Pick an industry. Next, try to pick an industry that hasn’t been disrupted by technology. Can’t? Well if you’d have said ‘notaries’ a few years ago, you might have won a point.…
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Britain’s Election Throws a Spotlight on Northern Ireland. But for its Thriving Tech Scene, it’s Business As Usual
The UK’s shock election result has thrown an unlikely spotlight on Northern Ireland. Theresa May’s poor Conservative result means her party has turned to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), a rightwing, pro-British…
Airweave Targets Sport’s Elite with Mattress Technology
In most industries, progress is an evolutionary process. Leaders will argue relentlessly about modest changes to products, as they make small improvements over a long time. But once in awhile, momentous shifts…
Pieces Technology Launches With $21.6m Series A Round
Pieces Technology, a startup aiming to improve clinical and community health outcomes, has launched with a $21.6 million Series A funding round. Pacific Advantage Capital and Jump Capital led the investment, with…
The Old Town and the Sea: How Marine Technology is Revamping Russia’s “Fortress in Europe”
Kaliningrad occupies one of Europe’s strangest geopolitical spaces. Tucked between Lithuania and Poland on the fringes of the Baltic Sea, the exclave is 300 miles from the rest of Russia, and almost…
The top 10 technology stories from 2014
By Anam Alpenia The past 12 months have been more than eventful for the technology industry. From hacking to mega funding rounds to the biggest technology IPO ever, 2014 has certainly not…
Free:Formers’ Emma Cerrone on London, plugging the skills gap and women in technology
Emma Cerrone is Managing Director and Co-Founder of Free:Formers, a London-based group which trains corporates such as Barclays, Asos and Tesco in ‘challenges posed by the digital revolution’. For every businessperson Free:Formers…
Exit Report: Lending Club, Good Technology, EMC
It was another light week in tech-related IPO activity. Perhaps the biggest news was that the peer-to-peer loan platform Lending Club will list on the New York Stock Exchange when it goes public before the end of the year.
Alibaba’s road to the largest technology IPO ever
Over the past two weeks, institutional investors have piled into the Alibaba roadshow as if the company was handing out free money. The long awaited process started three years ago and the…
Top five Chinese business laws everyone should know
China is a massive marketplace, teeming with talent and a potential goldmine for investors and entrepreneurs. It’s little surprise so many startups set up shop in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou or other cities…