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• November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18

  Non-invasive, AI-powered cardiac test spreads through NHS with help of government funding

  A cardiac test powered by artificial intelligence has the potential to save the UK’s health service hundreds of pounds per heart patient

• November 09, 2018 09 Nov'18

  Businesses can no longer neglect IT if they want to remain competitive

  Businesses lack IT leaders with the skills and resources needed to promote innovation and change in the context of technological upheaval

• November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18

  Dominic Raab: UK AI sector will get boost from EU exit ‘done right’

  Brexit secretary tells Tech Nation audience that leaving the EU could create opportunities for the UK technology sector

• November 05, 2018 05 Nov'18

  Accelerator for female-led ‘social tech’ startups opens in London

  We in Social Tech will support the growth of 60 businesses over the next 18 months through bespoke business consultancy packages

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  PoliceTech report looks at how startups can work with UK police

  A new report looking at how startups can penetrate the policing market has been released, but there are still a number of practical and ethical challenges facing SMEs moving into the space

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Jlab 2019 to focus on experiential shopping

  Each year, John Lewis hosts a number of retail startups intent on using technology to transform the industry. Next year they will be aiming to change the customer experience in-store

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Robotic delivery service hits the streets of Milton Keynes

  Following extensive testing and a limited commercial roll-out in campus enterprise environments, Estonian robotics firm Starship Technologies is launching a direct-to-consumer robot delivery service in Milton Keynes

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  How Bahrain plans to become a regional fintech hub

  Bahrain is a small island with big plans for its financial technology industry

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  IoT R&D projects missed out on £10m of government funding

  A series of delays and disruption caused chiefly by changes in project ownership meant the government’s IoT UK Research and Innovation Programme failed to use a quarter of its allocated budget between 2015 and 2018

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Traditional financial services firms face extinction within 12 years

  A large number of large banks could disappear within 12 years unless they change business models and economics

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Nordic banks target SME customers with fintech services

  Traditional Nordic banks are slimming down workforces as they turn increasingly to technology-based service delivery, and some are linking up with small fintech companies to deliver online products.

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  UK unicorn creation goes unrivalled in Europe

  The UK's regional cities are creating more billion-dollar tech startups than many European capitals, with the UK as a whole creating more unicorns since 2016 than France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  SMEs use fintech in fight against online giants, but fears remain

  Online SMEs are turning to financial technology to help them make payment processes easy for customers as they try to compete with online giants

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  Government to invest an extra £215m in UK innovation centres

  The extra funding will be given to the Catapult network of innovation centres, focusing on digital, medicines discovery, future cities and transport systems

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  Identity and access management is becoming a vital business concern

  Many companies are struggling to provide secure access to the high number of applications and systems in use by their employees