Three quarters of UK business owners struggle to find the right employees according to new research.
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The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Reuben Singh Launches Scholarship for business leaders of tomorrow
Successful business leader and entrepreneur, Reuben Singh, is offering a helping hand to the start up tycoons of tomorrow.
Nationwide set to use automation to boost productivity
Tata Consultancy Services partners with Nationwide Building Society to provide ignio neural automation system.
2.3 million digital workers required by 2020 to power the UK’s digital economy
The UK’s Northern powerhouse is currently at risk due to low levels of job creation.
Twitter launches Moments to help users follow breaking news
Twitter has launched a new curation tool called Moments, which lets users keep up with the best of what’s happening at any given time — without having to follow loads of new people or watch local trends like a hawk.
Two-thirds of investors could be unwittingly supporting unethical industries
An alarming number of UK investors are unaware of which industries their investments are financing, and could potentially be invested in activities they are morally or ethically opposed to, new research shows.
IPsoft humanises artificial intelligence with the next generation of its cognitive agent
IPsoft have announced Version 2.0 of Amelia, its artificial intelligence platform that automates knowledge work across a broad range of business functions. The new updates bring Amelia closer to achieving near human cognitive capabilities and will be demonstrated for the first time at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando by IPsoft CEO, Chetan Dube.
From Cheers to Cheese as Lord Bilimoria launches new photo-sharing app
Entrepreneur and cross-bench peer Lord Bilimoria has launched new photo-sharing app – PictoSo – with his cousin and business partner, Rashid Bilimoria, a tech entrepreneur based in Boston, Massachusetts, and app developer Philipp Reisinger
Tech City UK Builds Out Digital Business Academy as 18,000 People Enrol
Tech City UK’s dedicated skills programme, Digital Business Academy, has launched three new courses for anyone in the UK who want to start, run, or join a digital business.
TransferWise co-founders named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year UK 2015 winners
TransferWise co-founders, Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Käärmann, have been named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year UK 2015 winners.
Peeple app taken down after online backlash
Peeple, a controversial online app described as ‘Yelp for humans’ has disappeared from the web.
AppBox Beta launches the University ‘App-rentice’ to fire up UK Silicon Valley
In a bid to uncover and nurture the brightest technology minds in Britain’s universities, mobile application software company, AppBox Beta has teamed up with London university gaming societies to launch the ‘App-rentice’, an app development competition.
Young entrepreneurs lead the growth charge
Young entrepreneurs aged under 35 are on average twice as ambitious about their company’s growth prospects and four times as likely to hire new staff than older generations of business owners, according to a new report
Cash for complaints: no thanks – we’re British
Research busts myth that the UK has developed a compensation culture
Sup app lands $1.1M in seed funding
Sup – a new app that helps millennials see their friends more – launches with $1.1 million in seed funding from JamJar.
