MyCelsius, the UK-based innovator in personal cooling technology, has launched its highly anticipated MyCelsius Cooling Bracelet – a discreet, stylish, and science-driven wearable designed to offer cooling comfort during hot flushes; whether that be due to menopause and hormonal changes or stress and anxiety.
The scope of Natalya Segal’s influence on the field becomes clear in her patent record. Segal and her team filed a graphics rendering patent addressing visual synchronization (US20120262463A1), smart rendering optimization, and cloud-based GPU usage – work that anticipated both cloud gaming and the GPU infrastructure now essential to AI development, with the patent later acquired by Google. Her subsequent wearable technology patents (US 9,955,286; US 10,225,721; US 10,959,099 (2021)) have been cited by Apple in multiple filings, as well as by Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, Dell, Sony, and Microsoft. Whether in cloud infrastructure or wearable interfaces, her work sits at the architectural foundation of modern computing.
HMRC’s Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self-Assessment (MTD ITSA) represents one of the most significant changes to UK tax administration in recent years. Sole traders, landlords, and freelancers with an income of £50,000 who previously filed a single annual tax return will instead be required to provide quarterly digital updates, along with a final end-of-period statement, using HMRC-compatible software.
Bronto announced it has raised $14 million in seed funding led by Cercano Management – alongside Heavybit and Conviction Capital – to re-invent logging from end to end.
The venture capital landscape is undergoing a profound structural shift, one that necessitates a strategic re-evaluation of capital deployment strategies. For the last decade, the industry trended toward the generalist mega-fund, vehicles designed to capture every stage and sector. Today, however, that model is facing structural pressures.
Australia’s innovation ecosystem is consolidating its position among the most dynamic globally, with almost 1,600 tech scaleups identified and over $36billion in capital raised, according to the Tech Scaleup Australia 2025 Report presented today by Mind the Bridge and ACCIONA at the MTB Scaleup Summit Sydney 2025.
Content marketing has been something of a golden child for companies, recently. SMEs and other firms have been happy to invest heavily in the likes of online articles and blogs, video, e-books, and research reports with the aim of driving customer numbers. According to my company’s research, 91% of marketers have increased their content budgets since 2020
In a world where our daughters won’t see gender pay parity in their entire careers and there are still three times more men named “John” running UK FTSE 100 companies than women, we’re facing a crisis of invisible women in the workplace.
By 2050, one in six people worldwide will be over 65. In Europe, it will be closer to one in three. Although this stems from the positive reality of longer lives and better health, healthcare systems built for younger, shorter-lived populations now face the growing burdens of chronic disease, multimorbidity, and long-term care. And while we can celebrate the advancements that have taken us here, the ageing population is certainly an economic challenge that we must adapt to.
365 Finance has reported that during the last 12 months, 32% of applicants for its revenue-based funding have been women – which is a significant increase on previous years.
Start Up Loans, part of the British Business Bank, has announced that the programme has delivered more than 9,500 loans worth more than £100 million to founders from across the East of England.
Chatfuel has announced an evolution in workflow intelligence with a comprehensive AI-native operating system for SMBs. Trained on over 150 billion customer conversations, the solution empowers over 100 million SMB owners to shift from manual engagement to revenue growth by reimagining the sales cycle – from first lead to loyal customer – in a 30-second setup.
Digital startups throughout the West Midlands are set to benefit from a wealth of increased investment opportunities, expert support services, and methods to introduce AI integration, all designed to help reinforce the West Midlands as a global tech powerhouse.
The Framing Effect is all about perception. The way you frame or present the same thing changes how people perceive it. Customers don’t just react to the facts; they react emotionally to how those facts are shown. The roots of the idea go back to the work of Tversky & Kahneman (1981), applied in marketing by Ries & Trout.
Here’s an uncomfortable truth many founders discover too late: you’ve built something brilliant, gained traction, assembled a talented team – but when it comes to raising your next round, finding the right investors feels like searching in the dark. Meanwhile, investors complain they can’t discover quality deal flow outside their usual networks.
Raising the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) often sparks debates about job losses and automation replacing humans, and this can be the case in hospitality, but in my view, in an industry built on personal connection, a different story is unfolding. In hospitality, AI isn’t replacing people – it’s empowering them. The next frontier of automation is human-centred, using technology to amplify empathy, not erase it. I believe everyone in hospitality needs AI.
Innovate UK has launched the Agentic AI Pioneers Prize. This national competition aims to unlock the transformative potential of agentic AI across the UK’s most dynamic sectors, including advanced manufacturing, health and life sciences, and the creative industries.
Government leaders across the globe have adopted different negotiation tactics to the sweeping trade tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, with varying degrees of success. The approach taken by the UK Government to secure a deal early on appears to be supported by UK Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs).
Humanoid has announced a strategic partnership with QSS AI & Robotics, Saudi Arabia’s robotics and AI company pioneering the localisation of advanced technologies under Vision 2030.
The Accounting & Business Show Asia 2025 will take place on October 22-23, 2025 at the Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore, bringing together more than 4,000 accountants, finance leaders, and business decision-makers from across Asia.
