Qualcomm’s purchase of Cambridge Silicon Radio for £1.5bn represented the largest technology-based deal announced during 2014, featuring in a list that included companies such as NaturalMotion, Daisy Group and Advanced Computer Software.
The five top female game developers in England have been revealed, and each will receive £3,000 from investment and advisory firm Creative England alongside funding from the public as part of Crowdfunder’s Queen of Code campaign.
It has been revealed that online greetings card company Moonpig.com has taken an API, a tool used for transferring data between software, offline as a flaw was enabling orders to be placed on customer accounts by hackers. A flaw which they knew of way in advance and did nothing about.
Creditsafe research revealed the most searched for companies of 2014. Surprisingly, this cohort was led by Travis Perkins, Britain’s biggest builders’ merchant.
Online ticket sales platform Trainline has outlined plans to join the London Stock Exchange and raise £75m in the process.
3D printing is a big trend. One with big implications for entrepreneurs. If consumers can print products in their own homes there all sorts of commercial implications. Toys could be sold as printer files. Consumers just print out the final product. Lego might find that exciting (or terrifying!).
In June 2014, the Chancellor George Osborne set out plans to make a “Northern powerhouse”. This was in part due to the latest Autumn Statement revealing that employment in the three months to September in northern regions increased by 2.6 per cent, 0.3 per cent higher than the national average. This spoke volumes about the north being one of the centres driving economic growth.
The latest edition of Cebr Global’s World Economic League Table (WELT) for 2015, which is set to track different economies over the next ten years in order to forecast future change in 2030, has seen Britain rise to become Europe’s top economy.
London-listed content distributor Entertainment One has closed its latest acquisition by snapping up a majority stake in The Mark Gordon Company.
US basketball team owner Robert Sarver has had his offer to purchase Rangers FC turned down by the club’s board after it was deemed the proposal undervalued the club.
