Want to join Scotland’s £17bn data revolution? November 16, 2016 | City Talk Picture the scenario: you're located in a leading UK technology centre such as Scotland with a data sector worth a healthy £17bn. You need skilled and qualified data professionals – but where do you find 'em? The good news is that Scottish data innovation centre, Data Lab, is offering 90 MSc places for 2016/17 across seven Scottish universities, [...]
Why haven’t you invested in Scotland’s blockchain sector yet? November 16, 2016 | City Talk Can you hear it? That's the sound of the guys working on the chain. Blockchain to be precise. It's no longer a silent revolution in the UK financial world. It's moving fast. Really fast. In fact an amazing £634 per second fast. Or £70,000 by the time you've read this article. Scotland's rapidly-growing blockchain business is making a big noise in [...]
LendingCrowd thinks outside the bank using the power of the crowd November 16, 2016 | City Talk Peer-to-peer firm LendingCrowd was quick to attract investment to grow in Scotland's niche crowdfunding sector. The company also had the vision to appreciate the vast fintech potential here, which thrives on over 1,000 tech firms, together with 600 financial and business companies. It’s not hard to see why peer-to-peer lending has established such a strong foothold in just a handful of [...]
Google’s still committed to the UK after Brexit promising major investment November 15, 2016 Google remains committed to the UK the tech company's top boss has said, with its headcount set to nearly double in the coming years as it goes ahead with plans for a new £1bn headquarters. "We see opportunities here," said Sundar Pichai on his first trip to London since becoming chief executive. However, a crackdown on skilled immigration would [...]
We’ve hit peak gig economy, according to JP Morgan November 15, 2016 The number of people racing to make money from driving an Uber, offering their services on TaskRabbit or renting out a spare room on Airbnb has peaked, according to one top investment bank. Growth in the number of people participating in the gig economy has slowed and is now plateauing, new research from JP Morgan has [...]
Super Mario is coming to your iPhone next month November 15, 2016 If you're one of the legions of 80s and 90s kids whose misspent youth was taken up frantically punching at SNES and Nintendo 64 controllers, rejoice – for Super Mario is finally about to appear on your iPhone. Today Nintendo said it was planning to release Super Mario Run to Apple's App Store on 15 [...]
Mute button: Twitter is finally taking a major step in tackling abuse November 15, 2016 Twitter has just taken a major step forward in trying to tackle the problem online abuse and trolling on the social network. It is rolling out a mute button which can be used to silence conversations, keywords and phrases, something long demanded by users who have only been able to block accounts before. And it looks like [...]
You can now choose genders other than man or woman on Tinder as it seeks to become more inclusive November 15, 2016 Tinder has announced its newest update which allows users to opt for a gender identity other than man or woman. From its launch back in 2012 up until today, the app only offered users two options when selecting their gender: man or woman. For those who identified as transgender or between or outside the gender [...]
TalkTalk hack: 17-year-old boy admits seven offences November 15, 2016 A 17-year-old boy has admitted seven hacking offences in connection with the TalkTalk data breach in Norwich Youth Court today. The teenager, who cannot be named, pleaded guilty to seven charges under the Computer Misuse Act. The data breach occurred last year and the telecoms firm was hit with a record £400,000 fine by the UK data regulator [...]
TalkTalk boss Dido Harding: Customers “trust us more” after handling of cyber attack November 15, 2016 Dido Harding, the chief executive of TalkTalk, believes her company has improved as a result of last year’s cyber attack. More than one year on from the hack, which affected 157,000 customers, Harding told City A.M. she does not believe the recovery process will ever end. Speaking shortly after Tesco Bank was rocked by a [...]