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Flux opens up its offers platform to the majority of cardholders in the UK

Flux – the UK’s leading digital receipts and offers platform – announces a partnership with Fidel API that will facilitate access to its retailer offers and receive real-time cashback for all UK customers using payment cards connected to the UK’s largest card networks.

University of Lincoln uses AI to grow the UK’s millions of strawberries to perfect ripeness

Biting into the perfect strawberry and savouring its sweetness mostly depends on whether it was picked at the right time. Picking labour accounts for 40% of horticulture production costs, and much of the remaining costs derive from berries being picked at the wrong time, leading to spoilage, or sour under-ripeness.

Business school teams up with entrepreneurs to boost Europe’s development of scaleups

IESE, a business school for executive education has launched the School of Founders (SoF) to foster the development of founders and their teams at fast-growing small and mid-sized companies.

Digital Catapult unveils powerhouse selection of net zero startups

The UK authority on advanced digital technology, Digital Catapult, has unmasked the next generation of net zero startups and scaleups during its FutureScope Industrial Net Zero Showcase.

Top 5 cities for women in tech
This article is part 25 of 27 in the series IWD 2022

As our lives have gone more digital, an increasing number of women are transitioning into areas across tech. So, as tech investment surges across the UK, experts from FDM Group have collected data on the most prosperous cities women can work in.

Supporting Survivors of Financial Crime

Nasdaq has recently announced its partnership with UK-based charity TRIBE Freedom Foundation, a community focused on fighting human trafficking and modern slavery.

Startup C12 & CEA collab for quantum computers

CEA, a French key player in research, development and innovation, and C12 Quantum Electronics, a startup focused on developing the next-generation of quantum computers using carbon nanotubes, announced a partnership to produce the first multi-qubit chips at wafer scale.

Spring statement misses the mark for UK professionals

The Government’s Spring Statement has fallen short for UK professionals as the latest survey from the UK’s leading independent job board, CV-Library, reveals.

The world’s most popular sustainable businesses, according to Google

To celebrate B Corp Month 2022, green energy experts at Uswitch reveal which B Corp certified businesses are the most searched for around the world and which countries have the most sustainable businesses

An exciting new vision to bring coworking to suburbs and investment to the highstreet

Inspired by the shift to flexible working, the founders of both Patch and Tally Market are on a mission to change the way we work, influenced by the Patch vision for ‘Work Near Home’

How will the startups and scaleups market develop in 2022?

Investors’ predictions for the central and eastern Europe tech market for 2022

Startups and investors from around the world gather at Alpha Wolves

The owners of startups and scaleups from Central and Eastern Europe are meeting with investors from all around the world in Poland in April at Alpha Wolves – an exclusive, two-day forum run in a hybrid mode. This is the first such event in the CEE region to be held this year in Warsaw.

Dassault Systèmes supports startup in development of a climate-positive mobility concept

With the help of the 3DEXPERIENCE Works for Startups program and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systèmes, ottobahn is developing a rail-guided, climate-positive gondola service for use in and between cities. After extensive software-based tests in virtual space, 100,000 test kilometres are to be completed from the second half of the year as part of the approval process.

Employee mental health has deteriorated by 14% since start of pandemic

GetApp’s research study reveals that positive mental health has dropped by 14% since the start of the pandemic. Whereas in pre-pandemic times, 66% reported good or excellent mental health, which dropped to 52% in February 2022.

​​​​​​​Google for Startups to supercharge Black-led tech startups

Google for Startups is inviting UK-based Black-led tech startups to apply for this year’s Black Founders Fund worth a total of $4 million (approximately £3 million), in an effort to help tackle the stark inequality in venture capital (VC) funding.

Top 100 next unicorns

Viva Technology in partnership with GP Bullhound today released its 2022 ‘Top 100 Next Unicorns’, its annual list of the 100 most promising scale-ups in Europe (including UK and Israel) – having the attributes to reach a potential valuation of USD 1 billion or more, in the near future.

Could your business handle a four-day week?

We’ve worked from home, we’ve worked hybrid — but could we work less? A four-day working week is the “next, logical and overdue step” in the transformation of the workplace, according to director of the 4 Day Week Campaign, Joe Ryle. The standard working week has not changed in almost a century – are business ready to make the leap? Here, Douglas Mulvihill, marketing manager, UK and Ireland of call centre software provider Ringover, explores the feasibility of the four-day week

Half of UK professionals are planning to go to the office less due to record petrol prices

With petrol prices rising again today and hitting record prices at the pumps, CV-Library gives an insight into its true impact.

Breaking the bias with and in AI
This article is part 23 of 27 in the series IWD 2022

As the world celebrated International Women’s Day on the 8th of March, Sophia the robot spoke on behalf of women at an online panel organised by SingularityNET. The event was livestreamed on the company’s YouTube channel and featured an insightful conversation on how to #BreakTheBias in AI and technology.

IoE Corp raises $4m in mission to sustainably evolve IoT into IoE

IoE Corp, the decentralised software infrastructure IoT cloud alternative, has announced that it has completed a $4m seed round.