The U.K. government is throwing a big swathe of money at the east end of London — announcing a £50 million plan for regeneration of the Silicon Roundabout area. The funding will go towards establishing a new “civic space” — billed as Europe’s largest — that will be dedicated to start-ups and entrepreneurs in the area, with co-working spaces, classrooms and workshops. → Read More
Naysayers of ‘Silicon Roundabout’ (or Tech City, to use its UK Government-sanctioned name) can certainly point to some of the giddy PR surrounding the area as evidence of hype. But when you join up the dots, there’s a definite sense that we’re beginning to see signs of real growth for this tech cluster in the east end of London.
And so it is that news comes today of what looks like another… → Read More
Attention young engineers and budding product geniuses! If you’re thinking about moving jobs, or if you’d like to work for one of the UK’s hawt startups, mark out May 26/27 in your calendars for the third edition of the Silicon Milkroundabout.
Nature abhors a vacuum and so it goes that because there are actually very few hiring events for startups in London, past Milkroundabouts have been… → Read More
RjDj’s Michael Breidenbruecker, also a Founder last.fm, has certainly opened up the avenues for sound apps on mobile platforms. The startup’s apps have become platforms for musicians, but are gradually evolving into augmented reality mobile apps.
Most recently the company partnered with screenwriter Christopher Nolan on Inception: The App, which reached 4 million downloads. The amount of… → Read More
Back in January GoSquared arrived on the scene to attempt an assault onChartbeat’s realtime analytics territory.
While Chartbeat has raised an impressive $3 million Series A financing with a glittering array of backers including Betaworks and Ron Conway, GoSquared has had a more modest seed funding round from Passion Capital.
Founders James Gill, James Taylor and Geoff Wagstaff range between 19… → Read More
[UK] As the saying goes, there are no original ideas – only original people. It’s this concept that drives the latest music-related startup to come out of London’s ‘Silicon Roundabout‘, that concentration of tech startups around the Old Street area.
WhoSampled.com has been in public beta for a year, and officially launches today. Founded by Nadav Poraz, the community-driven site focuses on… → Read More
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