this, more and more children and adolescents can benefit from, among others, from 3D printers, robots or VR glasses."
The VR side of this initiative is being lead by the Polish EdTech company "Edutech Expert", promoted under the eduVR brand name. Pretty much the entire content of eduVR is Veative's interactive, curriculum-aligned, VR content for STEM. If you look at the following Edutech Expert webpage, you can see 1,3 & 5 year licensing options of Veative VR Content.
1 Year - 2,550 PLN
3 Year - 7.650 PLN
5 Year - 12,750 PLN
(2,550 PLN = £450)
https://edutech.expert/pl/blog/uczniowie-z-warszawy-dzieki-okularom-vr-wybrali-sie-w-podroz-do-goracego-dubaju-1659539865.html
(Scroll down the page to see prices)
Promising, when you consider that almost 14,000 Polish primary schools have already signed up for this initiative.