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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 …

Exclusive! Lady Barbara Judge Opens Up On Why She Is Backing HR Tech Start-up bob; “We’re Done Celebrating Start-ups, Let’s Get To Work!”

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The thing about London; it’s full of smart people. Everywhere you look, on the tube, the buses, in the taxis and Ubers; every office and every shop is crammed full of smart people, going about their business. So, when a new phenomenon, the world of tech start-ups, starts to grow up around the Old Street …

SaveTheHighStreet.org Wants To Empower A Nation Of Shopkeepers & Win The Public Back Using Disruptive Digital Techniques

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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 …

Funding & Skills Shortages, Scaling Up & Bitcoin Concerns; The World Of UK Tech According To Smith & Williamson’s Enterprise Index

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Time to put the pedal to the metal? According to a new survey from Smith & Williamson, entrepreneurs are unable to secure enough funding to help their companies “scale up” Scaling up is never easy to do, but you have to give it a go. It’s the best we can do. Not a set of …

Two Unicorns; Two Tech Hubs; Big Difference; London’s Tech Scene Is Nothing Like The Size Of Silicon Valley’s, But It Can Be As Influential

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Snapchat – the latest “Decacorn” to roll off the Silicon Valley production line Two of the biggest startup funding stories of the week illustrate the size of the gulf that still exists between London and The Silicon Valley when it comes to creating tech giants. Many prominent London based techies, entrepreneurs, startup founders and investors …

DKLM Hosts Inaugural Law Tech Hub, Asks How Law Intersects With Burgeoning Tech Startup Scene

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Is your startup drowning in legalese – get some colour at TechLawHub, the last Tuesday of the month DKLM are a Law Firm started in 2004 in Shoreditch by 4 partners with a diverse range of interests and a strong presence in India, China and Africa. “Our differences are our strengths”, they say and so …

Uh-Oh – We’re In Trouble!

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Has someone come along and burst our start-up bubble? Reports have surfaced that one of Britain’s most valuable (as much as £1.8bn) and celebrated startup “unicorns”, Powa Technologies is about to enter administration, putting 300 jobs at risk – Deloitte have been appointed to try to sell the business as a going concern. Meanwhile across …

Tech Nation 2016; Early-adopting Britons Are Creating Clusters All Over This Land

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Did you know there are nearly 10,000 people in the Ipswich area working in tech – earning an average of £42,000 each? Or that Oxford is the birthplace of tech startup Sophos, the anti-virus software company that completed the UK’s largest ever IPO last year at a valuation of £1 billion? Or even that “Cyber …

Tech City Is Nearly 4, Silicon Valley Nearly 45; Can The Young Buck Really Usurp The Old Master?

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Does London need a guy like this watching over it? Tech city will soon be celebrating its 4th birthday, and around the same time, Silicon Valley will turn 45. By human standards, that means Tech City has learned to walk, talk and make friends and will soon be saying goodbye to the nursery and hello …

Eileen Burbidge To Take The Tech City Chair – Replacing Joanna Shields – Is This A Political Succession Plan?

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Tech City; not necessarily a natural habitat for London’s top tech brass? So farewell then Joanna Shields, and welcome Eileen Burbidge; whilst the latter probably needs no introduction to ground level Tech City aficionados, the former may not have been quite so much on start-up’s radars. Baroness Shields of Maida Vale, in the City of …

How to run a fantastic Tech City start-up: the tenets of “Flubilosophy”

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Define start-up? A 27 year old co-founder; a 25 year old COO; a pool table; a table tennis tournament; kayaking. International travel. Presentations at dawn? There is no template, but it’s tempting to think that Flubit, the demand driven marketplace which guarantees to create a better offer for any goods bought online via a network …

You will find Tech City at a crossroads, not a roundabout

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Last week Haggerston Times came across a report from 2012 entitled “A Tale of Tech City: The Future of Inner East London’s Digital Economy”. The report was released by not for profit think tank Centre for London, in association with the British Venture Capital Association, British Telecommunications Plc, London & Partners and the Federation of …