If the UK economy is to get back on its feet again, digital will be a key growth sector not just for the capital, but the whole country. It's a sector we must nurture - something that will be achieved through broadening, rather than limiting, the scale of our ambitions.

Since our time working in the startup scene and attending countless entrepreneurial presentations and events in London and abroad, we have been getting a clear sense of what makes London a truly special place to build a startup.

Silicon Valley remains a beacon and it is still growing but the evidence suggests that we are moving to a world where technology centres are spread far and wide. Some will have local specialities.

It's clear that the expansion of East London's Silicon Roundabout - the new hub for media and tech companies - is beginning to gather pace.

For decades now, jealous outsiders have pointed to the vast wealth stemming from Silicon Valley startups and asked, "Why on Earth can't we do that?"

This is an exciting time for East London. The regeneration of the Stratford area will prove one of the lasting Olympic legacies. Tech City, the cluster of digital and technology start-ups around the Old Street Roundabout, has mushroomed to 3,200 companies employing 48,000 people according to a new Centre for London report. In 2008 that number was a mere 15.

There is a lot that London and the UK can offer. London in particular is the mothership of global finance. The media industry is based here along with government and great universities and business schools. Also, English is the native language of the technology industry, so the UK has the advantage over other countries.

The rise of London's tech scene brings up an age old question: is Silicon Valley unique, and can its success be repeated elsewhere? At one point, Boston was the next Silicon Valley. And then Seattle.

An investment bank dedicated to funding technology start-ups has opened its first UK branch. The Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), with assets of more tha...

So, can degrees be written off? May or may not be! Degrees may still matter overall, but the tech world may define a new trend in hiring where it is more your ability to do what you are supposed to rather than hire people with heavy baggage of degrees.

Yahoo is suing Facebook over patents, weeks before the social-networking heavyweight is due to cash in with its initial public offering of stock. Y...

The government's TechCityUK initiative has been making headlines with its aim to rapidly grow the cluster of start-ups in London's Old Street area - dubbed 'Silicon Roundabout' - into a world-class hub for technology innovation.

Of all the appalling confessions I have made on these pages, what follows is perhaps the most damaging. I have never used Facebook. Never in my life h...

Once upon a time, not that long ago, there lived a great number of creative agencies that believed that the art of story telling could assist their cl...

In his autumn statement George Osborne signalled that he would make changes to the UK's VC landscape, to stimulate more seed investment and start-ups. The initial response has been welcoming, but will the changes really help the UK to be more competitive with Silicon Valley?

Tech City, a recent stamp of approval from Whitehall of the Old Street area of London, being a creative 'hub' - how I hate that word, appears to be a top-heavy civil service exercise in cool, band wagon jumping after the band has already played venture. We need to reach out further.

London has the talent and lifestyle to lure investors, and businesses, away from Silicon Valley to the UK, says Ed Vaizey. The minister for Culture...

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....