Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.