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From supply chain solutions and health and safety solutions for construction sites, through to waste management ideas, construction tech innovation and startups wanted for Wincanton Innovation Lab Sprint 3. As one of the UK’s leading third-party logistics providers, Wincanton plays a huge role in construction projects all across the UK. Now, with the launch of Sprint 3 of W2 Labs - an in...
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The lowdown on how Edinburgh-based startup Folarity is using tech to reverse the decline of our forests... Forests are the lungs of the world, absorbing huge amounts of carbon dioxide and keeping us all alive. Until we decide that a wooden toilet seat is warmer to sit on and so we go and chop them down. As well as breathing, forest cover helps with biodiversity. In the UK, a prolonged decline in...
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The innovative software that is helping businesses to "solve tomorrow's problems today"... London-based data visualisation startup Emu Analytics has created a platform to turn the billions of points of data collected all around us into visualised, actionable insights. They can do this through two products: Flo.w and LINE. Flo.w captures, analyses and visualises location and time-based data ...
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The lowdown on Leeds-based data, analytics and cybersecurity startup The Data City, which has data provision at its core... Leeds-based data, analytics, and cybersecurity startup The Data City has been named by Tech Nation as both one of the UK’s most exciting tech startups and one of the top 3 tech startups in Yorkshire and Humber. The startup has also been shortlisted for the se...
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Showtime Analytics - The Irish startup that's providing data analytics products and services to the global cinema industry. With services like Netflix and the speed with which movies go from big screen to Blu-ray, cinema sees a smaller and more discerning audience these days than it once did, and so it is more vital than ever for cinemas to understand their audience, keep track of every piec...
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Yumpingo - The startup that's using big data analytics and machine learning to empower business owners in the hospitality sector... As all business owners know, customer satisfaction is an absolute must - in every market sector. Gaining information on what a customer wants, their views on a product or service or the likelihood of them becoming a repeat or regular customer is vital. After all...
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Google Maps is good for getting directions and checking how long it will take you to get to the cinema to see Star Wars, but it isn’t updated often enough to be useful for business. When looking up your childhood home in Google Street View, you may notice that the images are from years ago; the satellite imagery isn’t much better. Usually, it is updated every 2 to 4 weeks, but images c...
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The drone industry might have started off as something of a fad, but where people might have expected interest in it to die down, it has only become stronger and stronger. In the US alone, just under 2.5m personal drones were sold in 2016. And while the individual hobbyist is finding entertainment in drones, businesses and entrepreneurs are finding more and more applications for them, cutting down...
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There’s a fair bit of stuff going on at Echobox - so forgive us if we try to summarise. Firstly, Echobox uses AI to intelligently automate content distribution on social media for media companies and publishers - taking over the logistics and legwork of social media management. Basically, it is an AI tool and it takes on the role of your social media assistant. They've even given it a name...
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Belfast has just played host to a Big Data conference, where local businesses have been urged to increase their revenues by making the most of ‘big data analytics’. Big data is something that you are going to hear more and more about, as the world of enterprise seeks to constantly find new ways of boosting takings; it is likely big data will play a key role in this. In a nutshell, big...
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