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The lowdown on Clear, the skincare app with a social focus enabling users to track and share their skincare routines. As many of us know, finding the right skincare products that are actually going to work as we’d like them to, can be a real challenge. However one of the best ways of doing this is by finding out what products other people with either the same type of skin or skincare iss...
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The global forex market is a $6.6 trillion-a-day industry, and one that sees the exchange of major, minor and even exotic international currencies. This marketplace is also highly influential, and as it has continued to grow in size, it has also evolved to have a huge and diverse impact on the commercial realm. We’ll explore this further below, while asking exactly how the forex market h...
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  The lowdown on Swapi, the startup that enables users to swap their loyalty rewards, cashback & gift cards between brands. Everyone likes loyalty points. They mean that every now and then we can get a free coffee, a free flight, a free something from the places that we frequent. We probably frequent these places because we like them, obviously, and so getting something for free is a si...
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Richard Horwell, founder of Brand Relations shares his tips for taking that family recipe from kitchen stove to supermarket shelf Business ideas can form in a variety of places. Some of the best begin in a kitchen. Whether a recipe has been handed down through generations, or adapted from dishes experienced while travelling, or created from scratch (by design or by accident), it’s likely ...
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  Joris Kroese, CEO and Founder of Hatch shares his thoughts and insights into the key technology trends to expect in the e-commerce sector in the year ahead While the Covid-19 pandemic was pivotal for e-commerce, we’re only scratching the surface of the impact that it will have for businesses in the next decade, writes Joris Kroese, CEO and Founder of Hatch. In 2020, we witnessed a ...
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Manna is an innovative Irish startup that's on a mission to use commercial drones and make 3-minute delivery within the community a reality We’ve been writing for a while about how drones will become more widespread and more useful as time goes on. Most recently, we wrote about Apian, the startup creating drone-based delivery of COVID-19 test kits, samples, and PPE, but reliance on drones...
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Reboxed is a Brixton-based sustainable commerce startup that's created a smarter, safer, more sustainable way to buy and sell your tech In 2020, Apple was fined €25m by France's competition and fraud watchdog for deliberately degrading the performance of older iPhone models, arguably in an attempt to force users to upgrade; a practice it still applies to older models.  Every year, th...
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KodyPay is a York-based fintech startup that's on a mission to streamline the checkout experience and make it digital and contactless In this age of smartphones, the cloud, decreased patience for waiting, and interconnectivity, it can be frustrating when we find ourselves unable to perform a certain action quickly and simply - something like paying for a thing. One of our own Startacus team has...
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Blueprint, the retailtech startup that's got "Conversational Ecommerce" at its core... If you go into a shop and talk to the staff about your needs, the chances are they will recommend a product to you, tell you why, and then upon your agreement, they will go and get it for you. It’s a simple part of shopping that uses our natural capacity for communication, and it is something that as a ...
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Mercarto wants to give everyone the opportunity of starting their own business via their new eCommerce platform which creates an end-to-end online retail business with no risk and no cost. Founded by entrepreneur Sean Brown, the free, one-stop platform aims to do all the hard work of building a business for you; taking care of web design, sourcing, storage, delivery and payment, with more th...
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