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7digital’s Innovation Time results announced along with launch of Technical Academy
London-based content and technology 7digital is showing some interesting results from its developer program ‘Innovation Time’.
Launched in the UK in 2004, 7digital’s download store and mobile applications give consumers access to over 17 milli...
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Collaboration software maker Huddle raises $24m from Jafco, WebEx founder and others
Cloud-based collaboration and task management software company Huddle has raised $24 million in Series C financing on the heels of setting up an office in New York, and plans to use the proceeds to triple its team size in the next 12 months.
The round was...
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A new app promises to let anyone use social media sentiment to guide them in the stock market
Derwent Capital Markets raised eyebrows when it launched a hedge fund that used analysis of Twitter to predict movements in the stock market. Now the London-based firm is set to open up its technology for anyone to use via what it’s calling the R...
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Regulator spanks Amazon over Prime One-Day delivery guarantee
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld complaints against Amazon EU about the retail giant’s guarantee to Prime customers to receive One-Day delivery on orders.
The problem is that Amazon says that its Prime customers can ha...
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Ignite100 the £1m accelerator is on the hunt for a new batch of startups
Ignite100, Europe’s first £1m ($1.6m) digital startup accelerator is calling out for a new set of startup teams to participate in its second program.
The North Eastern accelerator started work about a year ago when it invested £100k each in eight te...
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Google’s Eric Schmidt: “Music may be the food of love but engineers make the instruments”
As part of a wide ranging tour, Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt gave a talk at the Science museum in London. Dressed in a smart grey suit and frankly looking pretty unruffled by the heat in the city that evening, Schmidt laid out a few vis...
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Bros: Different Culture, Same Bro



They might have a different word for it in some places, but douchebaggery is international.

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Facebook’s “Open Graph Challenge” will give developers 24 hours to hack something awesome
Facebook has a new road show now that it’s a public company, and it wants to find the best Open Graph hackers there are in the UK. During the Over the Air conference in Bletchley Park, the company will be holding an “Open Graph Challenge.R...
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Want to know when your items on Pinterest go on sale? Check out Lyst’s alerts
In our most recent iPad Magazine, we traveled the world over to bring you the best stories and trends in the digital fashion world. In London, we met with 5 hot startups who are reshaping the scene. One of them was Lyst, a social commerce platform that de...
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Arise, Sir Jony Ive: Apple’s design guru collects his Knighthood
Apple’s Jony Ive – arguably the second most important person at the company after Steve Jobs over the past 15 years or so, has been awarded the title of Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) in London today, giving him the right to be r...
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UK regulator reverses Sky pay-TV advantage decision, following Netflix and Lovefilm growth
UK regulator, the Competition Commission (CC) has published revised findings [PDF] today as part of its Movies on Pay TV investigation. It now finds that Sky Movies no longer provides Sky with a material advantage over its rivals in the pay-TV retail mark...
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The Guardian’s n0tice launches Open Journalism Toolkit for publishers, brands, communities & developers
The Guardian‘s n0tice project launched last year as an experimental new way of sharing local news and community events. Now the platform behind it is being opened up as a toolkit that publishers, brands, communities and developers can use as part of...
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Digital Shoreditch kicks off a two-week celebration of innovation in the capital
We’re not sure how they did it, but it seems that the organisers of the Digital Shoreditch Festival have managed to bring some sunshine to the capital along with two weeks of talks, presentations and networking.
Adaptive Web design, and the creating...
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LeWeb London startup competition semifinalist shortlist announced
As you may have heard, the French are coming to take over in June as LeWeb London 2012 conference arrives to celebrate and explore digital advances.
The theme for the event is ‘Faster than Real Time‘ so it’s no surprise that the startup ...
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Smithfield Case secures £650k seed round to improve online shopping for men in the UK
Online clothes shopping in the UK is a growth market, but so far, there is very little that caters to the tastes of the fashionable male. With the completion of a £650k ($1m) seed round, Smithfield Case is looking to address this and create a haven for th...
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The home of the future takes one step closer as AlertMe smart home tech partners with British Gas
AlertMe, the smart home tech company has sealed a deal with British Gas to provide a personalised energy efficiency advice service to UK customers with smart meters. So, The Jetsons‘ home of the future is not so far away after all.
Smart meters are ...
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Twitter releases small business guide tailored to the British audience
Twitter has just celebrated its first year anniversary for its London office with impressive stats including 10m active users in the UK. To further support for its British users, the microblogging service has released a UK Small Business Guide with advice...
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Northern Ireland Assembly opens up data for developers, researchers and app makers
The Northern Ireland Assembly is opening up for data fans and developers to take a closer look at its work and consider how this information can be translated for apps or presentations.
The open project allows data on the work of the Assembly and its Comm...
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London NHS Trust fined £90,000 for faxing patient records to the wrong number
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced today that the Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust has been fined £90,000 ($142k) following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA).
The breach first happened in Ma...
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Tears, Tantrums & Tech episode 5: Reality sets in for the accelerator teams [Video]
In part five of our video series following three startups taking part in the Springboard accelerator in London, it’s time to take a look at how the teams are getting on.
What challenges do the team face? This week, Springboard mentor Salim Virani of...
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UK bookseller Waterstones to carry Amazon’s Kindle, ditches plans for rival e-reader

If you can’t beat them, join them.
UK bookseller Waterstones (previously known as Waterstone’s) has inked a deal with Amazon that will see it sell Kindle devices and ‘e-reading services’ through its nearly 300 UK stores (via BBC)....
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This Week in Media: From Internet Week NY to YouTube’s 7th Birthday
With the Internet Week taking New York by storm for the last few days, it has been yet another busy week in the media world. Here’s our selection of news and trends that can’t be missed.
Video rules the web – happy birthday, YouTube!
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Musical ping pong and hacked lightsabers: How the first Music Tech Fest explored the future of sound
The first Music Tech Fest took place through the end of last week and part of the weekend at Ravensbourne College in London.
The event gathered artists, performers and technologists who gave presentations and made new things on the spot to address the fut...
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London fashion: Meet 5 startups re-shaping the industry
London has always been a massive contributor to the international fashion scene. From world-famous designers like Paul Smith, Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood and the late Alexander McQueen to the bevy of gorgeous faces like Kate Moss, Lily Cole and Ag...
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Crazy about custom: 5 fashion startups made for you
In the U.S., a standard for men’s clothing sizes was established during the Civil War when the government had to buy uniforms for soldiers in the North. Women’s sizing standards came a bit later in the 1940s when the government had to buy nurs...
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Online marketplace notonthehighstreet.com scores $15.8m from Fidelity, Index and Greylock
Notonthehighstreet.com, an online marketplace where you can buy a wide variety of unique products straight from over 3,000 small businesses, this morning announced that it has raised £10 million ($15.8 million) in Series D funding.
The round was led by Fi...
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The Financial Times predicts more digital subscribers than it sells print copies by end of year
By the end of the year, the Financial Times could have more digital subscribers than it sells print copies, FT.com‘s managing director Rob Grimshaw predicted this week during an on-stage interview with NewsCred‘s CEO Shafqat Islam as part of t...
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FindWatchShare: Revolver rolls out Facebook video-on-demand service in the UK and Ireland
UK independent film distributor Revolver Entertainment has launched a new Facebook video-on-demand (So-VOD) service at Cannes Film Festival 2012.
FindWatchShare reels in Revolver’s library of indie flicks, new and old, letting users search, share an...
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UK Pirate Party sees more than 1.8m visits in 24 hours after ISPs block The Pirate Bay website
The move to stop Pirate Bay in the UK means that ISPs are now blocking the site due to an order from the High Court. Tough times for pirates, but high times for the UK Pirate Party (PPUK) as research on TorrentFreak today points out that the political par...
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Vyclone: This collaborative video app is just what citizen journalists ordered
2011 was a tumultuous year for the Middle East, but the troubles also served as a reminder of the role technology can play in giving everyone a voice.
Live video-streaming platform Bambuser is one example of how citizens took the initiative and reported o...
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Flat-Club leverages trust, social networks to facilitate short-term letting; lands funding

Flat-Club, a London startup that enables people to sell and book short-term accommodations in a relatively closed ‘circle of trust’, has secured funding.
The investors joining the Series A financing round are all non-traditional VCs; the lis...
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Man City Football Club furthers digital engagement as it partners with Foursquare
Manchester City Football club has never been afraid to push digital boundaries to engage its fans. Today the club has announced a partnership with the location-based social network Foursquare.
City supporters can now check into Foursquare at the Etihad St...
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UK Facebook account hacker hit with 12-month prison sentence
Following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Service’s Central e-Crime unit, 21-year-old Gareth Cross of West Sussex was sentenced to twelve months after hacking into a private Facebook account.
In January 2011, Crosskey gained unauthorised...
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Monmouthpedia: The World’s first Wikipedia town, is set to go live
The Internet of things is becoming easier to grasp as household appliances, pot plants and other objects are connected to the Internet to let us know more about them or update on environmental changes. Though the appearance of the Internet of things is st...
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Catch up with headlines on the move as VeriFone launches Sky News in London’s iconic black cabs
Passengers in London’s Hackney carriages will soon be able to make the most of their time when stuck in traffic jams or on the move.
VeriFone, known for its payment systems, has announced an agreement with Sky News to broadcast bulletins in licensed...
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The BBC’s plans for “the first digital Olympics”? 24 simultaneous live streams across 4 screens.
The BBC has given the biggest indication yet of what its digital offering will look like for the London Olympics, and The Next Web was on hand yesterday to get a glimpse of the action.
Back in January last year, the BBC announced it was reshaping BBC Onli...
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Europe’s Square rival iZettle to ship 3,000 card readers to UK testers, warms up for summer launch
iZettle is one of the European companies doing what Jack Dorsey’s Square is doing in the United States: trying to convince small businesses and individuals to take card payments with its mobile applications and a custom-built reader.
So far, the mob...
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The New Do-It-All Airbus Tanker Transport Will Keep the RAF Flying High [Video]





As the Royal Air Force's fleet of heavy transport and tanker jets come to the end of their operational service lives, the RAF is faced with replacing a lot of planes. Luckily, the new Airbus A330 Multi Rol...
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UK Internet users hitting up social media for customer service double in 8 months to 18 million
According to a study conducted by Fishburn Hedges and Echo Research, as many as 18 million UK Internet users have turned to social media at one time or another to connect with brands.
It doesn’t come as a surprise that more and more people are takin...
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Startup Weekend London announces registration and dates for June event
If you missed the Startup Weekend event for London in March, then it’s time to get your kit together and think about the Summer event.
Startup weekend has opened registration for the next event taking place at the Google Campus in June.  Last time t...
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Twitter UK marks its first anniversary by reaching 10m active users, 80% of them mobile
A year ago, a service called Twitter, which had taken the web and mobiles by storm, opened up shop in London as part of its global expansion. A year later and with 10 million active users in the UK, it’s no wonder that this little bird is looking to...
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Apple fan boy Rob Shoesmith to donate his home to charity if his eBook hits 1m downloads
You may have encountered Rob Shoesmith before. He first made headlines in 2009 after the then 27-year-old binman from Coventry, England, submitted one of the first ideas selected by MEDL and its App Incubator service.
The competition was to help people de...
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‘Magic Tate Ball’ app launched to show you art based on your surroundings
Not ones to shy away from digital fun, the Tate Modern art gallery has launched the Magic Tate Ball, a free app for Nokia and iOS that selects art works based on your location and surroundings.
The app uses the movement sensors in your mobile device so th...
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A UK woman is taking Facebook to court to unmask anonymous trolls who made her life a misery
A UK woman is taking Facebook to court in an attempt to uncover the identities of anonymous users who attacked her on the social network, the Telegraph reports.
The real case for Nicola Brookes, a 45-year-old Brighton resident is not against Facebook itse...
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Russell Brand in Court of the Day


Russell Brand’s, um, brand of comedy isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but, if anything, he’s pretty good at being on his toes when it comes to making light of a dull situation. As is such, when Brand was testifying about ...
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Tears, Tantrums & Tech: Episode 4 of our accelerator series: Lion Kings [Video]
In part three of our video series following three startups taking part in the Springboard accelerator in London, we’re looking at Birdback, a startup that wants to help you get more out of your debit or credit card.
With a founding team from Denmark and I...
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Virgin Atlantic is set to be the first British airline to offer full in-flight mobile network access
Airplanes and underground stations were once the last vestiges of respite from the bleeping, blipping and clicking of mobile phones in the UK. But with WiFi coming to a London underground station near you some time soon, the news that airlines are set to ...
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O2 announces new mobile roaming tariffs for European travelers, £1.99 for 25MB of data
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s news that EU price caps on mobile data roaming were coming into force from this July, restricting EU networks to charging no more than €0.70 (plus VAT) per megabyte of data, UK operator O2 has announced a new data roa...
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The French are coming: Here’s what you can expect at LeWeb London
LeWeb, the massive European tech conference,  is coming to London in June and the line up of speakers and events looks to be superb.
If you work in the sector or have a passion for startups, websites, innovation, entrepreneurs and fancy being stimulated b...
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Personal data assistant Dashlane launches in the UK to speed up online shopping
Dashlane, the personal data assistant has launched in the UK to help make online purchases more efficient. The application is designed to give consumers a speedy way to checkout by using only one password.
Beware impulsive shoppers, getting your purchases...
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