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The Brexit Storm Is Still Raging; Can AON’s 3 Step Programme Help Firms “Navigate” Through The Choppy Waters?

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In Centuries to come people will no longer talk about Pandora’s Box and how the furies a little girl unleashed visited pandemonium upon the ancient world. They will, instead, talk about “Boris’ Brexit” and how it unleashed furious Farage upon the world, thus paving the way for a society in which we have a PEOTUS …

New EU Data Privacy Legislation Set To Be Introduced In 2018 EU Is Worrying British Business Leaders, Survey Confirms

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Britain may no longer be part of the EU by 2018 but that will not exonerate businesses from having to comply with onerous new data-privacy laws when dealing with consumers and businesses in EU member countries. According to a survey conducted by KPMG of 100 UK CEO’s, nearly 60% believe that a new EU General …

Yesterday The Chancellor Philip Hammond Delivered His First, & Last, Autumn Statement – So How Does The Tech Start-up World React?

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Some say that a change is as good as feast, but London start-ups could be forgiven for wishing time had stood still from around the time of last year’s Autumn statement. George Osborne may have been austere, but he cannot have imagined a situation as bleak as this. Over to you, Philip Hammond, who, to …

On 3 Month Anniversary of Brexit, London VC Partner Sees Good Prospects For London’s Tech Industry To Ride Out The Storm

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One of the earliest angel investors in CityMapper, the London based journey mapping app which has gone on to raise $50m in 3 rounds of funding, says that 3 months on, he believes Brexit has left the nation “in limbo” and falling behind countries such as Germany, France and Sweden but that a post Brexit …

Smith & Williamson Enterprise Index Hits New Quarterly Lows After One Quarter Of Respondents Give Views In Aftermath of Brexit

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There are 7 stages of grief, and whilst some eternally optimistic folk seem to possess the ability to progress through all seven in the space of a few weeks, days, or in the case of some politicians, minutes, many of Britain’s business owners frustrated by Brexit took out their anger on their quarterly surveys, it …

Are The Recent Spate Of Company Acquisitions In UK, Including Arm Technologies, Really All Brexit’s Fault?

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Domino effect – what’s stopping a fire-sale of British companies with the pound at its weakest level for 31 years? The collapse of the pound in the wake of Brexit has put a price tag on many of Britain’s biggest corporates, and the fire-sale has begun. So say many of Brexit’s fiercest critics anyway – …

5 Things You Must Know About Brexit; What Happens Now, Who Suffers? (Clue, We All Suffer!)

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The Vote Leave campaign pandered to little Englander’s fears about immigration and being controlled by an unelected Brussels elite. The Remain camp launched the divisive “Project Fear”, warning of the disastrous consequences of a Brexit, but forgetting to explain what the EU actually does. It was depressing fare from both sides, and nobody, on either …

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?)

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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 …