Justin Bieber, the 19-year-old pop singer whose Believe tour has scarcely left the media over the last few weeks, created an international outcry after leaving a message in the guestbook of the Anne Frank Museum. His message read "Truly inspiring to be able to come here....

Have you had enough of pitches that rely more on their videos, flashy graphics and buzzwords than their content. Do you want to be able to show others your product in all it's naked glory (or otherwise!) and be able to get honest and constructive feedback where you need it....

James Dance, 26, is looking to change his future during the recession and that of one of the many London pubs that are falling on hard times. Through the crowdsourcing platform Indiegogo he aims to raise $50,000 (£31,000) to launch what he calls "London's first ever dedicated video...

Student Upstarts, an organisation aiming to support student entrepreneurs, is holding an October meetup on the 23rd October. Student Upstarts was founded in 2012 with the aim of investing up to £15,000 in 100 student businesses by the end of 2015. They...

London has a fast growing tech scene and a healthily growing range of events on its calendar. From the fantastic Silicon Drinkabout team to the great courses of the General Assembly there are many opportunities would be startup entrepreneurs to hone their skills and...

This morning I'm off to Birmingham for the Conservative Party Conference and that's why an email that came across my inbox from a project called Oxygen Accelerator today was particularly interesting.

The project, based in Birmingham's booming tech scene, called Oxygen Accelerator is...

The hysteria around the launch of the latest iteration of Apples wildly popular phone is
being utilised by two entrepreneurs and one of London's newest startups to benefit charity.
Being in the front spot in the queue for the launch of the...

Last night I had the pleasure of attending the BAFTA Annual Television Lecture. The guest speaker, Armando Iannucci the creator of The Thick Of It and Veep, gave a lecture entilted 'Fight, fight, fight' which I think accurately sums up the situation that broadcasters now find themselves in.

What became...

Yesterday I caught up with Eric Brotto the lead organiser of London Startup Weekend. Startup Weekend is a worldwide organisation of entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It claims to be the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with...

My girlfriend was spending the evening on Facebook (evidently far more interesting than talking to me) and she was prompted by Facebook to fill in a survey. This was an official survey which appeared in the top half of page above the newsfeed and...

Lately I've found myself spending ever more time on app.net both exploring the vast and growing ecosystem of apps and monitoring the fascinating global stream. On the day that twitter launched its new API v1.1 which restricted a number of clients user token limits and has been seen as a...

Sorted provides users with access to a hyper local mobile marketplace where you can buy and sell literally anything. If you're after a gardener, football tickets or maybe even just looking to sell some of those old books then Sorted wants to help...

Admit it, we all think it. Everyone wonders what that trip out would have been like if you'd had your own chauffeur. Well the classy alternative to the traditional London black can is here. Uber has hopped over the pond to offer Londoners...

Lately you would have found quite hard to not have read, heard or seen anything about Dalton Caldwell's audacious proposal to create his own paid social platform where users and developers lie at its core rather than advertisers.

The proposal kicked off with a website at join.app.net...

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of attending Digital Sizzle 6 organised by a company called 3 Beards who host the remarkably popular staple of the London startup calendar Silicon Drinkabout. The event was held in the fantastic location of the rooftop of the Southbank Centre.

The entire event oozed...

We've all seen scams, we've all received and I dare to say many of us have fallen prey to scams. The only comfort after this is that you know your on the right side of the law and your scammer is on the wrong side, eventually (you hope) the law...

The past decade has been an amazing time for the tech industry. The internet has changed so much in the past 10 years, that it is barely recognizable. From the 90s, when the world wide web was still in its infancy and everyone had a stack of AOL trial membership...

At the launch of Windows 8 Microsoft fired off dozens of announcements and showed off countless features of the new OS. Attendees of the build conference in Anaheim, California saw features such as the Metro interface, support for touchscreens, improved performance and a Windows Store for apps are making headlines.

The area where the Conservatives and Liberals differ most is on what Enoch Powell called "The National Question". These are the questions of identity that can be all consuming for political activists. They include Britain's place in the world, the question of immigration and questions about assimilation and just what...

The West Lothian Question was originally raised by the Scottish opponent of devolution, Tam Dalyell, who was the Labour MP for the Scottish constituency of West Lothian. His question was:

For how long will English constituencies and English Honourable members tolerate...at least 119 Honourable Members from Scotland, Wales and Northern...