Pressure is mounting on large technology vendors with offices in the UK to extend a helping hand to start-ups and small businesses that are struggling to navigate the current economic landscape. With limited resources, entrepreneurs need help finding new talent,...

Despite all the government's rhetoric about supporting start-ups and small businesses with tax breaks and funding schemes, there appears to have been precious little progress when it comes to public sector procurement. If SMEs are the lifeblood of the economy...

The biggest barrier to the growth of the UK's technology sector is the City, according to Saul Klein, serial investor and partner at Index Ventures, because fund managers at big corporates simply do not understand the internet economy.Speaking at the...

In the face of continued opposition, the Home Office appears to be pressing ahead with it’s controversial Communications Data Bill, widely known as the “snooping charter,” which aims to give security services new powers to monitor internet activity.The second draft...

The Tech City project has been met with a mixture of pride and disdain from the IT industry. Some welcome the government's acknowledgement of the technology sector's role in Britain's economic recovery, while others dismiss the London-centric view as biased...

The news this week that a 17-year-old British school boy has sold his app company to the Internet giant Yahoo for an estimated $30 million (£20m) should come as a massive wake-up call for the IT industry. Nick D'Aloisio...

Yesterday's budget was met with general disappointment from the IT industry, which bemoaned the fact that technology did not feature more prominently in the Chancellor's speech. But a closer look at the full budget report reveals a number of measures...

The government gets a lot of stick for jumping on the bandwagon when it comes to Tech City, and there's no doubt that it has taken a fair bit of credit for the growth of a digital cluster that was...

Ever since November 2010, when Prime Minister David Cameron announced the government's ambition to create a world-leading technology hub in London's East End, the spotlight has been firmly focused on Silicon Roundabout.But London is not the be-all and end-all of...

For many people, the phrase Big Data has become almost synonymous with Apache Hadoop - the open source framework originally developed by Yahoo. But as organisations become increasingly familiar with the nuances of Big Data, it is starting to...