Recruitment firm promotes diversity and inclusion message
A recruitment company set up to ensure fair pay for interns has widened its scope to encourage firms to become more diverse and inclusive in the way they hire staff....
Staff engagement platform Trickle secures almost £1m in seed funding
A tech platform which allows staff to feedback their views in realtime to senior management has secured almost £1m in seed funding. Trickle, which has been used by a string...
Tech firm Sopra Steria builds its service design offer for government
“I think there has just been a bit of a general zeitgeist, or recognition, that design has more to offer than perhaps people have traditionally felt,” says Luke Jeavons, Head...
Former corporate high flyer scoops CEO of the Year at tech startup awards
A former corporate high-flyer who founded a fintech platform to help companies secure early stage investment has scooped CEO of the Year at a tech startup awards. Jude Cook, who...
New report calls for ‘greater clarity of purpose’ towards a ‘shared national mission’ for innovation
A new national innovation report has highlighted duplication and conflicts within Scotland’s academic and business research funding landscape. Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, the principal of Glasgow University, has called for...
TechUK calls for named ministerial digital transformation champion in each UK government department as part of ‘manifesto launch’
techUK has today published its 2019 manifesto, Towards a Better Future, setting out how the next government should use technology to deliver a better future. The tech sector is the UK’s...
Barclays launches enhanced ‘finger vein’ scanner for business banking customers
Barclays has unveiled its enhanced finger vein scanner to help businesses access banking facilities securely and simply in seconds. The Barclays Biometric Reader (BBR), developed in collaboration with Hitachi, uses...
The double-edged sword of digitalisation
A phrase often attributed Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is that everything that can be digitised will be digitised, and also copied. While the first promise is working as a catalyst...
CodeBase launches new programme to connect tech startups to legal sector
CodeBase is launching a new programme to introduce startups to stimulate demand in the legal technology sector. The UK’s largest tech incubator will bring its LawTech Bridge programme in partnership with Barclays...
Robotic security vehicle developed by Edinburgh-based tech firm
Edinburgh-based Casta Spes Technologies (CST) has unveiled a robotic security vehicle offering security and inspection solutions across multiple sectors including agriculture, energy and construction. Named ‘ZIVA’, the multi-terrain, high-performance robot...
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