Crackdowns on tech mergers will only serve to deter British entrepreneurs October 18, 2021 What if Facebook had never bought Instagram? This question keeps competition regulators like the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) up at night. In 2012, Instagram had just 30m users, 13 employees, and made no money. The $1bn valuation was mocked and appeared to many to be the sign of a tech bubble ready to burst. [...]
Brexit-proof: London races ahead of all European tech rivals as record 18,500 new startups flock to the capital April 28, 2022 The number of new tech companies incorporated in London jumped 94 per cent last year, it has emerged. A total of 18,549 tech businesses were incorporated in London in 2021, according to an analysis of data held by Companies House, up from 9,572 in 2020. London accounted for the highest number of incorporations in 2021, [...]
Chelsea Digital Ventures: The tech business spun out of a football club November 17, 2021 Look closely next time Romelu Lukaku or Pernille Harder takes a mid-match drink and you may notice something that marks Chelsea out from other football clubs. Because instead of taking a swig from a bottle of Lucozade, or another well known sports hydration brand, players at the west London club have their own in-house product. [...]
Exclusive: UK must upskill workforce to prepare for digital-led world, tech leaders say January 27, 2022 Leading figures in Britain’s tech industry have said the UK urgently needs to upskill its workforce, to prepare UK workers for a digital first world. The comments come after new research from Salesforce showed that UK workers believe they lack the skills needed to operate in a “digital first” world, and that they lack the [...]
AI platform Cordel begins data contract with Network Rail to improve engineering on HS1 February 14, 2024 Artificial intelligence platform Cordel Group has commenced its contract with Network Rail, providing high-tech data capture services on High Speed one.
Sunak: People should ‘be comfortable with failure’ and take risks to start firms November 3, 2023 The Prime Minister said he wanted to “transpose” the entrepreneurial culture of “places like Silicon Valley” to the UK during a talk with tech billionaire Elon Musk.
Google owner Alphabet, Apple and Meta probed under sweeping new EU digital law March 25, 2024 The EU has opened investigations into Apple, Facebook owner Meta and Google owner Alphabet in the first probes under sweeping new tech legislation that could lead to heavy fines.
Square Mile and Me: Admiral CFO Geraint Jones on heading up the FTSE 100’s only Welsh company March 28, 2024 Geraint Jones, chief financial officer at Admiral Group, takes a trip down memory lane to tell us about his career, from exercise tech to insurance.
Dyson looking to hire hundreds of new engineers as tech giant wants every Brit to use home assistant robots within years May 25, 2022 As Dyson has started to preview plans to build home assistant robots – it wants to have them in UK homes by the end of the decade -the tech company has issued a call to robotics engineers to join. The UK-founded firm announced plans to open a robotics centre at Hullavington Airfield in Wiltshire, where [...]
Ron’s Gone Wrong, review: A family film with a tech twist October 18, 2021 It’s a sign of the times that an increasing number of family films are focusing on technology. The Jumanji movies moved from a boardgame to a video game console; Space Jam’s villain was a rogue AI; and one of the best family movies of this year, The Mitchells Vs The Machines, had our reliance on [...]