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London Tech Week 2022 – Q&A with Chief Strategy Officer at Blend
Resolve the cybersecurity skills gap by upskilling
Check Point Software Opens New London City Office
Communicate ramps up acquisition drive with £1.5m loan
How to navigate your way through a hiring freeze
How to stay on top of your cash flow as a startup
employment and skills
View allLondon Tech Week 2022 – Q&A with Chief Strategy Officer at Blend
Resolve the cybersecurity skills gap by upskilling
UK workers want further learning as skills gap widens
How to navigate your way through a hiring freeze
Space Recruitment Company Open Manchester Office
New report finds tech businesses must avoid jargon in order to prevent talent losses
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View allCommunicate ramps up acquisition drive with £1.5m loan
Indoor Robotics secures $15 million in Series A round
Promising cancer treatment biotech firm Spirea secures £2.4m
The metaverse could grow up to £4.1 trillion in value by 2030
API for small business data Codat secures $100 million in Series C funding round
Trovata expands to the UK following $27 million Series B funding round
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Paragon makes third strategic deal of the year with purchase of The Lettershop Group
Graphite Capital sells Random42 to The Lockwood Group
Marlowe plc announces £6.1 million acquisition of HR Solutions
Lumin Wealth completes acquisition of Ashridge Financial Management
Forescout signs agreement to acquire Cysiv
Wasserman acquires Mullhaupt Management
economy and politics
View allLondon Tech Week 2022 – Q&A with Chief Strategy Officer at Blend
One-in-three working overtime amid cost of living crisis, survey finds
UK workers want further learning as skills gap widens
More than 60% of CEOs globally believe a recession is coming
How to prepare your business for a recession
Use of Equity release grows significantly in 2022
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How will the government’s plans to tighten up buy now pay later loans affect retail?
Social media: the new frontier for touting fakes?
52% of small businesses believe customers are shopping small to support them during tough economic climate
New study finds 57% want health and beauty brands to promote body positivity
The Booming E-commerce Sector and Its Forecasted Growth by 2025
Blueberry, the metaverse fashion brand, announces all-female senior leadership team
financial services
View allHow to stay on top of your cash flow as a startup
Graphite Capital sells Random42 to The Lockwood Group
How to prepare your business for a recession
Fintech Datia raises £2.7m for aim to simplify investors’ transition to sustainable finance
Lumin Wealth completes acquisition of Ashridge Financial Management
Q&A with James Gibson – Director of Business at Revolut
energy and low carbon
View allFintech Datia raises £2.7m for aim to simplify investors’ transition to sustainable finance
VTT to pilot transparent cellulose film designed to replace traditional plastic food packaging
Emission possible: three small and meaningful tactics all CEOs can use in pursuit of a net zero reality
Clean energy company Egg appoints new CEO
Machine learning decarbonisation platform launches in the UK
SMEs get on board with ESG
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London games company launches ‘remote-first’ business model
Overwhelming increase in London-based business owners aged 18-25 since the start of the pandemic
Google Practice MD says “don’t panic” to businesses in the wake of devaluing third-party cookies
SMEs increasingly looking at TikTok to market products
Retaining cyber talent in the Great Resignation
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Use of Equity Release grows significantly in 2022
Use of Equity release grows significantly in 2022
RED Construction South West to construct the first sustainable ‘Zeal Hotel’
Pimlico appoints new CEO after being acquired by US firm Neighborly
North West Roofing Supplies acquires B&M Henderson for undisclosed figure
Acorn Property Group secures £10m Paragon Green Finance for Somerset scheme
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New report finds supply chain disruptions in 2023 could cost up to €920 billion in GDP
UK supply chains performing better than forecasted in Q1 but global order volumes drop
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Post-pandemic: reshaping trade ties with China
New research finds Yorkshire is UK hotspot for global export
56% of retailers believe eco-activism poses a bigger risk of supply chain disruption in 2022
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View allGraphite Capital sells Random42 to The Lockwood Group
Promising cancer treatment biotech firm Spirea secures £2.4m
Vet-AI appoints its first People Director
Tech social care platform Florence secures £28.5m in Series B round
Inaugural Growth Index ranks the UK’s 100 fastest growing companies with The Ralph topping the list
How organisations can address employee wellbeing and attract new talent by adopting co-working spaces
food and drink
View allVTT to pilot transparent cellulose film designed to replace traditional plastic food packaging
London-based brewer Pinter appoints Growth Director and Community Director
The ‘home of hedging’ Stable secures $60m in Series B round
Bristol home-cooked food startup All About The Cooks secures £125,000 from Cookpad
New data finds pub and bar staff are the happiest shift workers
Nespresso achieves B Corp Certification
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Paul Greengrass CBE becomes Honorary Professor at the University of Salford
NYES Digital celebrates successful partnership with Boxphish
The City of Liverpool College appoints new Director of Social and Cultural curriculum
Oneday, the EdTech platform for entrepreneurs, secures £2.5m in seed funding
Overcoming the limitations of our own intelligence in an information society
Skills new engineering students can’t do without
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View allHow will the government’s plans to tighten up buy now pay later loans affect retail?
The importance of IP due diligence when preparing for sale
Amanda French becomes a Partner at Clarke Willmott’s Bristol firm
The potential cost of crowdfunding
Tech experts discuss the four-year anniversary of GDPR
UK Government sets out position for applying international law in cyberspace
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Katanox raises £4.5 million and appoints Rob Torres as Non-Executive Director
More than one-in-five SME employees who travel damage their tech
SF Parks acquires its fourth caravan park in North Wales
Lateral flow vs PCR tests: what is the difference?
Advantex wins six-figure contract to supply internet services at an 800-year old castle
South Wales retail and leisure group Leekes secures new finance package
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Three ways machine inefficiency negatively impacts your business
New research finds Midlands remains the UK’s number one hotspot for early-stage start ups
Greencore employees consider legal action after company hit by data breach
7 Tips For Growing Your CNC Machining Business
BOMAG GB hires new UK Managing Director as it looks to grow
Molson Group acquires material processing equipment supplier Powerscreen in California
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Spare Desk, the Bristol start-up that seeks to change the future of workspaces, launches
Figures completes acquisition of Payspective
Financing platform Debite launches in UK following £2.5m pre-seed round
London, Cambridge and Derby ranked as the best cities for Generation Z to start a business
51 percent of business owners say 2022 is a good time to start a business
New research finds Midlands remains the UK’s number one hotspot for early-stage start ups
transport and distribution
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New poll finds two thirds of travel programmes do not provide provisions for LGBTQ+ community
Highways England has lost 125 electronic devices in five years, prompting cyber security fears
Liftango appoints new Chairman
Global packaging solutions firm Zeus completes acquisition of Canadian distributor Agri-Flex
RideTandem secures £1.75m in seed funding as it aims to tackle “transport poverty”
Van rental company Newark secures six figure funding package to expand its fleet
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Snap partners with ITV to bring the Football World Cup to Snapchat
Wasserman acquires Mullhaupt Management
Sports platform backed by Serena Williams and Usain Bolt raises $60 million in Series B round
Gung Ho Communications completes acquisition of influencer marketing platform Freestak
UFC Champion Amanda Nunes to Offer Personal Training in the Metaverse
UK Sport targeted by nearly a quarter of a million cyberattacks in the past 12 months
“I think we associate stress with negative fear and panic anxiety – having a challenge-response trains us to feel excitement more than fear towards what we’re doing”
Maison Sport announces £400K investment to fuel expansion
CitySprint partners with Leeds Rhinos as it expands its presence in the North of England
creative industries
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Crowd-funding publisher Unbound appoints new CEO
CreativeX Founder joins 5% of female entrepreneurs raising Series B funds
Inaugural Growth Index ranks the UK’s 100 fastest growing companies with The Ralph topping the list
Our journey to being a better business, our journey to B Corp
Jenny O’Sullivan appointed Digital Client Partner at MediaCom North
Harrogate-based Extreme wins pitch to handle marketing for iconic Henry vacuum
