Tech giants are hitting back against Donald Trump’s immigration ban January 30, 2017 Events have moved fast since Theresa May walked hand-in-hand with President Trump outside the White House. Initial reaction to May’s Washington visit was positive: the PM had charmed Congressional Republicans, banged the drum for increased US-UK trade and held a successful press conference with the new President. Hours later, however, as details emerged of America’s [...]
British tech sector slams President Donald Trump’s migration block, echoing US counterparts January 30, 2017 British tech bosses have echoed their American counterparts by criticising President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel to the US for people hailing from several majority Muslim nations. Just days after Prime Minister Theresa May met the President in a bid to reinvigorate the “special relationship”, she was forced to distance herself from his controversial order on [...]
Donald Trump’s travel ban provokes top tech bosses from Apple, Google, Uber, Twitter, Facebook and more to speak out on immigration January 29, 2017 The high profile bosses of several of the United States' biggest technology companies have spoken out after Donald Trump issued an executive order banning people from seven majority Muslim countries entering the US. Google founder Sergey Brin, himself a migrant from the former Soviet Union, attended a protest at San Francisco airport in a personal capacity, he told reporters. [...]
Uber hasn’t destroyed jobs according to a new study – although taxi driver wages have suffered January 25, 2017 Uber has created more jobs than it has destroyed, according to a new study, despite regularly being characterised as one of the villains of the so-called sharing economy. The number of self-employed drivers rose by 50 per cent in cities where Uber started operations, more than compensating for jobs lost in the taxi sector, researchers [...]
Metro Bank boss: Branchless banking reduces customer choice January 25, 2017 Like Deliveroo and Uber, banks should mix the physical and digital according to Metro Bank chief executive Craig Donaldson. The challenger bank boss said not giving customers the opportunity for face to face interaction is taking away choice. Metro Bank has 48 branches at present, but Donaldson said its target is 250 or maybe 300 [...]
Pay-as-you-go insurtech startup Cuvva has raised cash from a top VC January 25, 2017 A fintech startup offering motorists flexible pay-as-you-go insurance by the hour as landed new investment from one of the UK's top venture capitalists. London-based Cuvva has landed £1.5m seed capital from Robin Klein's LocalGlobal, a backer of Zoopla and Citmapper, to target urban drivers who use their cars infrequently and tapping into the same habits which [...]
Bank junction is about to grind to a halt again as black cab drivers demonstrate for the fifth day in a row January 20, 2017 The junction outside the Bank of England will grind to a halt for the fifth consecutive afternoon today, as black cab drivers once again make their views felt over plans to reduce the number of fatal accidents there. Once again, City of London police pointed out that the protest, in which cabbies will bring their vehicles [...]
The CMA has aired its dirty laundry after it suggests collusion between two laundry services January 20, 2017 The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally concluded two NHS suppliers of cleanroom laundry services have created a market-sharing agreement, breaking competition law. The CMA found between May 2012 to February 2016, the suppliers, Micronclean Limited and Berendsen Cleanroom Services Limited, had an arrangement under which they divided up customers by geographical territory, as well as [...]
Uber has agreed a $20m deal with the US Federal Trade Commission to settle claims of driver deception January 20, 2017 Uber has agreed to pay $20m (£16m) to settle allegations it duped people into driving for its ride-hailing app with false promises regarding how much they'd earn. According to a lawsuit brought by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the company made exaggerated claims about how much drivers could earn and how affordable its vehicle [...]
Deliveroo’s testing an Amazon Prime-style delivery subscription January 19, 2017 Deliveroo is testing out a new feature which has echoes of Amazon Prime – hungry users of the food delivery app can pay a subscription fee rather than a charge on each individual order. Deliveroo Plus will be tested out across six UK cities with customers paying an annual fee of £89, or a monthly fee of [...]