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News
- Number of firms paid late by Cabinet Office nearly triples since 2016 despite late payment crackdown (CityAM)
- HSBC announces new partnership with female founder support group Allbright (Elite Business)
- Fintech hub plans lottery share startup success with the public (Forbes covers Level39’s ‘Equity Heroes’ scheme)
Opinion
- For heaven’s sake, just pay your interns (James Uffindell, co-founder, Bright Network)
- Why AI can’t solve everything (Vyacheslav Polonski, researcher, University of Oxford)
- As tech invades cycling, are bike activists selling out? (Aarian Marshall, writer, Wired)
- Accelerators boost investment in UK startups but Brexit threatens funding(Trevor Clawson, contributor, Forbes)
Features
- The Guardian: The Syrian medics helped back to work by UK startups
- Huffington Post: Jack Dorsey has no clue what he wants (interview transcript)
- FT: Snap’s chief Evan Spiegel: Taming tech and fighting with Facebook(interview)
- Economist: Is Google an evil genius?