The impact that Brexit will have on attracting talent to the UK’s scaling tech businesses has been a primary area of concern as companies adjust to life outside of the European Union (EU).
06.05.2021
The tracking cookie is withering away, leaving an increasingly cookieless world in its wake. These tiny text files empower advertisers with myriad data on the online consumers they intend to reach. However, they also violate privacy standards that have continually grown tighter and more respectful toward individual users. In a privacy-centric world where advertisers seek to maintain the upper hand on consumer insight, how can we move on from the cookie?
05.05.2021
Rosa Lina Swaby is a Data & Analytics PM at Microsoft for the Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud team. She recently joined Microsoft and before that she was working as a front-end engineer at American Express on the Customer HomePage team for around 2 years. She is currently based in NYC and is a 2018 NYU Computer Science Graduate. When she is not working, she loves to cook and find new rom-coms to watch.
05.05.2021
COVID-19 has been hard on companies, with the pandemic making it more difficult to do business. Organisations around the world have had to re-think how they operate as a result.
03.05.2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a stressful and unusual time for everyone, but whilst mental health has been a focus in the general public, the impact it has had on businesses across the UK has often been overlooked.
29.04.2021
In traditional hiring processes, the ways that businesses conduct interview can often be very exclusive and act as a barrier of the disabled or even for those that are just a little bit different to the typical candidate for interview. There is a massive pool of disabled Americans who are looking for work and just cannot seem to get past this first interview stage for this very reason.
29.04.2021
Over the past year, how we work has changed significantly. What has become blindingly obvious is that there has never been greater flexibility in how and where companies are allowing their employees to work.
28.04.2021
Much has been said about the rise of the cashless society, and that was even before the pandemic. Over the course of 2020, cash has shifted from being just a passé mode of payment to becoming a breeding ground for a killer virus.
27.04.2021
The era of digitisation revolutionises the way businesses work and keep up with their growth. Hundreds of organisations worldwide ambitiously set off and begin their digital journey. This increasingly automated, even robotised way of cooperation is seen as our near future.
21.04.2021
In the third quarter of 2020, European healthtech startups secured $2.3B of investment, according to research by Speedinvest and Dealroom. Of the 626 digital health companies currently active across Europe, 63% were founded in the past five years. It’s a space that’s expanding and diversifying at breakneck speed.
20.04.2021
Liverpool-based entrepreneur Paul Harrison is the cofounder of homeworking travel consultancy Not Just Travel and its recruitment arm, The Travel Franchise. Here, Paul discusses the ups and downs of entrepreneurial life and gives advice for those who want to break free and work for themselves.
19.04.2021
It is well known that for every £1 of VC funding, female-founded businesses receive just 1p. Worse than that, for the last 20 years only 10% of venture funding has gone towards businesses that even include a woman anywhere in the founding or leadership team. Investors must show more than just good intentions if we're to realise the full potential of female-founded startups.
15.04.2021
The number of unicorn startups is steadily growing in Korea and has now hit 13. In 2020, due to the pandemic, only one startup, Socar, a car sharing startup achieved unicorn status. In Korea, the government made considerable efforts to the birth of unicorns with financial subsidiaries. Many domestic investors expected to see more unicorns this year, here are 5 Korean startups expected to be the next unicorns.
14.04.2021
Robot servants, automated factories and self-driving cars —these are some of the things that are highlighted whenever the concept of Artificial Intelligence is discussed. The technology is often painted as ‘futuristic’; something that will reshape human life years from now.
14.04.2021