Forget gadgets, London’s tech prowess is now all about experiences April 15, 2025 London is becoming the global testbed for a new kind of tech, and it's all about the experience economy, writes Paul Armstrong.
London is a tech superpower – so why don’t we act like it? April 15, 2025 London is a tech superpower, but gloomy commentators hate to acknowledge it. It's time to start backing ourselves, writes Adam French.
The secrets of LinkedIn’s algorithm and growing on social media April 14, 2025 The UK boss of LinkedIn has revealed her top three tips to help boost your profile on the social media platform.
UK surges ahead of France and Germany as Europe’s ‘innovation powerhouse’ April 14, 2025 HSBC Innovation Banking, a subsidiary of Europe’s biggest lender, hailed the UK’s enterprise value in its latest innovation report. UK innovation firms raised £3.2bn of venture capital in the first three months of the year – an eight per cent increase from the first quarter of 2024. The quarter attracted higher amounts of funding, with [...]
Government’s privacy dispute with Apple ‘really strange’, expert says April 14, 2025 The government’s position in its privacy and encryption row with Apple is “really strange” and “doesn’t make sense”, an expert has said. Earlier this year, it was reported that the government had issued a notice under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, asking Apple for the ability to access data from Apple users. This was said [...]
Filtronic and Computacenter shares jump as UK tech shrugs off tariff concerns April 8, 2025 Investor appetite is shifting toward UK tech stocks as recent trade tensions, aggressive US tariffs, and mounting concerns over stretched valuations in American tech giants have upended the global investment landscape. With Trump’s sweeping tariffs triggering volatility across US markets, many investors are now looking to UK-listed firms for value, growth, and relative geopolitical stability. [...]
UK tech startups sound alarm over US tariffs April 8, 2025 The UK’s small and medium-sized tech firms have raised concerns following President Donald Trump’s imposition of a 10 per cent tariff on British goods entering the United States. As part of a sweeping trade shift dubbed ‘Liberation Day’ by the Trump administration, these new levies have injected uncertainty over UK-US economic relations, provoking anxiety among [...]
Microsoft cuts UK jobs as sales near £10bn and profit surges April 8, 2025 Microsoft shed more than 200 UK jobs in the year its turnover jumped to almost £10bn, it has been revealed. The US tech giant reduced its headcount from 5,540 to 5,337 in the year to 30 June, 2024, new accounts filed with Companies House show. The reduction comes after Microsoft’s headcount grew from 4,955 in [...]
LinkedIn shouldn’t be like Facebook – UK boss April 7, 2025 LinkedIn should be kept as a professional network and not turned into a new version of Facebook by its members, the UK boss of the social media site has said. Speaking on an up-coming episode of City AM‘s Boardroom Uncovered podcast, country manager Janine Chamberlin said that while there has been a lot of new [...]
Is real-life Severance here? Inside the offices microchipping employees April 4, 2025 Is real life Severance already here? Anna Moloney talks to the companies using human microchips in the pursuit of productivity.