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Noisy Book - empowering young readers and storytellers
by: Startacus Admin ~ 17th November 2019The lowdown on Noisy Book, the app that will let you turn your children's books and imaginations into an immersive, magical experience...
Most parents understand the joy of reading a book with their children, whether they do all the voices or not. The gradual move from you reading to them, to them reading to you is an important part of both the child’s development and of your bonding with t...
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Turn on the Subtitles
by: Startacus Admin ~ 14th August 2018"If you want to teach a nation to read: Just turn on the subtitles". This simple advice might just help make kids become proficient readers...
Oli Barrett MBE, amongst many other things, co-founded StartUp Britain, Tenner, and social innovation agency Cospa. Tenner, for example (now run by Young Enterprise), has challenged over 250,000 school pupils to see what they can achieve in one month,...
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Bookaxe chats to Startacus
by: Startacus Admin ~ 1st August 2018Bookaxe was founded by an internationally published author and a data whizz. Focused on matching readers to their perfect books, we previously featured Bookaxe on Startacus earlier this year, so were delighted to catch up with co-founder Lucy Cruickshanks at Digital DNA '18, where Bookaxe were pitching.
Bookaxe is a book discovery platform that uses machine learning techniques to better...
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Bookaxe makes book discovery easy with machine learning
by: Startacus Admin ~ 27th April 2018In the US and UK alone, an estimated 500,000 books were published last year. Yet for readers, finding one you truly love is incredibly hard. Step forward Bookaxe, a book discovery platform that solves serious pain points for both readers and traditional publishers. How? Machine learning techniques of course. Read on (sorry) for all the details...
In the bookselling industry, publishers and bookse...
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Startup of the Week - Illumicrate
by: Startacus Admin ~ 12th July 2017Bibliophiles take note - this one’s for you.
Why?
Because reading and the joy that it brings is at the very core of our latest Startup of the Week.
Illumicrate is a subscription service for book lovers.
Here’s how it works.
Subscribe to the service and every quarter you will receive a crate filled with all sorts of book goodies. There’ll be at least one newly released book (...
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- Lineup 2020 announces key speakers, sponsors and themes 27th Jan 2020 The inaugural LINEUP tech event, happening in Derry, NI has announced key speakers, sponsors and themes for its 5th March event.
- Ideation NI Thon at NI Science Festival sets out to solve global issues 17th Jan 2020 At one-day event Ideation NI Thon, students will get the chance to solve global and local sustainability, environmental, city and health problems.
- NI startup ESTHER takes flight to New York 16th Jan 2020 NI startup ESTHER, a peer-2-peer giving platform allowing charitable donors to give money directly to people living in poverty, head to New York for a 4-day fact finding mission.
- 2019 stats show that the gender pay gap continues 14th Jan 2020 Recent research by Starling bank shows that in 2019, women earned up to £12,319 less per year than their male colleagues of the same age and within the same industry
