Trained designer Dave Legion has been working independently in a field he loves for more than a decade, so Real Business caught up with the entrepreneur to find out why he moved into tax and accounting – a sector he admits to loath.
When HotelTonight was created in 2010, it was created on the back of a product vision – but also a people vision. That combination has resulted in the company possessing a carefully crafted culture that houses a motivated workforce and incredible growth metrics, as co-founder and COO Jared Simon has detailed to Real Business.
In a bid to boost international expansion, children’s video learning app Hopster has made two senior technical appointments – including the addition of a Made.com executive – and plans to grow its presence on Apple TV.
After being announced earlier in summer, Apple Pay, the new mobile payments channel from Apple, has officially launched in the UK. As the face of British retail looks set to change forever, business execs from across the country, and those with overseas experience, have offered Real Business their thoughts, some good and some bad, on the arrival of the new technology.
After launching a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube in May, mobile tech company Chirp has beaten its £400,000 investment target with a 188 per cent overfund to enhance its “internet of sound”.
Award-winning singer Taylor Swift has written an open letter to Apple and slammed the tech firm for expecting musicians, particularly new artists, to contribute their work to Apple Music for three months without pay. The company has now backtracked and caved to the demands.
As the fintech market continues to surge, mobile apps have become the number one method for consumers to manage finances, a report from the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) has found.
Shazam, once just a music discovery service, has blossomed over the past few years to support advertisers with TV marketing. Now the company has flexed its muscles to expand beyond sound and into visual recognition technology for its 100m users, and brands including Disney, Evian and Warner Bros – but where does that leave existing players like augmented reality firm Blippar
As online dating becomes increasingly common, businesses need a USP to stand out. Seemingly looking into niche areas is the way forward, as demonstrated with beard-centric offering Bristlr.
The use of augmented reality (AR) technology in the enterprise app space is set to generate $2.4bn revenue in 2019, according to Juniper Research.
