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Dog lovers, look away now: Cat pictures may soon be coming to a Tube near you May 20, 2016 Hot on the tail of the city's emerging cat café culture, Londoners may soon be able to see cats during their daily commute. A cuddly Kickstarter fund aims to replace all the ads at a Tube station with pictures of cats, and it is coming within a whisker of its target. Although it was initially dismissed [...]
City Moves for 20 May 2016 | Who’s switching jobs May 20, 2016 Lendinvest Capital LendInvest Capital, the fund management and advisory division of LendInvest, has appointed Jesse Mosebye from Scotiabank to join its expanding team. Jesse spent five years in Scotiabank’s European capital introductions team building investor relationships for the prime brokerage team’s hedge fund and asset management clients. He will work closely with Carl Giannotta, associate [...]
Five reasons why investing in Iran is too great a risk for British firms May 19, 2016 This morning, in a giant ballroom in one of London’s most luxurious hotels, executives from leading corporations will gather for a major investment conference. In some ways, the conference will be like dozens that take place across London each year. However, this one has an unusual and ominous twist: it is organised precisely to encourage [...]
I, for one, welcome our imminent driverless car overlords May 18, 2016 The only way we’d know that the government was any more on board with driverless cars was if the Queen had pulled up to the Houses of Parliament today in the back of one rather than in a horse drawn carriage. It's no wonder, considering the interest from the likes of Google, Apple and the majority of major car makers, that [...]
This London proptech startup’s landed £2m to help make renting less awful May 18, 2016 A London property technology startup which aims to be the Amazon of renting has landed several millions of pounds in funding from renowned tech investor Robin Klein, among others. Goodlord simplifies renting via an app which takes the hassle out of the paperwork with a "rental passport" that keeps hold of renters' information as well as making [...]
This Rock is not for turning: Why Gibraltar backs remaining in the EU May 18, 2016 There have been moments in recent weeks when polls on the outcome of the June 23 EU referendum have been so close that I have wondered if, just maybe, the 23,000 voters I represent as chief minister of Gibraltar might be the ones that swing the vote to Remain. Statistically, we represent a fifth of [...]
Plumbers ramp up fees on emergency call outs by 117 per cent May 17, 2016 Plumbers ramp up their fees by a staggering 117 per cent if they are called out in an emergency, new research has found. Householders who desperately need a tradesperson to fix a water leak end up paying a “plumber premium” on the normal hourly rate, with some plumbers quoting up to £300+VAT an hour, according to [...]
Forget millennials: This is the crucial reason why you should be focusing on retaining your silver capital – and how to do it May 17, 2016 The workforce in Britain is ageing fast. More than 30 per cent of employees are over 50 years old, and nearly a quarter is over 60. This figure is set to rise to 30.7 per cent by 2020. This demographic shift creates significant challenges. In the next two decades, a large proportion of employees aged over [...]
Accenture’s launching an artificial intelligence practice with IPsoft’s Amelia May 16, 2016 No sooner than one global consulting giant has jumped on board with the latest technology trend, another follows suit. Accenture is launching an artificial intelligence practice just a week after PwC did the same with drones, in a bid for a share of the multi-billion dollar and fast growing industry. The Amelia practice, named after the AI software [...]
Lystable’s Peter Johnston talks brutal camps, moving to San Francisco and building the IDs of the future May 16, 2016 Imagine what it would feel like to make your housemate a millionaire within in a year. Your startup’s software enables companies to onboard, resource and pay their contract workers. It’s specific, but sticking to this underserved niche has allowed you to grow very fast. You have 4,500 contractors on your system and you recently had a [...]