Global Cities 30 index: Seattle’s boom is about far more than Amazon May 5, 2017 The Schroders Global Cities Index ranks the fastest growing urban economies in the world, focusing on the potential for property investment. Read more on the Global Cities Blog. On this post, we examine Seattle's success and its future prospects . Why Seattle? Sitting at no.25 in the Global Cities Index, we rate Seattle as a [...]
Biometric banking: Mastercard’s created a credit card with fingerprint recognition to replace pins April 20, 2017 You can ditch your pin next time you’re at the till – just a fingerprint is needed to pay with Mastercard’s latest credit card. Inspired by the likes of Apple, where a touch of your finger can unlock the iPhone, the card company is trialling the biometric technology to make it easier to pay. Here’s [...]
Is my app reaching its target audience? April 19, 2017 As of January 2017, there were over 2.2m apps in the Apple app store. Too many of these are not reaching their target audience. In this article, we are going to look at ways that you as an application developer can ensure that your app reaches its desired audience. For the purpose of this article, [...]
Fintech patents jump in “arms race” between banks and startups: These are the 10 countries filing the most April 18, 2017 The number of patents being filed for financial technology have jumped amid an “arms race” between fintech startups and banks, new figures reveal. Global fintech patents have grown by 49 per cent in the past five years, reaching 9,545 in 2016 according to official global filings. “The surge in patents reflects both the proliferation of [...]
Here’s a hub for global cybersecurity expertise – and it’s not where you think April 18, 2017 An unexpected location is making a serious case as a worldwide centre of excellence in cybersecurity: Ireland. Cybersecurity activity in Ireland covers a thriving ecosystem, from multinationals at the cutting edge of cloud and mobile security, to indigenous companies working in a range of industries and with a variety of technologies, to academic research and [...]
What Brexit: Venture capital investment in UK startups is up and the future “optimistic”, KPMG Venture Pulse Q1 2017 figures show April 11, 2017 Britain has apparently shaken off the Brexit vote, with fresh figures revealing a rise in investment from venture capitalists. It helps ease concerns that leaving the EU will make the UK an unattractive place to invest and potentially torpedo the technology sector. More than $1bn (£804m) was ploughed into startups in the first quarter of [...]
Apple dropping Imagination Technologies is a major signal of its future AR, VR, machine learning and driverless car plans beyond the iPhone 8 April 4, 2017 The revelation that Apple plans to ditch the supplier behind chips which power the iPhone, Imagination Technologies, is a huge blow for the British tech company. Shares in Imagination dropped 70 per cent in trading and finished the day 62 per cent down at 103p, their lowest level since 2009. The share price fall saw [...]
Imagination Technologies’ warning from Apple: What the analysts say as share price crashes 70 per cent April 3, 2017 Imagination Technologies has gone from potential takeover target by Apple to being warned by the tech giant that its technology will be dropped from future devices. The UK company, which derives around half of its business from its licensing to Apple, indicated that it believes that Apple does not have the capabilities to create its [...]
Imagination Technologies Group (IMG) share price crashes as it gears up for a battle with Apple: US tech giant says it no longer needs British firm’s intellectual property April 3, 2017 British tech firm Imagination Technologies has revealed that Apple, its biggest customer, could end royalty payments for the use of its intellectual property in two years time. Shares in Imagination dropped by 63.2 per cent at the open and 45 minutes into morning trading were down 70 per cent. Imagination’s share price has plunged this [...]
How Ireland became the data capital of Europe March 28, 2017 Over the last 20 years Ireland has established itself as The Data Capital of Europe; with an impressive cluster of leading data rich companies serving Europe from Ireland; from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn,Twitter, Airbnb, with many investing in substantial data centre infrastructure around the Island. Today data privacy issues are at the forefront for [...]