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Robots eh, it seems they will have a lot of explaining to do, when they have stolen all of our jobs. Or perhaps the robots that built the robots that stole all of our jobs, will have a lot of explaining to do....Or the robots that designed the robots, that built the robots…. Fear of job automation is currently at fever point... so what better way to play the ol’ doomsday scenario, th...
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There is now a UK and Ireland edition of Mashable on Snapchat Discover.  So what you may say! And that’s perhaps a fair comment. However any doubts that this is just a pie-in-the-sky collaboration, marketing ploy and clever joint marketing campaign, should be immediately dismissed - this launch could be a further sign that traditional publishing and written digital cont...
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We’ve all been there. The quick dash to grab a lunchtime sarnie becomes an ordeal when we’re met with a huge queue. Of course the same applies with the all-essential morning coffee. Everyone else always seems to get there first. If that all sounds pretty familiar, then we reckon that our latest Startup of the Week ought to be right up your street. Ordoo is a mobile ordering app desi...
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Tech For Good Company, Elemental Software, which has developed an award winning social prescribing digital platform that connects patients, health and social care professionals and community health & wellness providers, announced today that it has raised £300,000 with the help of ClearlySo, Europe’s leading impact investment bank. Elemental's platform is a comprehensive social pre...
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Last week we took a look at Elemental Software, a social prescribing digital platform that connects patients, health and social care professionals and community health & wellness providers. This week we continue the Tech for Good / Health-Tech theme, with a look at pioneering HealthTech startup OurPath who recently closed a £500k fundraising round and secured a N...
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Launched in 2016, Thriva is a digital health startup that recently closed a £1.5m seed funding round, which included support from investors such as Seedcamp and 500 Startups, as well as the founders of TransferWise and Zoopla. They easily reached their funding goal by impressing investors with their rapid growth and their health tracking vision, putting health monitoring firmly in the hands ...
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Whilst construction is one of the most diverse industrial sectors, it hasn’t always been the most innovative. Tradition rather than disruption has been paramount. However our latest startup of the week is on a mission to change all that and in so doing aims to address many of the industry’s efficiency problems and challenges. Buildupp is a new platform which hopes to become “the...
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Launched yesterday in the US, Canvas helps recruiters screen more job candidate's, and market employment brands to millennials with the first text-based interviewing platform. GR8 idea or LOL, we took a look at all the details to see if the fingers can really do the talking… We've heard of people being sacked by text, and even rejected for a job by text, but not, on the whole, being interv...
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Even within the world of co-working spaces, we have disruptors and innovators. Here’s just a few examples... We recently wrote about the US initiative Mountains Work, wherein businesses are given the opportunity to go to a small mountain, beach, or resort community to experience what it would be like to live, work and co-work there. Workers will work normal days in the spaces provided ...
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This Wyzowl survey shows that 63% of businesses surveyed are using video as a marketing tool, with a huge 99% of those intending to keep it up and 82% saying that they will increase spending on video marketing this year. Apparently 4 times as many customers would rather watch a video about a product than read about it, and a video on a website’s landing page can increase conversion by 80%. B...
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Name any city in the world and there’s a good chance that there will be a statue of someone famous there (okay, maybe not any city). The chances that said famous person will be a woman (and not royalty or Generic semi clad lady), however, are slim.Where there are statues of women, they are grossly outnumbered by those of men, and are often hidden in secret corners of the city. For example, i...
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Insurance is an industry that has remained unchanged for a very long time. The structures used by the vast majority of insurance companies by no stretch of the imagination favour the customer, they are outdated, and the industry needs a shakeup. Here are some disruptive InsurTech startups aiming to do just that. InMyBag InMyBag is aimed primarily at mobile workers, for whom insurance cover on th...
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