Oxford Science Enterprises is leading a £5m investment into Navenio, an indoor navigation software company that doesn’t require GPS. The company’s technology is used by hospitals to manage health teams as they move around the building. By crowdsourcing data from sensors inside employee smartphones, Navenio doesn’t require additional equipment to be installed. It uses AI ... Read more ›
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The UK and Israel will today sign a tech and innovation collaboration agreement following a meeting in London between the nations’ science ministers. As part of the deal, both nations will commit to supplying £1.7m in support for joint tech projects covering advanced research areas such as quantum. The agreement is part of a longstanding ... Read more ›
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The chancellor is meeting with Silicon Valley tech leaders this week in an effort to drive investment into the UK. Jeremy Hunt will meet with executives from Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet to highlight the UK’s tech sector opportunities. The trip is part of the chancellor and the prime minister’s ambition to make the UK the ... Read more ›
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Revolut has been granted a three-month extension after once again missing the deadline to file its annual financial accounts. The fintech unicorn was initially supposed to file its accounts for 2022 by 30 September on Companies House, the UK’s register of firms. A spokesperson for Revolut said: “We have received an extension for the filing ... Read more ›
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It’s been a huge year for generative AI. You just have to look at the number of products now claiming to have baked-in generative AI, or the swathes of companies eagerly finding ways to implement the technology to realise the effect it is having on the world. ChatGPT, perhaps the best-known example of generative AI, ... Read more ›
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The polarising Online Safety Bill, a piece of legislation granting Ofcom greater authority to scrutinise online content, has been approved by the House of Lords more than a year after it was first introduced in Parliament. The Lords approved the latest amendments today, leaving Royal Assent – the process in which the ruling monarch signs ... Read more ›
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Biotech company Broken String Biosciences is closing a $15m (£12.1m) in Series A investment to support its move into the US. Cambridge-based Broken String Biosciences is developing a DNA mapping platform called INDUCE-seq for cell and gene therapies. The company will use the funding to establish a US office and make new hires at its ... Read more ›
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YFM Equity Partners has led a $8.2m (£6.6m) investment into metaverse intelligence platform Geeiq. Based in London, Geeiq’s data gives businesses insights into the demographics, interests and other brands their audience likes. Brands including Gucci, Porsche and Walmart are customers of Geeiq’s analysis software. “We’re at an inflection point where traditional advertising and social media ... Read more ›
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Ocado Retail has announced a 7.2% bump in sales as it opens its new robotic customer fulfilment centre in Luton. The digital grocer today published its latest financial results, revealing retail revenue had grown to £569.6m in the third quarter, alongside small boosts to orders per week and total customers. Shares in Ocado were up ... Read more ›
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The UK government is investing £1.4m into the Amplify Venture, a programme to help underserved London-based founders. Amplify Venture is aiming to tackle the funding balance in the UK’s venture capital industry. It cited statistics that show for every £1 of UK venture capital investment, less than 1p is invested into entirely female-founded businesses. Launched ... Read more ›
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Former GCHQ boss Sir Jeremy Fleming has been appointed the chair of the recently established security tech investment firm Gallos Technologies. Fleming will serve as the chair of the investor’s strategic advisory board, where he will guide the firm’s direction as it backs early-stage security startups. As the British cyber intelligence chief, Fleming oversaw the ... Read more ›
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The UK’s competition regulator has issued guidance for businesses on the use of AI foundation models amid an explosion in the popularity of tools like ChatGPT. Its suggestions come after a review of the technology and aims to promote competition and protect consumers. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has put forward seven potential steering ... Read more ›
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The digital markets bill risks undermining investment, innovation and the rule of law, according to a new paper from a free market think tank. The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill proposes giving the UK’s competition regulator greater powers to police the actions of Big Tech firms such as Amazon, Alphabet and Meta. But giving ... Read more ›
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Venture capital firm Northern Gritstone is contributing capital to clean tech company C-Capture’s ongoing funding round, which it is targeting a close of up to £10m. C-Capture has devised a way to extract the carbon dioxide created by commercial manufacturing from the atmosphere. It can then send this captured CO2 for storage in geological reserves. ... Read more ›
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A Newcastle-based spinout developing technology to instruct protein cells to grow in a certain way for research or commercial use has scooped up £500,000 in seed funding. MarraBio is creating alternatives to bioactive proteins that the company says can “mimic” conventional protein function. The startup claims its protein alternative is both cheaper and has a ... Read more ›
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Digital advertising firm S4 Capital has cut 500 jobs as its share value plunged following a poor performance update stemming from spend-shy tech clients. The digital marketing group, founded by ad veteran Sir Martin Sorrell, lost around 25% of its value Monday morning after it predicted a drop in cash flow in its latest revenue ... Read more ›
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Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has outlined a plan to help developing nations improve skills and innovation in AI as part of a wider United Nations initiative. Cleverly, speaking at the UN General Assembly on Monday, is expected to call on international partners to collaborate in the AI for Development programme. It is being launched in ... Read more ›
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British semiconductor firm Imagination Technologies has registered to go public in New York in what could be the latest blow to the London Stock Exchange. Just days after Cambridge-based Arm completed the biggest IPO of the year on the Nasdaq – snubbing London – fellow chip designer Imagination has announced its intention to go public ... Read more ›
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Albert Einstein single-handedly developed the theory of relativity. Galileo revolutionised our understanding of the universe by inventing the telescope on his own. And Marie Curie, virtually alone, pioneered the discovery and use of X-rays. These individuals did incredible things for science – a while ago. Science is a different type of enterprise today. It’s dependent, ... Read more ›
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Revolut is yet to submit an official application for its US banking licence after taking the preliminary steps over two years ago. The fintech giant submitted a draft banking application with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in March 2021. The filing was a first step in plans to offer full banking service to its ... Read more ›
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