Gamban: How my former gambling addiction gave me my business idea
Beating an addiction isn’t easy. For Jack Symons, gambling was his vice. Overcoming his addiction led to him founding a revolutionary app, Gamban. Here’s his business story.
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Groubook: Lessons from launching a hospitality app in the pandemic
Groubook: East Midlands businessmanBradley Gough launches a business during the pandemic in the hospitality sector despite devastation in industry.
I tried: Gaining crystal-clear vision over each individual thought
By Darren Fell
Our I Tried series has seen numerous business owners trial methods and technologies to increase productivity or work output. The latest in the hot seat, Darren Fell, delivers the Insight he got from an app.
“Missing compliance deadlines” There’s a free app for that
SMEs are the bedrock of this country, let’s make sure they?re filing their compliance returns on time, says PwC’s Suzanne Houghton. In the age of the smartphone, here’s how a handy free app aims to help SMEs meet their filing deadlines.
Urb-it: Using human interaction to foster community and save high streets
A talk with Urb-it’s UK managing director, Neville James, unveils the importance of human interaction, be it in terms of customer service or, indeed, as a potential method for saving London’s high streets.
The title of entrepreneur no longer holds a sway on whether you get right-swiped on Tinder
At the beginning of the year, dating app Tinder unveiled a new feature which enabled users to reveal their jobs – something it said had resulted in more matches to prospective partners. Six months later, it’s used the feature to find out which jobs are right-swiped most often.
what3words: The tech solving the world’s navigation problems, three little words at a time
Aiming to solve the world’s GPS and navigation problems, giving an address to the four billion people without one, what3words is one of the most innovative and far-reaching companies to feature in our Everline Future 50 2016 cohort.
Disney to take on Netflix with launch of video-streaming service in Britain
Family entertainment giant Disney is set to launch a subscription-based video streaming service in the UK, becoming the biggest media company yet to directly stream its own content online.
Investor buys a record 500,000 of gold through an app
London-based BullionVault – the world’s largest gold and silver online market – has received its largest ever trade through a smartphone app.
Snapchat starts rolling out additional monetisation plans
Having shunned repeated approaches from Facebook to acquire it, and reportedly recently been under the microscope of Alibaba as a potential purchase, multimedia messaging platform Snapchat has unveiled maiden in-app purchases as it looks to build revenues.