Tech Weekly: UK Apple Card en route? And crypto exchange Gemini’s Head of UK on FCA nightmare March 25, 2022 On this episode of Tech Weekly, Nasson, Lily, and Charlie go through the latest in the worlds of crypto and fintech. Lily chats to Blair Halliday, Head of UK crypto exchange Gemini — they go through why crypto exchanges will be at risk if they don’t register in time to get an all-important FCA regulatory [...]
Tech firm behind NHS’ covid data system moves security operations to UK amid Kremlin cyber attack fears May 16, 2022 Fears of a Russian cyber attack has forced the firm behind the NHS’s vaccine rollout to move permanently to Britain. Palantir is taking its security operations away from the United States to the United Kingdom, amid concerns about the Kremlin launching an attack on cables laid under the Atlantic Ocean, according tot he Telegraph. The [...]
Octopus Group founder: Financial services is still the least trusted industry in the world August 29, 2024 Every week, Charlie Conchie sits down with the biggest movers and shakers in financial services, tech and fintech. This week, it's Octopus Group co-founder and CEO Simon Rogerson
Tech firms lead business growth across Britain as one in four of all high-growth companies are startups March 22, 2022 Of the 175 fastest-growing UK companies – firms that have been able to grow their revenue 20 per cent or more, around a quarter (44) companies are technology companies, according to new research shared with City A.M. today. A significant number of these are fintechs. This includes payments giant Wise, which has managed to grow [...]
UK tech vacancies easier to fill than any other European country December 7, 2021 New analysis by the world’s largest job site Indeed has shown that the number of UK tech sector vacancies posted on the platform doubled (up by 101 per cent) between October 2020 and October 2021.
Computacenter’s profit drops nearly a third as UK customers take ‘greater caution’ September 9, 2024 London-based tech firm Computacenter has reported that its profit slumped by nearly a third in the first half of 2024 amid weaker than expect demand in its home market.
Amazon to invest up to $4bn in Anthropic to boost its AI offering September 25, 2023 Amazon will invest up to $4bn (£3.3bn) in rising artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic, the tech giant said today.
Tech stocks – slow-down or slump? July 27, 2021 With the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating the shift towards a digital-first world; technology stocks rose to all-time highs in 2020, as people spent more time online.1 However, as economies have begun to reopen following the rollout of highly effective coronavirus vaccines; tech stocks sold-off as investors rotated towards sectors set to benefit from reopening. In this [...]
Opinion-in-brief: Britain’s businesses need tech to succeed September 23, 2021 For Britain’s 6 million small businesses, simply surviving these last two years has felt like winning. The challenges have been ceaseless: retaining staff, serving customers digitally, managing cash flow across multiple lockdowns. These have been heavy burdens to bear. But they have fought to keep their businesses afloat. Nearly two thirds watched their revenues fall [...]
Tech giants Alphabet, Meta and Amazon control half of ads outside China December 6, 2021 New data has revealed just how heavily Alphabet's Google, Meta and Amazon dominate advertising.