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Manchester IT security company NCC appoints European MD

IT security firm NCC Group has appointed Inge Bryan as managing director for its continental Europea...

Octopus Energy swoops for Manchester software firm 

Octopus Energy has moved to acquire Manchester software company Upside Energy.  Upside is a cl...

Skill swapping platform eSwapp backed by angel investor

London based start-up eSwapp, a skills platform for colleagues, has recently raised £350,000 from a...

FinTech lender to gaming sector raises £1.5m to expand team

London-based start-up  Sugar, a platform for providing financing to gaming studios, announced that ...

London HealthTech Doctor Care Anywhere announces Australian IPO

London-based digital health services firm Doctor Care Anywhere has lodged a prospectus with the Aust...

£1.35m raised by FinTech ‘making current accounts obsolete’

UK and France-based FinTech Automata has raised €1.5m in private investments as part of its ongoin...

Gousto becomes unicorn following £25m funding

UK-based recipe box provider Gousto has achieved tech unicorn status following its latest fu...

Ocado’s £223m double acquisition bolsters robotics clout

British online supermarket and tech group Ocado has acquired two robotics firms for a total of $287m...

BioTech firm Eagle Genomics raises £7m for AI microbiome platform

BioTech firm Eagle Genomics has closed $9m (£6.97m) in new scale-up funding which it hopes to use i...

Marriott fined £18.4m after malware cyberattack affecting millions

The ICO has fined Marriott International £18.4m for failing to keep millions of customers’ perso...

Cambridge Spark welcomes 100 apprentices to close high-tech skills gap

Cambridge Spark, a provider of data science and AI apprenticeships, reports it has inducted m...

UK e-scooter boom continues in two new cities creating 60 jobs

E-scooters are now available to hire in Bath and Bristol as part of a new trial led by the West of E...