AstroLabs celebrates 10 years of ecosystem building in MENA amidst a full house of its community members, partners, and the UAE’s top disruptors at the opening night of Step 2023. This exclusive event gathered panels and fireside chats with tech industry champions, including Mudassir Sheikha, Co-Founder and CEO of Careem, along with Muhammed Mekki and Louis Lebbos, founding partners of AstroLabs. 

A mental health audit can help a company better understand parts of its business that could remain hidden from view or present as future problems. The mental health requirements of employees continue to shift, so evaluating where the gaps exist now in terms of mental health training, diagnosis and treatment for conditions, and the use of data to measure the success of the workplace, can help leaders to prepare and make informed decisions about their workforce’s requirements.

With only a few days until The Workspace Design Show returns to London’s Business Design Centre, on 27-28 February 2023, here is a taste of what to expect. The show brings together striking features, a thought-provoking programme of talks featuring a whole host of speakers, from developers to architects and their blue-chip clients, along with accomplished exhibitors showcasing the latest workplace interiors innovations. All of this incredible content aligns perfectly with the show’s theme, Destination Workplace: Places Where People Want To Be. 

Step Conference 2023, the leading technology festival for emerging markets, kicks off its 11th edition today. It is presented by Dubai Internet City, a member of TECOM Group PJSC, and powered by Tap Payments.

UK care-tech startup Milbotix Ltd announces an investment round to complete the development of SmartSocks that track signs of stress and agitation in people with neurocognitive diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

From hundreds of entries across every sectors, Altnets has been ranked 35th overall in the Elite Business 100 (EB100). The Brighton-based telecoms supplier will celebrate at an awards evening on March 17th in London and be included in the EB100 digital guide and online directory, with a viewership of over half a million people.

Technology industry leaders have been invited to Parliament for a special debate on the UK’s digital skills crisis.

Women founded more than 150,000 new companies last year despite a more challenging economic environment. The resilience of female entrepreneurs is underlined by data which shows that female founders started more firms in 2022 than ever before. The figures are published today in the Rose Review Progress Report 2023, which sets fresh goals to provide record levels of support for female entrepreneurs and drive up the numbers of female angel investors.

Almost a third of university courses still combine face-to-face teaching with online learning, data gathered by the BBC suggests.

The pandemic ushered in a new shift to video conferencing services, with Zoom emerging as the winner of this segment despite competing against established brands

The team behind www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk – the largest independently-owned small business organisation in the UK with over 350,000 members – have conducted a snap poll to 762 business owners and senior management of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to gauge their reaction to the latest episode of Dragons’ Den.

As the UK moves towards its net zero goals, it faces a myriad of skill shortages across all industries and sectors, as the government puts pressure on businesses to decarbonise for the future.

Four in five (80%) employers have increased their health and wellbeing support or employee benefits to adapt to the changing circumstances of their staff, according to new research conducted during January 2023 for GRiD, the industry body for the group risk protection sector.

Employers should demonstrate their commitment to cultivating a diverse workforce by offering inclusive employee benefits, according to digital health app, Peppy. 

Business leaders are being held back from meeting growth ambitions due to negative connotations surrounding debt, according to research from Growth Lending.

Towergate Health & Protection releases the details of research into the recruitment plans of over 500 companies from across the UK. The findings reveal that one third (33%) of employers have increased their employee headcount over the last 12 months, and 42% are looking to increase employee numbers further over the next 12 months.

Startups and SME’s are being told to switch to VoIP telecoms systems to support the growing demand for flexible working patterns or risk losing key staff.

Reskube the British startup behind its eponymous remote-working resilience solution, has announced the launch of a new round of crowdfunding.

ShipStation, a cloud-based e-commerce shipping solution, today announces that UPS is live on its carrier services platform in the UK.

As Brits tackle the rising cost of living, new data released from Sky Connect - Sky’s B2B telecoms business - reveals that the majority (87%) of freelancers and remote workers are concerned about the impact working from home is having on their energy bills.