UK tech startups net a record £9bn to keep European crown November 21, 2019 Investors have ploughed a record £9bn into British tech startups in 2019, according to figures that place the UK’s tech investment scene head and shoulders above the rest of Europe. Tech companies have so far countred $11.1bn (£8.6bn) in venture capital this year, according to a report from VC firm Atomico today, a 48 per [...]
The internet can help left-behind constituencies step into the future November 21, 2019 It can sometimes be easy to forget that the internet plays a vital part of everyday life. It makes a substantial economic contribution to the UK, creating approximately 400,000 jobs, 80,000 businesses, and £45bn in gross value added to the UK’s GDP. Most importantly, the internet improves people’s lives with products and services that make [...]
The best smartwatches of 2019: Here’s our pick of this year’s top wearables November 20, 2019 Smartwatches have come a long way since the bulky strap-on devices of just a few years ago, and just like our phones they’ve begun to take on more and more useful functions as the underlying technology improves. Wearables have merged with fitness trackers, and have heroically untethered themselves from our phones by incorporating their very [...]
Prosus and Takeaway.com trade blows in battle for Just Eat November 20, 2019 The two companies competing to take over food delivery firm Just Eat were locked in a war of words today as they vied to win the favour of shareholders. Prosus said the bid made by rival Takeaway.com represented “significant risks” and underestimated how competitive the British market was. Read more: Takeaway.com boss has no plans [...]
Death Stranding review: Hideo Kojima’s game about delivering parcels hits dizzying highs and terrible lows November 20, 2019 There’s an entire genre of games disparagingly referred to as “walking simulators”. In most of them, walking is simulated in only the most rudimentary of ways – you tend to glide about the place, looking at sunsets and picking up fruit. Japanese auteur Hideo Kojima has created a true walking simulator, a game in which [...]
Elon Musk to face defamation trial over ‘pedo guy’ comments November 20, 2019 Tech billionaire Elon Musk will appear in court to face a defamation lawsuit after he referred to a British diver as “pedo guy” on Twitter. A Los Angeles judge today denied Musk’s request to throw out the case and ordered the trial to begin on 3 December. Read more: Brexit has cost Britain a Tesla [...]
The scary movie cliches your business might be committing November 20, 2019 The choices that characters make in scary movies can often seem baffling. Why do they never turn the lights on when entering the house at night alone? How come they always run upstairs and never outside when being chased? These may be fictional scenarios we’ve seen on the screen many times, but real-world businesses are [...]
UBS warns of more Sage downgrades as cloud spend hurts annual profit November 20, 2019 More downgrades will weigh on Sage’s share price, investors were warned today, as the British software company revealed that its transition to cloud has knocked its annual profit. Read more: Meet the UK’s 70 fastest growing tech startups The figures Sage’s share price fell 4.6 per cent to 708p in early trading as it admitted [...]
Google admits major underreporting of General Election ad spend November 20, 2019 Google has admitted to severely underreporting spending on UK political advertising ahead of the upcoming General Election, with errors affecting both the Conservative and Labour parties. Google’s weekly transparency reports on advertising spending by political parties and other organisations contain major discrepancies because heavy spending on search terms is not always recorded, The Guardian reported. [...]
Dominic Raab: ‘No-one gives a toss’ about Tory party’s factcheckUK Twitter stunt November 20, 2019 Dominic Raab has said that “no-one gives a toss” that the Conservative Party has been accused of misleading the public by renaming their Twitter account ‘factcheckUK’ during last night’s leaders debate. The Conservatives have faced criticism from fact checkers and Twitter after changing the name of the @CCHQPress account during the ITV debate between Boris [...]