Scottish EDGE becomes customer of one of its winners
Scottish EDGE, the UK’s largest business funding competition, has become a customer of one of its winners, Edinburgh-based tech startup Amiqus. Amiqus ID software provided the anti-money laundering and credit...
“Doctor Diesel” delivers more accurate prognosis for shipping
Diesel engines could benefit from increased fuel efficiency, following the development of a new algorithm by Icon Research and CENSIS, the Scottish Innovation Centre for Sensor and Imaging Systems. Working...
Role models tackling the gender gap – Ninjas need not apply
Apple famously hit the headlines when it launched its health monitoring app. By not involving women in the design of products or services, Apple fundamentally limited not only the capabilities...
BLACKBX partners with LigoWave WiFi to target China
BLACKBX has announced a deal with US wireless networking solutions company LigoWave to deliver their pioneering guest WiFi software to the Chinese market and beyond. The rapidly growing Edinburgh-based firm will also work...
Miigen Secures Leading Scottish businessman for Chairman role
Leading Scottish businessman, Brian Williamson, has been appointed Chairman of Miigen, the innovative Stirling-based ‘digital time capsule’ company. The appointment follows the sale in May of the recruitment business Brightwork,...
Startup Summit announces new sponsor
Scotland’s leading entrepreneurship event, Startup Summit has gained another sponsor this week as it secures Scotland’s largest independent firm of chartered accountants and business advisers, Johnston Carmichael as key sponsors. ...
Digital Society 2017: Social Smart Cities – Envisioning a new operating system for digital cities
While it is exciting to see Scotland embracing Smart Cities, it’s important not to become purely technology-driven but instead first define the social outcomes we want these investments to achieve. An...
LendingCrowd posts record month with 200 deals in August
LendingCrowd, Scotland’s only alternative finance provider to SMEs, topped 200 cumulative loan deals in August and posted a record month for the P2P lender with around £2.5 million of funds...
Sustainably wins Best of Show at Finovate Fall in New York
Sustainably, a social good technology company for conscious consumers and businesses who want to localise and personalise their corporate social responsibility programmes, has won Best of Show at Finovate Fall,...
The global digital divide could become a ‘digital chasm’, says United Nations
More than half the world’s population – 3.9 billion people – do not have access to the Internet, according to a report on the digital divide to be discussed by...
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