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It's hard to avoid the increasing prevalence of drones, but in case you were in any doubt this artwork—Under the Shadow of the Drone—serves as a stark reminder that they're increasingly filling our skies.Read more...
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Editor’s note: Craig Le Grice is a member of BIMA‘s Executive Committee, and Chair of the organisation’s Silicon Roundabout group, he is an industry advocate for entrepreneurship and next generation talent. Follow him on Twitter: @craiglegrice.
Silicon Roundabout, Tech City, Old Street Roundabout – whatever you call it, the still-gritty area of East London has been getting a lot of atte..
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Pressure is mounting on web giants Amazon and Google as a series of whistleblowers have put a question mark over their UK tax arrangements. Both companies have been accused of disguising the full extent of their UK-based activities to avoid paying tax.
At a Public Accounts Committee hearing on May 16 chairperson Margaret Hodges accused Google of "deliberately mani..
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Smartphone penetration in the UK has reached 67 percent and in the three month average ending March 2013, over 33.4 million Brits owned a smartphone.
The growth of smartphone ownership provides advertisers with more opportunities to reach their target audience on the move. A comparison of multiple mobile ad formats shows that UK smartphone users aged 18-24 have an especially high recall of mobil..
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One man’s trash is another man’s treasure! For this series, illustrator Kyle Bean sat down to create a portrait, but once he sharpened his pencil, he put it down, using only the shavings to create facial details. He arranged colored pencil shavings in a precise way to create depth and texture to re-create the faces of contributors to Wallpaper’s ‘Handmade issue’. The UK based desig..
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Pinterest is tweaking its photo-sharing network for users in the UK with some additional features to encourage people to upload more content and engage with other people.
To begin with, Pinners based in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be suggested a larger number of pins and accounts created by other users in the same region. It seems a bit of an odd choice, given that Pintere..
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Massive business consultancy company Accenture has acquired Fjord, a london-based design agency. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Accenture, which is one of the one of the largest consulting firms in existence, claims that Fjord’s design capabilities will complement the services it already offers through Accenture Interactive. Beyond this vague statement, Fjord should further ..
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Photo by TotallySalindaCharlie Burton is the owner of The Natural Wedding Company, a top UK online directory and blog for planning an eco-friendly, seasonal, vintage and handmade wedding. Listing over 300 wedding suppliers, the directory includes eco-chic venues, seasonal flowers, handcrafted stationery, ethical rings, and vintage hire. As well as running the directory and blog, Charlie is a fea..
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“I have few average days,” says Horace Dediu, one of the most well-respected watchers of the mobile industry, and Apple in particular, when asked about how he fills his time while running the Asymco blog and consultancy.
“Right now it’s 2am and I’m in Australia. If I am at home my work is usually a few hours of reading and email followed by about 2 to 3 hours writing a post. If I have ..
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Google is set to be asked to explain its business and tax arrangements in the UK once more, according to comments from the head of a UK parliamentary committee investigating the Internet giant.
Last November, Google, Starbucks and Amazon were quizzed over their tax payments and now Reuters reports that Margaret Hodge, head of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), will contact Google’s UK rep..
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Early-stage startups in London already have a number of choices when it comes to co-working with their peers and another one has now emerged. Warner Yard (website not yet live at the time of writing) is particularly notable because it will be attracting investors as well as startups to work from the space, and the TechStars London accelerator has chosen it as its home.
Warner Yard is the brainc..
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Unrivaled in their field, Rapha never misses an opportunity to impress with impeccably crafted, aesthetically superior soft goods designed for the city dwelling cycling enthusiast. As long time supporters of the UK-based brand, we were excited to learn about their upcoming spring...
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Established in 1826, Teddy Gray’s Confectionery has been a family-owned and run business from the very start. Passed down through five generations — with three generations working under the same roof, even today — this small British factory looks much like it must have one hundred years ago, filled with oversize copper boilers, candy twisted by hand, and nary a computer in sight. Though ..
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EE, the UK’s first 4G operator, has announced that it has reached 318,000 4G subscribers five months after the launch of its LTE service. The operator says it remains on course to pass 1 million 4G subscribers by the end of the year.
The figures — released today as EE reveals its results for the first quarter of 2013 — include £1,422 million in revenue ($2.2 million), which is up 5.4 perc..
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A new UK startup is bringing one-hour grocery deliveries to the UK. PocketShop has opened up to initially serve a handful of postcodes in north London, but plans to expand to cover the whole of the city by the end of the summer.
Super-fast delivery of essential provisions is becoming increasingly popular in the USA, with Instacart, Postmates and even Google all running limited services. Now if y..
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New figures released by the BBC today reveal that in March this year, tablet use of its iPlayer on-demand catch-up service was higher than mobile use for the first time ever.
The number of requests for iPlayer streams on tablets exceeded those on mobile devices by 200,000, with TV viewing being the main driver of this switch. The figure indicates that viewers prefer the tablet form factor for T..
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Payleven, the Rocket Internet-backed mobile payment startup, has moved beyond catering for business users and opened its service up to individual members of the public.
The change to allow anyone to receive payment via the service has initially gone live in the UK, and it will “shortly” roll out in the company’s other markets, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Brazil. Like merch..
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The introduction of a tax relief for UK video game developers has a hit another roadblock today, after the European Commission announced that it would be conducting a fresh investigation to see if it was a sensible use of taxpayer’s money.
The subsidy was unveiled by Chancellor George Osborne in last year’s budget. It was intended to kick in on April 1, 2013 and would involve a 25 percent ta..
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Fast-growing companies like Huddle and Teambox are slowly but surely chipping away at Microsoft SharePoint’s market share. After all, organizations are increasingly finding cloud-based collaboration software products more suited to their needs than Microsoft’s offering, but they also typically come at a lower price and with greater flexibility.
Enter BCSocial, a fledgling London startup that..
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With vibrant color splashes, drips, and splotches, Rowan Newton creates paintings as gorgeous as they are colorful. The UK-based artist has been drawn to street art since he was a young boy growing up in the city of Brixton. Much like graffiti artists transform unlikely spaces into art, he likes to use wood or cardboard as the canvas for his paintings, and stylizes them in a similar fashion.
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Mobile network operator O2 has unveiled a new contract plan in the UK today called O2 Refresh, which separates the cost of the handset and the user’s airtime plan.
The tariff will be available in-store from April 16 and allows consumers to upgrade their handset at any time.
It’s a 24-month contract, but the user chooses a phone plan separately. The idea, similar to what T-Mobile USA introduc..
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Private business information service Duedil (short for ‘due diligence’, get it?) is today announcing that it has closed its Series A round of funding, raising $5 million in fresh cash.
The financing round was led by Notion Capital and Oak Investment Partners, with participation from early Spotify backer Shakil Khan and prior investors. Duedil has earlier raised money from Passion Capital and..
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Kabbee, a price comparison service for private minicabs in London, has partnered with Cordic today in order to add location-based data to the software used by its network of drivers.
Passengers who book a journey through the Kabbee website, iOS or Android app will now have their position automatically “dropped” into the despatch software used by minicab companies.
The information will then b..
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Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, passed away today after suffering from a stroke. The longest-serving Prime Minister of the 20th century, Thatcher also holds the distinction of being the only woman to hold the post. She has died at 87-years-old.
Below, some TED Talks that examine Thatcher’s legacy — in politics, social policy, even science fundin..
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Londoners are spoiled for choice, but that doesn’t make planning easy. Between aggressive bouncers, lost reservations and a Tube that closes notoriously early, a night out in the UK capital can quickly turn cumbersome. Luckily, there are plenty of apps to plan outings from future concerts to real-time pub crawls. Here are some tried and true favorites to design your evening.
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Photo by CHIESHOPEvery day, our community grows in unexpected and delightful ways. For our Fresh Shops series, sellers who have been on Etsy for a handful of months or are waiting for those first few sales introduce themselves. Here’s a warm welcome to all our newbies!
My name is Chie Miyazaki, and I make ceramics for my shop, CHIESHOP. I am currently based in London, England.
I was bor..
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Liverpool Football Club is rolling out a new WiFi network in its stadium, as it looks to capitalize on the growth of digital content created and shared during matches.
The words ‘football’ and ‘digital’ are becoming increasingly intertwined, as the corporate behemoths of Europe’s elite strive to better engage their fans, glean data and, well, generally know more about them. Just ask Ma..
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York is to become the first city in the United Kingdom with a network of pay-as-you-go charging points for electric cars. The fueling stations will be installed in numerous car parks and ‘park and ride’ sites, and join the 12 charging points already spread out across the city.
Electric cars seem like a great solution to society’s age-old problem surrounding fossil fuel consumption. The des..
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Facebook could be continuing to roll out its free VoIP calling beyond the US and to other platforms. We have heard that in the UK, Facebook users are getting an updated Facebook Messenger app for Android that allows calls to be made. This news comes days after the social network company updated its iOS app with the free calling service.
The UK is Facebook’s third country it has launched VoIP c..
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Hot on the heels of the launch of a paywall at the UK’s Telegraph newspaper today, it looks like the best-selling newspaper in the country, The Sun, is set to do the same.
The Guardian reports that Mike Darcey, the recently-appointed chief executive of News Corporation’s UK newspaper division News International, told press at an informal event today that offering The Sun’s content online..
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In the run up to this year’s The Next Web Conference Europe, we’ve been running Startup Awards competitions and meetups in countries across the continent over the past two months. Now that we’re back home and have recovered from get-togethers in 12 cities, it’s time to round up all the winners.
Winners were selected from public nominations and public voting, with oversight from The Next ..
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The social networking giant Facebook back in early-January updated its free Messenger app with the ability to share audio snippets, having added that feature to its official iOS client, also a free download, later that month. Initially only available to Canadian and North American users, today the company has expanded in-app voice calling to people in the United Kingdom in the form of a quiet ba..
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Facebook has updated its iOS Messenger app in the UK today to include VoIP calling, just as it does in the US and Canada. This feature is live now – it doesn’t require you to download an updated version of the app.
You may remember back in January, we reported that Facebook pushed updates to its Messenger app in Canada which included a potentially disruptive feature: voice calling and mess..
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Richard Branson are both on the judging panel to help Google find the UK’s top social entrepreneurs.
As the Guardian reports, Google’s Global Impact Challenge is seeking applicants to submit a technology-based project with “the potential to change society on a large scale.”
Applications are open from now until April 17, 2013, with Google announcing ten finalis..
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Every two weeks, we’re following Chris Bradley in his Suitcase Startup mission, as he travels around his adopted home of London, armed only with a suitcase and a dream, meeting people who can help him launch his company, Publicate.
In episode 5 we join Chris and newly announced co-founder Anastasia Emmanuel at SXSW, where Publicate is trying to make a name for itself by talking to as many i..
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