FEMALE entrepreneurs running growing businesses have shared the secrets behind their success in a special report to mark International Women’s Day. The female founders also outlined the challenges they face in growing their businesses and explained how they’ve overcome them.

London bespoke office space provider, WorkPad, plans to double the size of its business in the next two months and launch new service lines for landlords and occupiers, as the London office market continues to heat up following the pandemic.

International Women’s Day is designed to pay homage to the progress that has been made in the battle for gender equality, but it also highlights the existing challenges that many women still face today. This year, as well as highlighting the everyday prejudices that women face, focus is also being placed on the growing need for sustainable practices within business. Gender equality is essential, and so too is the need to protect our future environment. And from an enterprise perspective, work needs to be done to improve in both areas.

As a small business owner, you undoubtedly understand the importance of collecting payments from your customers on time. Debtors are the bane of any business owner's existence. They can hold up payments causing cash-flow problems, which can be a headache to most business owners. However, with a bit of organisation and planning, you can manage your debtors more effectively and minimise the negative impact on your business. This blog post will discuss six ways to do just that.

Despite women tech giants including Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki being championed in the press, women are still facing barriers when it comes to entering and succeeding in the world of technology, new research suggests.

New research from the find-a-tradesperson platform, Rated People has revealed the biggest challenges faced by women who work in the trades industry, inclusive of all who identify as women, as well as the trades which have the lowest representation of women and the biggest gender pay gaps. 

On this, International Women’s Day (Tuesday 8 March), Peppy, the digital health platform, reports there has been a significant change in employers’ attitudes to offering workplace menopause support:

The first AllBright NFT mint coincides with a launch featuring AllBright members including Laura Whitmore and Nimco Ali to open up NFT investment opportunities for women.

My colleagues at the Giants asked to hear my thoughts about being a 'woman in tech' for International Women’s Day (IWD). 

Your health and wellbeing is one of, if not the most important thing in your life. There are so many different aspects to look after when it comes to your health and wellbeing, so why hasn’t the process of doing been made easier?

In our last Women in Tech issue back in September, the founder focus feature saw us head to the land of the midnight sun, Norway, to speak to Anne Lise Waal, CTO and COO of Attensi, provider of gamified training solutions, about the diverse team she has built, and how women in CTO positions can influence the ethos of a tech business.

Smart Retail Tech Expo 2022 brought together an unrivalled collection of exhibitors, speakers, judges, partners and visitors eager to get inspired from and share to the very best in the retail sphere.

Wednesday 9th March sees the launch of the latest iteration of the UK Government G-Cloud.

An app designed to help consumers make informed choices about the environmental impact of their weekly food shop has recently celebrated its launch.

Metasky, a platform aimed at the intersection of Web3 and the creator economy, has raised $1.8m in a pre-seed token sale round led by Sequoia Capital India and Woodstock Fund. Metasky positions itself as a bridge to Web3 - working with influencers, creators, and brands closely to form a Web3 strategy for their followers with the help of its user-friendly tools for buying, storing, and using NFTs.

The G-Cloud 13 is a framework of approved tech suppliers which can be utilised for government purposes and therefore spending.

Over 100 days since the COP26 conference took place in Glasgow, data by Tech Nation shows the impact this global flagship event had on driving growth in climate technology and urges for this momentum to continue.

Schneider Electric’s seminar at Sustainability LIVE invited the audience to join its journey to net zero. Ranked as the ‘world’s most sustainable company’ in 2021 by Corporate Knights Global with an overall score of 83.2%, its Energy & Sustainability Director, Barry Hurst, offered advice on how to make your business greener.

Just three months after its pre-seed round, an impressive group of Europe’s leading food tech entrepreneurs, startup founders and investors have joined Berlin food tech company, Perfeggt.

With a serious amount of hype, and investment from some of the biggest names in tech, everything is pointing towards the radical change on the horizon that is the metaverse. But what is the metaverse, and what does it mean for retail?