Rocket list 2020: The best London startups to work for this year January 14, 2020 Fintech firms dominate a new list of 32 fastest growing London startups released today, with the companies listing 499 open positions. Job site Otta, which focuses on the most innovative firms in the capital, has today released its Rocket List, highlighting the firms expanding the fastest in 2020. Nine fintech firms made the list, including [...]
George Monbiot is wrong, farming isn’t outdated — it’s sowing the seeds of our future January 14, 2020 In his Channel 4 documentary last week “Apocalypse Cow” and the accompanying op-ed, the journalist George Monbiot both predicted and celebrated the end of farming. “After 12,000 years of feeding humankind,” he wrote, “all farming except fruit and veg production is likely to be replaced by ferming: brewing microbes through precision fermentation.” He went on [...]
Three ways the Prime Minister can unleash the digital economy January 14, 2020 So far, the new government has yet to unveil its detailed plan for building a stronger, more prosperous, rebalanced Britain that we heard about so much during the election campaign last year. The first post-Brexit Budget in March will be an opportunity for Downing Street to show its commitment to this cause — and pledges [...]
US officials provide UK with fresh data ahead of Huawei decision January 13, 2020 Senior US officials made a last-minute plea to Boris Johnson today to keep Huawei out of Britain’s telecoms network, warning that allowing the Chinese firm to remain involved would be “nothing short of madness”. A dossier was presented by a US delegation to the UK that officials told media outlets included new technical information that [...]
Logitech MX Keys and MX Master 3 review: The keyboard and mouse upgrade you never knew you needed January 13, 2020 How do you make keyboards cool? Trick question, you can’t. If anybody ever describes a keyboard as cool, or shows any interest in keyboards at all, you should turn around and walk away because they’re clearly dangerously unhinged. That being said, Logitech’s new wireless MX Keys keyboard is incredibly nice to use, and almost certainly [...]
Tech confidence holds firm ahead of upcoming EU exit January 13, 2020 Confidence among British tech startups remained steady in the final quarter of 2019, as companies awaited the outcome of the General Election and stood firm ahead of the UK’s upcoming exit from the EU. Overall business confidence rose slightly, as 74 per cent of respondents to Studio Graphene’s Tech Tracker survey said they were confident [...]
Tiktok mulls curated content feed in bid to woo advertisers January 13, 2020 Tiktok is said to be mulling the launch of a curated content feed as the Chinese social media app looks to assuage advertiser fears over harmful material posted to its platform. The video-sharing firm is considering setting up a new stream that would contain carefully vetted content from so-called Tiktok creators or videos from professional [...]
With its foray into facial recognition, Uber is normalising mass surveillance January 13, 2020 The news late last year that Uber plans to introduce facial recognition technology seems to have mostly escaped the notice of the public, buried as the story was beneath five or six paragraphs in most of the reports on the loss of the firm’s London licence. Or perhaps, as one depressing Wall Street Journal headline [...]
London leads the UK in creation of startups January 13, 2020 London continued to dominate the startup landscape in 2019, as the UK hit a record level for a second year in a row. The number of startups in London increased 2.4 per cent to 221,373 companies, a substantial portion of the 681,704 businesses created in 2019. Data from the Centre for Entrepreneurs’ annual startup index released on Monday showed that [...]
US officials to hold last-ditch talks with UK over Huawei ban January 12, 2020 US officials are gearing up for a final attempt to persuade the government to block Huawei from building the UK’s 5G network. Representatives from the US National Economic Council and National Security Agency are set to hold meetings in London tomorrow ahead of a final verdict on whether the embattled Chinese tech firm will face [...]
