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Digitising Real Estate Transactions; The Future Of The Property Industry; A Guest Post From Settled Founder Gemma Young

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  Gemma Young is CEO and Co-Founder of acclaimed disruptive property transaction platform Settled Property is our most important asset class, it’s also our most emotional asset. Therefore, getting our home sale or purchase right is not just a big deal for consumers, it’s a big deal for the wider UK economy. Unlike other industries …

It’s Official – The Freelancing / Gig Economy Is Growing and 65% of Young Brits Expect To Use It During Their Careers

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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 …

No Agent? Prop-Tech Firm Chaired By Former CEO of Propertyfinder.com Launches UK’s First DIY Lettings Service

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First it was short term lets and holiday homes – now it looks as though the entire UK Lettings market could be getting the “digital disruption” treatment. A new UK start-up, No Agent, claims that its fully integrated lettings management platform can help landlords let their properties without using a 3rd party agent, and save …

Hot Start-up? turnleft App Helps Networkers Nail New Connections & Take Chance Out Of “Chance Encounters”

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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 …

Innovate Finance & SWIFT Innovation Arm Innotribe Launch Global FinTech Federation To Inspire Innovation & Pool Knowledge

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A “FinTech Federation” comprising technology groups from more than 20 cities around the world is being set up by British FinTech trade body Innovate Finance, and Innotribe, the innovation ARM of SWIFT, the financial communications provider. Fabian Vandenreydt, the global head of Innotribe and the SWIFT Institute, described the proposed federation as “a group of …

Trip Advisor, Yelp Rival TruRating Raises £9.5m To Fund Growth, Expansion Into North America Shortly After Announcing 2 Million Rating Milestone

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Will TruRating, after a £9.5m Series A fundraising, be able to exploit a gap in the market for “honest and transparent” customer service and product reviews? TruRating, a start-up which captures real-time ratings from point-of-sale customers in the UK and Australia, has raised £9.5m in a Series A funding led by international investment office for …

Sydney startup SeatFrog’s Fundraise Will Have Airline Passenger’s Jumping Out Of Their Seats For Joy

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Ever wanted to upgrade to Business or First Class shortly before boarding a flight, but didn’t know how? Wonder no more, thanks to new startup Seatfrog The disruption and democratisation of air travel by tech continues apace no doubt to the delight of passengers, who may not be casting such envious glances at first class …

Mistakes On A Plane – Why Airlines Can’t Capitalise On Digital Add-on Services

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They are the ultimate captive audience, sitting on board one of mankind’s greatest inventions, but in a strangely anachronistic twist if a passenger on a flight requires food, drink, entertainment or assistance they must run the gauntlet of the food trolley, sharp edged metal doors flapping, blocking off at least two of the available bathrooms. …

The End Of The High Street, Or The Beginning Of The Click And Collect Revolution?

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First Woolworths, now BHS – has the British public fallen out of love with the high street? Can tech save it? It’s no secret that the British High Street isn’t what it used to be; in the past decade Woolworths, Jane Norman, Threshers, Peacocks and Clinton cards have all fallen into administration and been consigned …