By Jan Cavelle
While overall GDP figures expanded for 11 quarters in a row, the speed of the British manufacturing recovery has slowed and companies are more gloomy about competing in the eurozone.
A few weeks back I attended a technology partners update session and was handed an intelligent power plug; one I could control from my iPhone and that would allow me to turn things on and off from anywhere on the planet. I became a fully paid up member of the Internet of Things (IoT) club.
It’s been said that small businesses were the ones to lead the UK out of the recession. Dubbed the “lifeblood of the economy”, it’s not hard to see why the sector has been subject to so much government focus. But would we be looking at a slightly different picture if Britain only had a total of 100 businesses
A fast growth survey from Barclays quizzed owners and chiefs of British tech companies to find that they’re set to grow four times faster than the GDP in 2015.
By Alice Yehia
Britain’s economic recovery has accelerated in the last quarter of 2013, boosted by a pick-up in business investment and trade, new research revealed.
