Ecommerce firm hires former Skyscanner director
Analytics firm e.fundamentals has appointed former Skyscanner director Greg Urquhart to its board of directors. He joins the company as chief technology officer and will be based in Edinburgh with...
Digital graduates ‘failing to make the grade’ in jobs market
Almost a third of IT graduates are dropping out of the sector and failing to convert their qualifications into jobs, according to a survey. The survey, commissioned by independent IT recruitment...
The key to success; embracing challenges head-on
In this interview, Olga Melnyk, Director of Fabrix Cloud at Hutchinson Networks, talks about her journey from the Ukraine to leading a business unit at one of Scotland’s leading technology...
Scotland’s life sciences sector secures record equity investment
Scotland’s life sciences companies have raised a record £85m in equity investment during the past year, including a surge in international venture capital support, according to new figures released by...
Ergonomic data capture, robotics, and smart irrigation among knowledge exchange winners
The people and partnerships at the heart of ground-breaking and potentially life-changing innovations developed by businesses and academics have been unveiled at the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards 2019. Winners included...
Scotland could “revolutionise” the world’s response to natural disasters with new breed of satellites, says top academic
A new breed of smaller satellites being manufactured in Scotland could “revolutionise” the world’s response to natural disasters by providing vital tracking data to first responders, a leading academic has...
Catering software firm eyes slice of American pie after £575,000 investment
Catering management software company Spoonfed is planning an expansion in the US, following £575,000 of development funding from Equity Gap. Aimed specifically at contract catering firms and restaurants supplying catering...
Welcome to ‘Mirrorworld’
The first big technology platform was the web, which digitised information, subjecting knowledge to the power of algorithms; it came to be dominated by Google. The second great platform was...
Future of cybersecurity, data & AI – as well as Donald Trump’s tweets – to be explored as part of ‘digital frontiers’ at Edinburgh Science Festival
The future of cybersecurity, data and Artificial Intelligence – as well as whether Donald Trump’s tweets reveal anything about the US President’s sanity – are set to be among the...
Social enterprise for IT consultants on the autism spectrum opens in Scotland
A social enterprise which employs IT consultants on the autism spectrum has launched a base in Edinburgh, its first in the UK outside London, as part of a strategy to...

