Glasgow’s Axis Studios Group scales up virtual reality operations
Axis Studios Group (Axis), the Glasgow-based collective of animators, artists, producers and directors, today launched a new virtual reality (VR) experience to expand its capabilities in the medium. Founded in...
Record number of women join the technology sector in Scotland
The number of women joining the technology sector has risen in Scotland by more than 30%, according to new research published by Skills Development Scotland. Analysis of the most recent...
Scottish digital leaders selected for ‘creative training boost’
TRC, a Glasgow-based training provider for broadcast and digital, has announced the candidates for Cross Creative – a high-end training programme for Scottish business leaders working in digital and tech...
Facebook unveils ‘Portal’, a video chat camera that uses AI to keep users in frame
Facebook has released a video calling device, although the company’s recent problems with privacy and the product’s price and functionality could slow it from taking on market leaders Amazon and...
Edinburgh legaltech startup shortlisted for Amazon growing business award
Edinburgh-based legaltech startup SnapDragon has been shortlisted in the 20th annual Amazon Growing Business Awards, which takes place in London next month, with founder Rachel Jones nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year....
Women stand by women in tech
I was invited to speak at Digital Woman Scotland 2018 and during the conference I heard many voices from women in tech advising that they were finding it very difficult...
Scottish companies win £1.7m UK Government funding for healthcare innovation
Three Scottish companies are to receive funding for health tech research as part of the UK Government investment in developing technology to transform health and social care. The projects are...
UK could go it alone on digital services tax
The UK will unilaterally implement a digital service tax if there is no wider international agreement soon on how to tax the world’s biggest Internet companies, Philip Hammond, Chancellor of...
Tim Berners-Lee launches company to develop ‘the next stage of the web’
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, says it has “evolved into an engine of inequity and division; swayed by powerful forces who use it for their own...
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