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News

• Investors urge tech startups to hoard cash (FT)
• Social media firms could face ban if they fail to remove harmful content, warns Matt Hancock (CityAM)
• SMEs urged to register for continued Horizon 2020 research funding (UK Tech News)
• Inspirational exporters recognised with board of trade awards (gov.uk)

Opinion

• How hiring ex-offenders can be beneficial for your startup (Varsha Saraogi, features writer, Elite Business)
• Making one million tech jobs in London a reality (Russ Shaw, founder, Tech London Advocates)
• La French Tech faces its next challenge: How to go big (Chris O’Brien, European correspondent, Venture Beat)
• London will love e-scooters but we’ll wait for permission (Fredrik Hjelm, CEO, Voi Scooters)
• Of course AI can be biased – it’s up to businesses to fix that (Kirstin Gillon, IT technical manager, ICAEW)
• How not to waste £675m and how best to create better towns and high streets (Matthew Hopkinson, co-founder, Didobi)

Features

• BBC: Shops in a box: The rise of container retail parks
• Evening Standard: What is retail tycoon Mike Ashley’s big plan?
• Forbes: This woman is making disability inclusion a leadership issue
• FT: South Korea pins hopes on startups to power economic growth