‘Uncomfortable reading’: UK tech growth drags as number of new companies falls by 11 per cent August 5, 2024 The capital registered 6,170 new tech companies in the second quarter of 2024, down from 7,253 in the first quarter and a slight one per cent decline from the same period last year.
Spring Budget 2024: UK Silicon Valley dreams far off say tech bosses March 7, 2024 Some tech bosses have been left wanting after Jeremy Hunt's Spring Budget 2024 missed the mark by their standards.
Time to bolster talent pipeline to make UK a tech superpower in age of AI October 3, 2023 The UK is losing over £1.5bn per year to skill shortages and to become a world leader in tech and AI, we must invest in training the future workforce.
Musicmagpie share price soars after strong results on Black Friday tech sales December 14, 2023 Musicmagpie shares soared as much as 24 per cent on Thursday after the second-hand smartphone seller said it saw a record Black Friday.
London’s ‘strength reflected across UK’ as it leads record-breaking year for tech start-ups February 27, 2024 The UK has seen a record-breaking jump in new tech start-ups, new research finds, with London taking the wheel as the nation’s influential tech hub. The number of new tech companies in the UK jumped 22 per cent to 51,017 last year, according to analysis by audit, tax and consulting firm RSM UK, up from [...]
Anne Boden: ‘Things haven’t got much better for women in tech in 40 years’ March 14, 2024 Former Starling Bank chief Anne Boden sits down with City A.M. to discuss her early career, sexism in the City and life beyond the bank.
Tech entrepreneur jailed for 15 years after rape and sexual assault guilty verdict December 2, 2023 A multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur has been jailed for 15 years for committing two rapes and a sexual assault. Lawrence Jones, 55, was convicted in January of sexually assaulting a female employee on a business trip in 2013. Jurors in a second trial found him guilty last month of drugging and raping two women decades earlier [...]
The big beasts of banking, supermarkets and tech are behind our productivity slump July 20, 2023 Big monopolies stifle innovation through their total control of market power and patents. We need to break this vicious cycle if we want our productivity back, writes Paul Ormerod
Empowering Social Mobility: New college creating opportunities in Tech May 15, 2023 Watching and mentoring a struggling schoolboy through his A-levels gave Mark Smith, founder of Ada, the National College of Digital Skills, the idea of starting up his own college. From opening the Tottenham-based college in 2016 with around 30 students, in 2023 Ada – named after Ada Lovelace, a computing pioneer, will provide education for [...]
Google vs the US Government: Tech giant in biggest antitrust trial in decades September 12, 2023 Google will confront a threat to its dominant search engine beginning on Tuesday when federal regulators launch an attempt to dismantle its internet empire in the biggest US antitrust trial in a quarter century. Over the next 10 weeks, federal lawyers and state attorneys general will try to prove Google rigged the market in its [...]