Declaring it a UK first, Barclays has revealed plans to let individuals make payments to each other and small businesses via Twitter handles and its Pingit banking app.
Edinburgh-based Camel Audio, a developer of music effects software, is thought to have been acquired by American tech giant Apple.
Companies that ignore digital customer engagement including web chat, social media, text, smartphones, apps and video within the next two years risk losing customers to tech-savvy rivals.
Lightpoint Medical, an innovative medical device company dedicated to improving the health outcome of cancer patients through image-guided surgery, is receiving a £1m government-funded grant and has also attracted further investment which could fast-track its move to market.
Investment firm Worth Capital has launched the Future Gadget 2015 business competition to find Britain's next great gadgets and top entrepreneurial inventors, while Channel 5's The Gadget Show has signed up as a partner.
While corporate finance houses have made a pretty penny selling businesses for decades now, a new online option is threatening to turn the advisor sector on its head.
London, along with New York, is one of the world’s two undisputed global financial centres, well ahead of the Eurozone’s two most significant centres Frankfurt and Paris. But much of this success has come from insurance and financial service exports, which may now be in sharp decline.
The entrepreneurs behind a collapsable watering can came close to securing the £150,000 they were after on the BBC’s Dragons’ Den investment show, but ultimately fell short after revealing a potentially troubling set of affairs.
While previous studies have charted alternative finance in the UK, the market in 2014 at £840m and the year on year growth rate of 90 per cent, EY and the Centre for Alternative Finance at University of Cambridge Judge Business School are the first to cover the whole of Europe in detail.
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