Zoom has announced the introduction of Notes, a new workspace to create and collaborate before, during, and after meetings. Notes allows users to create and share content within a Zoom Meeting and collaborate with others on the call for real-time inputs—eliminating the distraction of jumping between Zoom and third-party documents and tools.

Generative AI has overtaken cloud as a global enterprise IT priority according to new research from IT analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group.

In Octopus Ventures’ latest report, the University of Dundee has been named as the top university for spin-out success. This ranking was determined by factors such as patents, spinouts created and recent portfolio success, which for Dundee, included the £2.2 billion IPO of Exscientia on the US NASDAQ, one of the largest ever UK university exits.

New research from Xero, the global small business platform, has revealed that UK small business owners are concerned that AI development is outpacing regulation and a third (32%) want more training and resources to support AI adoption, as generative AI tools permeate various industries and the workforce.

ChartMogul, the Subscription Analytics Platform for growing Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses, reveals that top-tier SaaS startups reach $1 million Annual Run Rate (ARR) almost two years faster than the median SaaS enterprise.

Swedish startup Adsorbi AB has secured €360,000 in seed funding from Metsä Spring, Chalmers Ventures, and Jovitech Invest for its cellulose-based air purification material that can be used in air filters and odour removal products.

Paige, an AI startup, has announced the beta launch of its AI Assistant for website editing. This is a tool designed to change the approach to the web development process.

The agenda for DTX + UCX Europe has been announced as experts from the biggest brands gather at the London ExCeL to share their roadmap for digital transformation in the AI era.

NexGen Cloud, the sustainable Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, has launched Hyperstack, an NVIDIA GPU-accelerated cloud platform that enables direct-to-compute, GPU-accelerated cloud access for the European market.

Every year over 340 million workers suffer a workplace injury: slips and falls, strains and sprains, vehicle collisions and crashes. Voxel, an AI startup using computer vision to transform safety and operations in the workplace, has announced a $12 million strategic funding round to improve workplace safety and save lives.

Sustainability management and ESG reporting platform FuturePlus has been appointed by multi award-winning UK hotel and spa company, Barons Eden Group, to help it track, measure and improve its sustainability performance.

Tech scaleup support programme, Exchange has welcomed a bank of new additions to its mentor and advisory network including three successful alumni entrepreneurs, as it onboards its sixth cohort of early-stage businesses.

Canva, the all-in-one visual communication platform celebrates the 10-year anniversary of Co-Founders Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams launching Canva with the ambitious mission to empower the world to design.  

Lithuania needs to harness “the enormous power” of international investment to boost its economic opportunities in an increasingly globalised world, says serial global investor Nigel Green.

The business experts at Forbes Advisor have conducted an analysis of the most recent UK business demography statistics report from the Office for National Statistics.

Navian, the 2023 Nordic PropTech Awards winner, has announced a strategic partnership with Address, an impact-focused Norwegian real estate company revolutionising homeownership access through their unique Rent-to-Own programme.

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and InspiredMinds flagship product World Summit AI (WSAI), the world’s leading AI event, are announcing a new partnership to co-locate CES Unveiled Amsterdam at global tech summit - World Summit AI this October. CES Unveiled Amsterdam will take place at the Taets Art & Event Park on October 12, 2023, the second day of the WSAI Summit, in partnership with the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. Amsterdam is a top global hub for technology innovation and this new partnership will serve as one of Europe’s most influential tech events.

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and France Digitale, the leading startup association in Europe, announced a partnership to co-host the CES 2024 Tech Trends - formerly CES Unveiled Paris -  a global kickoff event for CES 2024. The CES 2024 Tech Trends will be held on September 20, 2023, at the Musee des Arts Forains in Paris. It will take place during France Digitale’s FDDay 2023, a key startup and innovation event that convenes entrepreneurs and investors from across Europe to propel the tech industry forward. Owned and produced by CTA, CES 2024 returns to Las Vegas January 9-12, 2024.

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that L’Oréal CEO Nicolas Hieronimus will deliver the first-ever keynote from a beauty company at CES 2024. A nine-time CES Innovation Award honoree, L'Oréal's keynote will demonstrate how the company’s ongoing technology transformation ensures that it remains prepared for a future of its business that is at once physical, digital, and virtual.

A new survey has revealed that Michelle Obama is the UK public’s dream boss.

Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show, regarded as the place where money does business, is launching Money20/20 Asia set to take place April 23-25 of 2024 in Bangkok at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center.

Advanced Air Mobility Expo 2023 is making its debut under the new management of multi-award winning Fortem International.

There has been a 10% increase in the number of girls taking GCSE computing, rising for the second year in a row, which follows a number of consecutive years of uptake declining as they outperform their male peers at all grade levels.

Post-pandemic, we had the Great Resignation – the movement where hundreds of thousands of people changed or left their jobs.

PROSPECT 100, a UK-based startup, has successfully raised $750,000 to build the go-to platform for co-creation; a digital space which allows brands to connect and collaborate with creative talent around the world.

A recent UK SME survey found that 29% of those surveyed said the ongoing shortage of skilled workers poses a high or very high risk for their business – so much so that their digital modernisation ambitions have stalled, due to a lack of job-ready digital talent.

The UK economy is expected to shrink between July and September which could tip the nation into a recession, according to the S&P Global/CIPS UK Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) report which has seen interest rates rise and household spending decrease.

Glasgow event in November helps businesses to navigate AI and emerging tech. Global experts including DowJones emerging technology director and a top New York based virtual AI fashion expert will join Scottish businesses at Scotland’s annual CAN DO Innovation Summit, on 7th November.

As the lines between reality and the metaverse continue to blur, UK and Europe flexible workspace operator Clockwise announce their plans to launch the first office space in the metaverse, the Clockwise Campus, catapulting the office industry into the new age.

Increasing competition and the viral popularity of ChatGPT is spurring businesses to launch AI apps but they face time and budget constraints in rolling these out. Helping businesses solve this bottleneck, Portkey.ai has announced a $3 million seed funding round empowering engineering teams to build and launch generative AI apps faster.  

Occupop, a user-friendly recruitment software tailored for SMBs, has introduced an innovative AI prompt library, known as the ‘ChatGPT Prompt Library for Recruitment’.

EMO Hannover 2023 from September 18 to 23 will once again feature a large Startup Area on Stand E34 in Hall 9, presented jointly by the EMO organiser VDW (German Machine Tool Builders' Association) and the VDMA Startup Machine.

London’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasing their tech budgets, allocating over half of their annual revenue to technology investments, according to a report by Barclays.

Venture capital fundraising is experiencing a troubling downturn, hitting a nine-year low, as revealed by the State of European Tech report (2022). Over 80% of respondents who took part in the study believe that raising venture capital has become substantially more challenging than it was just a year ago - the most significant change in sentiment recorded in the past half-decade.

On 28th August, Scottish fintech Know-it, led by CEO and Founder Lynne Darcey Quigley, will embark on the 2023 UK Fintech Trade Mission to Australia’s Intersekt Festival.  

A new report from Rimm Sustainability reveals an impressive level of commitment to sustainability practices amongst UK SMEs.

The UK Government has announced it will be spending £100 million to accelerate its positioning within the global race to produce computer chips that will be used to power artificial intelligence (AI).

A recent YouGov survey revealed that over a third of UK workers that can work remotely would take a workcation in the next twelve months.

The UK tech sector has seen the number of female workers dip between the first and second quarters of 2023, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

Our lifestyles underwent something of an overhaul (to put it mildly) during the pandemic – with the beauty industry witnessing a seismic shift in priorities.

Unmind, provider of global workplace wellbeing solutions, announces C-suite hires to guide the acceleration and growth of Unmind’s journey to a £100 million operation.

Karta, an award-winning metaverse studio pioneering the world of in-game experiential marketing, has launched its own studio dedicated to creating bespoke in-game experiences in Fortnite. Karta’s Fortnite studio has been set up to partner with rights holders and popular IP owners from music, entertainment and sports talent to create innovative takes on Fortnite experiences within the platform - opening up new revenue streams for rights holders.

British social networking app WOLF has released WOLF Virtual Reality (VR) – the brand’s first virtual reality experience.

Silico, the Business Process Simulation platform has announced a strategic partnership with Marcadus, a business improvement management consultancy and Celonis Gold Partner. This collaboration aims to extend both companies’ process improvement offerings by combining Silico's Process Simulation Platform with Marcadus' data-driven Process Mining services.

Wales Tech Week has unveiled BT as the partner for the summit’s Connectivity Zone, reaffirming its commitment to advancing digital transformation and innovation within Wales's technology industry.

Electric Sheep, an AI tech startup in visual effects (VFX), has announce the close of an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round of half a million dollars. The round was filled by AI focused VCs, led by Dasein Capital (US), and backed by Spatial Capital (US) and Look AI Ventures (Czech Republic).

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has announced that it has invested in Advanced Ionics, a high efficiency, low-temperature water vapour electrolysis technology startup company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The world is rapidly galloping into the digital age. While industries across the board are eagerly embracing technology, there's one sector that's often overlooked yet wields an incredible impact on society – non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Transparency about level of commissions, a commission cap, and an end to cold calls, are some steps that could be taken to bring the spiralling energy broker market under control, a new report by Octopus Energy for Business reveals. 

The study, conducted by InvestinGoal.com, analysed the consistency, reliability, and average returns of all sectors that the companies within the S&P 500 index are divided into to identify the most lucrative investment opportunities.

UK FinTech Growth Partners will launch the FinTech Growth Fund, the first investment fund of its kind focused on supporting growth stage fintechs as they scale.

Fiverr, the company reshaping global collaboration, has unveiled the next phase of its partnership with England and Arsenal football star Bukayo Saka, which centres around the launch of Ideatorr, a brand-new incubator programme.

Integrated drug formulation and clinical trials company, BDD has secured a further round of investment for £2 million to aid the company’s expansion in response to growing demand for both its patented drug delivery technology and specialist clinical trial services.

Rodez Aveyron Football (Rodez AF) has entered into a strategic collaboration with Wiremind to upgrade its ticketing management and operations. This partnership heralds a new era for the club's ticketing system, as they integrate the all-encompassing ticketing management platform, EVENTORI, into their existing system.

Brite Payments has announced that it has expanded its product coverage with the launch of open banking-powered instant payments and payouts in Denmark.

They say it’s not what you know, but who you know – though some of Britain’s youngest and most successful entrepreneurs are likely to dispute that fact, building business empires on grit, determination, and meticulous planning.

Small Business Saturday has revealed the twenty-one towns and cities it will visit on its next national roadshow, as the campaign gears up to highlight the nation’s most loved independents and calls on local business owners to get involved.

Advanced Ionics, the developer of a new category of hydrogen electrolysers useful for expanding green hydrogen production, closed a $12.5 million Series A financing led by bp ventures, with additional investors including Clean Energy Ventures, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and GVP Climate. 

Business software companies bucked a trend in the overall technology economy and, despite a wider downturn, had a 7.4% increase in investment to over $40 billion in 2022. Meanwhile, the European technology sector as a whole saw a drop of nearly 19% in the same period.

Artificial intelligence training is as important for students as maths and English according to Multiverse, the training company set up by Tony Blair’s son.

UNTIL, home to London’s health and wellness professionals, has announced Steven Bartlett as the company’s new Marketing Co-Founder following his latest investment into the sector, worth £3.5 trillion globally.

AI could have a greater impact on the UK than the Industrial Revolution and play a key role in accelerating government decisions, according to Deputy PM Oliver Dowden. Reports from earlier this year found that around the world, as many as 300 million jobs could be impacted, generating new ones or wholly automating them.

Robin AI, the legal AI startup, has introduced The Legal Dictionary, a free tool available to anyone who needs access to high quality, common legal clauses for their commercial agreements. The Legal Dictionary was generated using a large language model (LLM), that has been fine-tuned with proprietary contract data, and then verified by Robin AI’s in-house team of legal experts.

In the fast-evolving realm of LFP battery cell production, Europe stands at the forefront of innovation, catching the attention of savvy venture capitalists and private equity investors attuned to global dynamics. Within the continent lies a world-class research ecosystem, spanning diverse deep tech and engineering faculties focused on renewable energy and battery technologies.

A study of 500 businesses which sell on the web found they are being hit by fees of approximately 3% from traditional payment processing firms for each transaction.

This week, Zoom Video Communications has opened its new London Engagement Hub to spearhead the shift from traditional office spaces to experiential working hubs, supported by its industry-leading technology. With the demand for hybrid and remote capabilities giving rise to unconventional ways of operating, Zoom has designed its new office to support the changing nature of the employee experience, marking a new era of modern work.

The UK economy has avoided stagnation with 0.2% growth in Q2, showing a modest rebound between April and July, which includes a 0.5% growth in the month of June alone, significantly outperforming forecasts, the Office for National Statistics reports.

Quinas Technology, the spinout from Lancaster University formed to commercialise ULTRARAM memory, has been named as Best of Show in the Most Innovative Flash Memory Startup category at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, CA, the world's largest independent storage and memory conference.

Kuberno, the global legal entity management SaaS provider for corporate secretariat, legal teams, and governance professionals, has announced the appointment of Naz Sarkar as Chair and Independent Non-Executive Director.

Small business support platform and membership organisation Enterprise Nation has today/August 10, launched its own annual fund in partnership with TikTok to offer financial assistance and mentoring to the brave businesses that are relentlessly driven by their values.

Momentum, the pioneering business event that bridges the gap between business needs and mindset support, is thrilled to announce the highly anticipated return of "Momentum - A Night At The Museum." Building upon the resounding success of their inaugural event in January, Momentum is set to deliver an even more extraordinary experience for entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals seeking inspiration, growth, and valuable connections.

Stocks of WeWork, the once widely acclaimed office space-sharing company, has experienced a sharp decline after it raised “substantial doubt” about its future.

ShapesXR, a VR design and collaboration platform, has secured a $8.6 million Seed Round led by Supernode Global. Triptyq VC,  Boost VC, Hartmann Capital, and Geek Ventures also participated in the round.

Elite Business, the business publication dedicated to inspiring Britain's SMEs, continues its nationwide tour broadcasting live for free at the UK's best expos.

Plastics are super-versatile and an essential part of our everyday lives, yet even today they often end up being incinerated. A more sustainable plastics economy is needed. Global plastics specialist igus is pursuing this goal with its “chainge" recycling platform, which recycles used energy chains. Now igus has invested in the startup company cirplus to pursue the common vision of closing the plastics loop and initiating a revolution in the trade of technical and standard thermoplastic recyclate or recycled plastic stock.

The architecture, engineering and construction industry has undergone significant changes in recent years yet one major challenge they face is the slow and costly manufacture of large components as part of their installations. Enabling the industry to move faster and efficiently, SAEKI has today launched from stealth with a $2.3 million seed funding round to create fully automated plants with industrial robots using 3D technology to create anything from wings for aircraft to construction site installations.

Cherish PR, a Wilful Group company and one of the UK’s agencies for tech and innovation has announced the launch of its Communications Accelerator Programme to celebrate its 20th anniversary, which is now open for applications from scaleups from all over the globe until 31st October 2023. 

Frankfurt listed, German Fintech player, The NAGA Group A.G., operator of the All-in-One Financial Super App, has announced a partnership with Rezolve AI Limited.

Economic experts have warned of 5 years of lose economic growth and a 60% change of a recession due to being unprepared for geo-political tensions and socio-economic circumstances, according to the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR).

HiBob, the company behind Bob, the HR platform transforming how organisations operate in the modern world of work, today announces it has been named to the Forbes 2023 Cloud 100. The list is the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures.

Blueshift Memory, designer of a novel proprietary high-speed memory architecture, has announced the successful completion of a 13-month R&D project to demonstrate the performance of its Cambridge Architecture, which was funded by an Innovate UK Smart grant.

As China grapples with a serious deflation threat, investors worldwide must prepare for the fallout and adjust their strategies accordingly, warns the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory, asset management and fintech organisations.

Cytomos, an Edinburgh-based life science company that has developed a proprietary new approach to analysing cells, has secured £4 million to scale up market-testing of its technology platform Cytomos Dielectric Spectroscopy (CDS).

As 2023's advancements in technology pose more questions than answers, the industry's most insightful minds come together at Digital Transformation EXPO Europe (DTX) - the home of digital transformation - and UC EXPO (UCX) - the home of customer and workplace tech.

Onfido, a global player in automated digital identity verification, has announced that they have partnered with 0xKYC, an innovative startup bringing zero-knowledge proof identity solutions to Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs).

Hiring intentions and business confidence saw declines across both the services and manufacturing sectors in July with economic growth set to slow, according to the latest Business Trends report from accountancy and business advisory firm, BDO.

Fresh off the opening of Huckletree Oxford Circus (which is already at 80% occupancy), the innovator in curated coworking spaces, Huckletree, has announced it is moving to two of London’s most enviable postcodes: Liverpool Street and Kensington as part of expansion plans, taking their total footprint to over 250,000 sq ft in the UK and Ireland.

Climate-tech company Pledge is rolling out its carbon emissions measurement, reporting, and offsetting solutions for Canadian freight forwarder, Synergie Canada.

"It is becoming more difficult to find employees, especially for physically demanding and at the same time monotonous tasks. The turnover of skilled workers is particularly high in these types of tasks," says Gerhard Müller, responsible for the regions Germany, Austria and Switzerland within KUKA's robotics division.

Twilio, the customer engagement platform that drives real-time, personalised experiences for today’s leading brands, has announced it will enable companies to create personalised, customer-aware experiences powered by OpenAI.

Almost half a million new startups have already been launched and registered with Companies House, new figures show.

London North Eastern Railway (LNER) has invited startups from across the UK to showcase their cutting-edge technologies aimed at making rail travel even better, offering the opportunity to share their tech solutions to challenges facing the industry.

Small Business Britain’s popular ‘Small and Mighty Enterprise Programme’ is being expanded to help 1,000 more small businesses across the UK as applications open for its next round.

Around two-thirds (67%) of tech workers in the UK believe women are the answer to bridging the tech talent gap, yet only 40% stated their company has a plan to improve the gender split in their IT teams, according to research.

Almost half a million new startups have already been launched and registered with Companies House, new figures show. 

Silicon Catalyst has announced the winners of the just-concluded ‘Silicon Startups Contest’ in partnership with Arm. The top winner was Equal1 from Ireland, and the two runners-up finalists were SpiNNcloud from Germany and weeteq from Scotland.

Meta’s launch of Threads(.com) has seen traffic to a Slack competitor, also named Threads(.net), explode from 88,011 monthly visits to over 10 million in two weeks, according to analysis of SimilarWeb data.

bp ventures has made a £4 million investment in Dynamon, a UK-based software company that specialises in developing advanced data analytics and simulation tools for commercial transport and logistics companies. The funding forms part of Dynamon’s Series A round, being raised to fully commercialise and scale up its platform and expand its operations in Europe and into North America.

Singapore witnessed a successful convergence of global tech leaders, cutting-edge innovation and insightful deliberations on the latest trends that dominate the emerging technology space. Day 1 of the World AI Show, World Blockchain Summit and World CX Summit (#TresconABC) concluded with resounding success at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, whetting the appetite of attendees for an even more exciting Day 2.