Hard Brexit or soft Brexit, does it matter? October 17, 2016 So is it going to be a “hard” or a “soft” Brexit? Since our new Prime Minister began to lay out her Brexit negotiating stance this question has become a persistent preoccupation, particularly in business circles. To consider the answer we need to separate the politics of hard and soft, from the financial and stock [...]
This company is the biggest winner from the Metropolitan Police’s huge police body camera roll out October 17, 2016 Some 22,000 police officers across London will start being equipped with body cameras from today, more than any other city in the world – and one company will be the big winner. The Metropolitan Police will begin rolling out the technology to 22,000 front line officers across London's 32 boroughs after a successful trial last year. The company supplying [...]
Five things Elon Musk’s mysterious delayed product launch could be October 17, 2016 Is there anyone as mysterious as Elon Musk on Twitter? The Tesla founder has sent analysts and investors into a frenzy of speculation after he posted a single, two-sentence tweet late last night. Moving the Tesla announcement to Wednesday. Needs a few more days of refinement. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 16, 2016 The news [...]
Here’s how HS2 and Hinkley could be delayed by Brexit October 17, 2016 Some of Britain's biggest infrastructure projects could face serious delays as a result of Brexit, the country's top engineers have warned. The engineering industry, which contributes £280bn to the economy, has said that a restriction on access to skills could delay the building of major infrastructure projects such as HS2 and Hinkley Point C power station, [...]
London can become home of the ‘decacorn’ – and create its very own Apple, Google or Facebook October 17, 2016 If 2015 was the year of the unicorn, 2016 has been the year of the decacorn. Supercell, a Finnish game developer, earlier this year became Europe’s first ever $10bn (£8.2bn) technology company. Even a few years ago, commentators did not believe the European technology sector could achieve this milestone. Now, it is evident that London [...]
Wearable health tech firm Dexcom will redefine what is possible in managing personal healthcare October 17, 2016 | City Talk Digital healthcare has emerged as one of the central tenets of what’s been described by the World Economic Forum as the fourth industrial revolution. Technology has the ability to transform not only clinical diagnosis and treatments, but also empower individuals to take greater control over their own health. Take the subject of diabetes management. In [...]
Morning Wire talk with Bink cofounders Lee Clarke and Greg Gormley about resuscitating the loyalty marketing industry October 17, 2016 The road to a cashless society has been a fairly smooth one so far – the ubiquity of contactless payments and online shopping have made it so. But where cash may have once made your wallet bulge, often the weight has been replaced with a deck of loyalty cards. Before we’re quite done eradicating cash, [...]
Meet the founder of Happn – the dating app putting love on the map October 17, 2016 Nearly one in 10 Londoners use dating app Happn. A colleague who’s more in the know than I am tells me it’s “recently become enormous on Instagram” – users can upload pictures direct from one to the other, with 30 of your most recent appearing automatically on your Happn profile. And once you’ve liked someone, [...]
Construction begins on the £200m research vessel that the public tried to name Boaty McBoatface October 17, 2016 Construction will today be launched on a new state-of-the-art research ship that members of the public attempted to brand “Boaty McBoatface”. Work on the £200m ship, now named RRS Sir David Attenborough, will be launched by the famed naturalist himself, who will initiate the lifting of the first 100 tonne hull unit in Birkenhead later today. [...]
Misys cuts float value as Brexit volatility bites October 16, 2016 Financial technology company Misys has been forced to cut the value of its pending market flotation due to Brexit-induced market volatility. The company is the latest in a string of firms that has had to dial back or call off plans to list as a result of the UK’s shock vote to quit the European Union [...]