Tech City

The Budget's 21st Century Industrial ambition

Damian Collins | Posted 21.05.2012 | UK Politics
Damian Collins

We should have an ambition for a Silicon Valley in Britain based around and extending out of Tech City. The support of the government for this has helped to persuade companies like Google to invest in creative and digital infrastructure in the UK, rather than in other European countries.

Time to Celebrate East London's Silicon Roundabout

Dee Doocey | Posted 12.05.2012 | UK Tech
Dee Doocey

Inner-city roundabouts are not the most obvious places to look for the next generation of digital entrepreneurs, but Old Street is not your usual roundabout.

Young Tech City Entrepreneurs Beat Youth Unemployment

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 20.02.2012 | UK Tech

What do you do when you've just left university and you're faced with the highest youth unemployment since 1992? London's young tech entrepreneurs ...

Should the Government be Doing More to Promote Mobile Health?

Dave Standen | Posted 11.04.2012 | UK Politics
Dave Standen

The beginning of the year is always the best time for wild predictions. So here's one for you: in the very near future smartphones will be the first point of contact for many of us when it comes to healthcare.

Boris Says We'll Never Have A Zuckerberg. Will Nobel Prize-Winners Do?

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 06.02.2012 | UK Tech

Boris Johnson says the UK will never have a Mark Zuckerberg, but would a range of Nobel Prize-winners and quietly successful tech firms do? In Joh...

Boris Johnson: We'll Never Have A Zuckerberg In The UK

Telegraph | Melanie Hick | Posted 07.04.2012 | UK Tech

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...

In Front of Technology Comes Communication

Sachin Patel | Posted 20.03.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Sachin Patel

I distinctly remember being bored by ICT lessons; maybe it was because little focus was paid to the middle-letter in the acronym, which stands for communications

Google's New Offices In London

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 11.02.2012 | UK Tech

How much work would you get done if you worked in an environment like this? Google's new offices in London are the kind of hip and colourful workp...

Melanie Hick

Wikileaks Should Look Out: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales

HuffingtonPost.com | Melanie Hick | Posted 28.12.2011 | UK Tech

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, is ditching Silicon Valley to move to the Silicon Roundabout. Wales, who will thinks Wikipedia should tread...

London's Olympic Legacy: Marking a Year to Go to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Nigel Sheinwald | Posted 25.09.2011 | UK
Nigel Sheinwald

And as much as London 2012 will celebrate Britain's past, it will also highlight Britain's present and future.