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Crowdcube, the equity crowdfunding platform, is celebrating after its total sum of money raised for startup businesses surpassed £100million.

Over 3 million will benefit from George Osborne’s plans to improve the national living wage, with companies to be ordered to publish their wage details.

Senior decision makers from GB SMEs predict average increase in turnover of 37 per cent over the next five years, according to the 2015 Business Growth survey from Santander Corporate & Commercial.

New research by business data provider Company Check has found that unhappy people are more likely to set up new businesses in the UK and become their own boss than their happier counterparts.

Tablet adoption is speeding up in the workplace, and tablets are predicted to replace laptops within 10 years, according to new research undertaken by EE.

South Africa is the stand out performer in inaugural Barclays Africa Trade Index, followed by Nigeria and Kenya as ‘sleeping giant’ economies offer opportunities for UK exports to triple, reaching $3.6bn by 2020.

Contrary to popular belief, younger office workers in the UK are far more likely to work longer hours than their elders, according a survey commissioned by office search engine OfficeGenie.co.uk.

As eBay turns 20, we look at a few of the reasons why businesses should be celebrating the online market place’s big day.

An independent international study reveals that business leaders identify that the most common cause of wasted time during the workday is inefficient processes and duplicated efforts.

Stress and uncertainty at work are creating a generation of ‘iceberg employees’ whose emotions are so suppressed that they struggle to interact effectively with colleagues and customers.

Ahead of Small Business Advice Week research by the British Standards Institution has revealed that almost half of SMEs don’t feel that their business is operating efficiently.

Asos, the U.K.’s largest online-only fashion retailer, said Chief Executive Officer Nick Robertson will step down, 15 years after he co-founded the business

You might think the developer of Minecraft, who sold his video game to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, would be living the dream but according to a series of tweets over the weekend, Markus “Notch” Persson money does not equal happiness.

The safe deposit company targeted in a £10 million heist in London’s exclusive jewellery disrict Hatton Garden has gone into liquidation.