Now why would you be thinking about going freelance or checking out the “gig” economy on your first day back at work? Perhaps it’s best not to answer that, but new figures quoted by freelancing Airbnb equivalent People Per Hour show that if you were contemplating swapping the office for the home, the laptop, or …
Your.MD, The AI Health Platform & App Wants To Be Everybody’s OneStop, Personalised, Digital Health Consultant!
Your.MD, a health-tech start-up that was founded in Oslo, Norway by CEO Matteo Berlucchi but is now headquartered in London, announced today that it has added 12 additional leading digital health service providers to its One Stop Health platform. The company, who raised $5m of funding in January last year in a round led by …
A New Food Delivery Service Is Coming To London That Aims To Empower The Industry By Charging Businesses Less For Listings
It’s a crowded space with high-profile stories of both success and failure – now a new start-up, HeyMenu, is planning to enter London’s unpredictable food delivery market, starting on 1st December. HeyMenu say that their proposition “is to provide up to 90% lower costs to takeaway restaurants than competitors, including zero commission”. …
How To Power Your Product? Ignyte Series Continues At “The Den” As Stellar Social Panel Discuss Tech & Humanity
Not just a digital design agency building apps and disruptive tech products for the likes of Vodafone and BNP Paribas, Despark, the Bulgarian start-up with an increasing presence within London’s thriving tech scene, are on a mission to “engage, educate and inspire” led by passionate CEO Hristo Boyadzhiev. Last night at “The Den”, the co-working …
Are You Going To…Apps World London This 19th-20th October?
The Excel Centre in London’s Victoria Dock will play host to the Apps World Conference on the 19th and 20th October. Europe’s largest “gathering of passionate developers, mobile and marketing professionals” and “the only event to focus on end-to-end process of app conception, from idea, investment and start-up through to design development and marketing” will …
Global Insurer RGA, Worth $53bn, To Back Nottingham Based Health Improvement App Quealth With “Multi-Platform Global Distribution”
Do you know your “Quealth” score yet – chances are the health conscious amongst us might. A Nottingham-based health-tech firm, roadtohealth has bagged $4m of investment from Reinsurance Group of America, one of the world’s largest life and health reinsurers, after RGA took a minority stake in the business, with further investments planned dependent upon …
London Tourism Just Got A Tech Upgrade
The London Pass sightseeing card has been in operation since 1999, helping more than 3 million customers save money and time when sightseeing in the capital city. But who needs the hassle of all those tickets now we have smartphones? Now visitors to the UK’s capital city can download a London Pass app, available …
Just ‘Moments’ To Go? Gay Dating App Hanky First To Create Live Photo Uploads For Users Tired Of Misleading Profile Pics
Users of gay dating apps who while away hours chatting to men they believe to be muscle bound hunks, only to discover, upon meeting for the first time, that they are anything but may be about to be presented with the perfect solution to their problems. “Moments”, from Hanky, a sophisticated dating app that describes …
Hot Start-up? turnleft App Helps Networkers Nail New Connections & Take Chance Out Of “Chance Encounters”
An ex-trader who couldn’t resist the lure of entrepreneurship has created an app to help serial networkers gain a competitive advantage, and to try to address the 25% of business traveller’s time that is spent idle. turnleft, currently available for iOS, is an app that helps its users “build strong relationships at home and away …
Hot New Start-up Alert? Solidarity App Wants You To Help Refugee Charities By Playing Online Games
2 Spanish entrepreneurs are on a mission to create the “first ever free crowdfunding for positive impact initiative”, which will allow the world’s smartphone users to make a donation to a charity of their choice simply by downloading free games and apps. …
App Where Vetted Freelancers Can Find Hospitality and Events Work Paying $9.25ph Raises £2.65m From A Lord & A Boxer
What do heavyweight boxer David Haye David Cameron’s former enterprise advisor, Lord Young, have in common? Both have invested in London Tech start-up Syft, a recruitment app that helps employers find vetted temporary workers in the hospitality and events sectors. …
SaveTheHighStreet.org Wants To Empower A Nation Of Shopkeepers & Win The Public Back Using Disruptive Digital Techniques
Britain’s high streets are under threat, says the SaveTheHighStreet movement; the answer, they say, lies in embracing disruptive digital techniques and enlisting the help of social influencers. High street influencers from bloggers and local councils to social media celebrities, town planners and “retail thought leaders” are being invited to join a crusade aimed at creating …
AsQ Me Anything; Have Two Bucks Based Brothers Discovered The Perfect Way To Tender For Service Providers?
From carpenters to pet-sitters, AsQ, an app developed by 2 brothers from Buckinghamshire, allows users to put out tenders for local services Set your location, set your radius, ask a question, and wait for the responses to come rolling in. Review, rate, and repeat. That’s the simple philosophy behind a new app, AsQ, created by …
Best Of The Press (Releases) Part II; Only One More Sleep Until You Get To Make “The Biggest Decision Of Your Life”; The Left Say In; The Right Say Out; Just say okey dokey (and make sure you don’t vote out?)
Yes, there’s a big vote taking place tomorrow and if you read on we will share the thoughts of some of the “Techerati” on Brexit, but before we do that let’s have a shizzle through what’s been dropping into Haggerston Times’ virtual postbox so far this week. Do Millennials trust and like tech more than …
The Best Of The Press (releases); Brightpearl & Bluesnap Surveys, wouldlovetogo On Reconnecting Socially
Some of us love to shop, some of us love to sell; tech can make it easier at both ends of the spectrum, from managing inventory to the (mobile) online checkout Haggerston Times reviews some of the press releases that have dropped into its inbox this week, and learns about how multichannel merchants leverage tech, …
YAC-ity YAC – Will You Talk Back? New Networking App For Socially Elite Coming To London Scores How Popular You Are, And Tells People
Ever wanted to find the most popular (or least popular) person in the club; thanks to YAC, you’ll soon be able to, says its founders It’s not the first time the idea of a popularity / power based app has been floated (Klout, anyone?), but this time, says Ales Zivkovic founder of social networking and …
Fun Augmented Reality Pop-Up Game For Ipad Starting At $39 Is About To Launch On Indiegogo
John Zhao is an entrepreneur, designer and the founder of AR school in China, a team of graphic designers and consultants with a background in teaching and education who make, amongst other things, cool Augmented Reality games for kids. John’s attempts to impress his 5 year old daughter by designing some “AR” game cards have …
Game, set and watch! The Apple smartwatch has it all, tradition and battery life aside, and will probably become ubiquitous
This much we know: Apple is about to blow the smartwatch market wide open. With the same impeccable timing that saw them announce a new record for weekly billings on their app store ($0.5bn) and a record breaking 2014 for iOS app developers ($25 billion in revenues) during a damp squib of a Consumer Electronics …
The future is mobile! KPMG, alongside UKTI, are sending the best of British mobile start-ups to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
KPMG are collaborating with UKTI and helping to exploit the phenomenal recent growth in the mobile applications space, by sending 8 of the most promising UK based mobile start-ups to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona; the initiative began with over 60 applicants, whittled down to a shortlist of 20 companies, with 8 finalists eventually …
MAQTOOB is the app discovery platform enabling a new breed of entrepreneurs
“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs,” (anon) Most entrepreneurs looking back to when they first went into business tend to cringe with embarrassment. “If I only knew then what I know now”, they say, wistfully, “I’d be making twice what I make now, I’d …