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Silicon Valley Startup Branch Is ‘Solving App Discovery’ With Deep Linking

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Marketing campaigns just got ‘appier. If you are an email marketer or an app developer who has not come across the concept of “deep-linking before”, get ready for good news. Deep linking solves a big problem for any mobile app or marketer who wants to drive traffic, across any channel, to within an app as …

This Haggerston Entrepreneur Is Working With Ucreate To Help Us All Drive A New Car Every 6 Months

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Toby Kernon has owned 19 cars in 20 years, he says. During that period he has switched models, makes, and styles, for a host of different reasons; a growing family, a new job, a change of scenery. But the best experience he had was an arrangement with Ford, who delivered a new car to him …

89% Of Sales Made On This E-commerce Site Are Made By Female-led Companies!

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Hilary Clinton stood forlornly under Manhattan’s highest real-life glass ceiling, and announced ““I know that we still have not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling…But someday someone will” as she conceded the US election to Donald Trump, the ultimate male chauvinist throwback. It was 2016’s lowest moment, perhaps, for strong, female leaders. But here …

Get Your Free Desk At The Trampery Republic – London’s Newest, And Hottest Space For Creatives?

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London-based bootstrapping entrepreneurs tired of skipping meals and working out of cramped, expensive offices with questionable hygiene are being given a chance to secure one of twenty free desks at a luxurious new co-working space next to East India DLR station, with 9,00 square feet of workspace, and a wrap-around roof terrace offering spectacular views …

Can You Quantify Emotions And Use Analytics To Understand Customers Better and Sell More – Sensum Say You Can!

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Brands such as the BBC, Red Bull, Unilever, Jaguar and Cisco are gaining invaluable insights about how to interpret the emotional responses of their customers and use them to improve their products and customer experiences thanks to Belfast-based start-up Sensum Insights. …

Trampery Based Social Video Creation Platform Wochit, Used By Time Inc & Johnston Press Takes $13m More Investment From Media Giants & Angels

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Has there ever been a more challenging time to be a global media agency? With disruptive new social media platforms springing up nearly every day led by ambitious entrepreneurs, video sharing becoming commonplace and smartphones turning every one of us into wannabe film-makers, the sector is a little congested, to say the least. In one …

Beyond Meta! Flight Search Dashboard CheapFlightsFinder To Aggregate Aggregators In Quest To Provide “Rock Bottom” Prices For Flyers

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Tech Start-ups have made a habit of mocking the status quo and asking us, the public, to think outside of the everyday constraints – think driving to work, getting up to turn the lights off, pushing trolleys round the supermarket – that we assumed would be part and parcel of our every-day lives forever. And …

A New Food Delivery Service Is Coming To London That Aims To Empower The Industry By Charging Businesses Less For Listings

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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”. …

Are You A Foodie Start-up Founder Hungry For Success? Try The JustEat Food Tech Accelerator!

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Just Eat, the disruptive food delivery service-cum-Tech “unicorn” which has spawned a thousand copy-cat companies, from mega-bucks success stories like restaurant food delivery service Deliveroo and Delivery Hero on the continent, to nearly-made-its like Pronto and TakeEatEasy, and still hanging-in-there rivals like Hungry House, has decided to share the secrets of its start-up success – …

What is TechDay And Why Are 7,500 People – Including 200 Start-ups Going To Be Attending On October 27th?

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TechDay is coming – even by London start-up standards October 27th represents a special date for your diary. “Meet the entire London start-up community”, the flier exclaims; “build the relationships you need for growth with the 200 start-ups and 7,500 press, investors, & early adopters attending TechDay.” …

How To Power Your Product? Ignyte Series Continues At “The Den” As Stellar Social Panel Discuss Tech & Humanity

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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 …

From The Makers Of Candy Crush – Get Ready For Shuffle Cats! King Launches Its First Ever, London Themed, Live Multi-player Card Game

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London start-up fanciers will doubtless be aware of the fable of Melvyn Morris, and not least because it is a heart-warming tale of a humble, hard working techie founder making a fortune, then another, and another, each one exponentially larger than the last. A young Morris founded a dating site called uDate.com, where worked alongside  …

Rocket Internet Investment Arm Leads £9m Series A Into Recruitment Contract Finance Provider Sonovate, Who Also Raise £5m Debt Financing

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Global Founders Capital, a VC firm based in Munich and backed by the Samwer brothers, founders of Rocket Internet, has led a Series B investment round into Sonovate, a leading recruitment finance provider. Dawn Capital have also participated in the round. The funding is split between £9 million in equity funding and £5m in debt …

IoT Investor / Incubator Breed Reply Announces Latest Start-up Investments, Launches Latest “Best in Breed” Start-up Search

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Breed Reply, the investment arm of Reply, who support the Telco, Media, Banking, Insurance and Public Administration sectors with new communication channels and digital media, announced today that they have reached agreement with 4 London Based, early stage IoT start-ups, to provide investment and support. …

100 Courses in 1,000 Minutes – London’s Longest Dinner Party Coming To Wandsworth Tomorrow Courtesy Of La Belle Assiette!

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A Private chef dining experience is something many discerning Londoners love; it’s the perfect way to impress your guests with beautifully presented, heavenly tasting culinary treats – and of course it’s up to you if you tell your guests who did the cooking! Tomorrow, La Belle Assiette, a Paris based based start-up founded by CEO …

#HackRealEstate Wants 2 Days’ Of Hackers and Property Professionals’ Time To Properly Disrupt The Property Market

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Prop-tech is hot in London in the second half of 2016 – think Settled, Sellmyhome.co.uk, or BrickLane.com. Folks are demanding more say in how they sell or rent their homes, bringing many of the services offered by traditional estate agents “in-house”, and now they need London’s techies and property people to help them fulfil their …

Are You Going To…Apps World London This 19th-20th October?

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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 …

Mannequins No Longer Realistic Enough For Long Tall Sally – Now They Are Using 3D Printed Scans Of Real Women’s Bodies

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Harriet Winters is from London; she is a statuesque 6’0 tall and wears a size 10, and from today she is due to be immortalised by LongTallSally, the fashion chain which exclusively caters for tall women. A lifesize 3D printed model of Harriet will be installed at the London Design Studio where it will be …

Apttus Chief Reveals Company’s Triple Whammy Of $88m Funding, Kuka Robotics Client Win & The Launch of Ground-breaking AI Sales Assistant “Max”

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It’s all about “outcomes” in technology today – the phrase dominated the opening exchanges of a discussion I had this week with Kirk Krappe, CEO and Kamal Ahluwalia, CRO, of Apttus, the “Quote to Cash” Specialists from California who landed in London a little over a year ago, announcing their arrival by throwing a knockout …