A sustainability platform has helped parents divert £1 million worth of items away from landfill across the UK. The YoungPlanet app - a platform used by families across the UK to give and receive second-hand parenting and children’s items for free - has enabled over 30,000 children’s items and toys worth over £1m to find new homes, rather than be chucked away. 

The Saudi Arabian market is anticipated to grow due to rising demands for quicker and simpler cloud service implementation. The 20th edition of the World Cloud Show will highlight what the Kingdom has in store for investors, IT professionals, and tech enthusiasts in upholding this development.

Vestico, the social fit and personalisation platform for fashion and beauty, has secured a £250,000 investment from early-stage focused venture capital firm Jenson Funding Partners to further develop its technology and define the next generation of eCommerce.

As more and more brands are looking for compliant ways to create personalised experiences for their customers, and with rules about third-party cookies changing regularly, first-party data insights are becoming more important than ever.

Silicon Valley has been the jewel in the crown of the global technology ecosystem for decades, pioneering innovation and creating some of the world’s most successful companies. Yet, in recent years, we’ve seen a small number of tech hubs join Silicon Valley at the top table. With Europe’s largest tech economy – the UK has firmly cemented itself as a leading place to set up and grow an international tech company.

Average testosterone levels have been declining for decades, yet men suffering from testosterone deficiency often don’t receive the support and treatment that they need to get back to full health and reduce their risk of early death.

With COP27 in full swing, Berlin startup ecolytiq has taken a bold step to partner with dedicated and ambitious financial institutions by offering its entire product suite for free for the first three years to those who commit to working with them by the end of COP27.

Brite Payments today announced further expansion to offer full product coverage across the Baltic region, following the successful launch of its instant pay-ins solution in Estonia earlier this year.

Something and Nothing, a London-based premium drinks company, has raised a total of £2.5M in an investment round that included ACF Investors and Rianta capital. 

UK bosses are considering asking workers to stay at home to save on office energy bills this winter, according to a new survey of 1,000 senior leaders at UK companies. According to the findings, 64% of senior leaders are considering reversing their rhetoric around encouraging employees back into the office and 74% of business owners feel the same, as the cost of living begins to bite for companies This is according to research from freelance platform Fiverr. 

Ctrl Alt, the app that enables investments in alternative assets with as little as £10, will launch on the 17th of November, it was announced today. Founded by an experienced team of financial services and technology experts, Ctrl Alt is set to change the alternative investment universe by providing its users access to assets that have so far been available to only the wealthiest in society. 

UK business confidence fell by -10% to its lowest level in at least 13 years in October, but was stronger than European peers, according to the latest Accenture / S&P Global UK Business Outlook.

Profyle Card was started in 2020 by co-founders Chris Tingley and Jonathan Murphy with their personal goal of developing a product that would help replace and reduce wasteful single-use paper business cards with a more reliable, reusable and environmentally friendly solution.

As part of the EU's space policy, the European Union is developing two major space programmes: the Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and the Copernicus Earth observation system

Scrolling through LinkedIn you’d be forgiven for believing a rose-tinted view of startup leadership as a continually exciting, dynamic lifestyle. Whilst that can be the reality, there are also plenty of times when things are anything but - when leaders find themselves feeling isolated and under pressure to keep building the business and making the right decisions.

Nourish Community Foodbank is appealing to schools, individuals, businesses, places of worship and groups this Christmas to support those who are in crisis in our community.

An employment lawyer has warned football fans they could be sacked if they call in sick to watch the World Cup. 

Air pollution is the most-pressing environmental health crisis of our time with approximately nine in 10 people around the world breathing unclean air. Helping to spotlight this existential threat, cleantech startup Airly is today announcing a $5.5M series A funding round as it targets cleaning the air by understanding the exact sources based on sensor data and comprehensive actionable insights. 

Mathematicians once proclaimed that there are over 177,000 distinct ways to tie a knot in a necktie. Users of customer relationship management (CRM) software may also feel like they’re forever learning something new – there’s always a new trick or updated module to get to grips with.

Weglot, a website translation software, announced they will be donating 50% of all sales made on Black Friday and Cyber Monday to a number of charities.