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News
- London startups to take fintech unicorn crown from San Francisco(CityAM covers Robert Walters and Vacancy Soft research)
- New European AI ethics guidelines announced (UK Tech News)
- Business confidence crashes to lowest point since 2012 (Fresh Business Thinking covers BDO Optimism Index)
- Secret Escapes and Zoopla investor Octopus Ventures unleashes £83m growth fund (Elite Business)
- Pearson is committing $50m to fund next-gen edtech startups(TechCrunch)
Opinion
- Missing: working class founders (secret founder, Sifted)
- Facebook and the tech giants are welcoming government regulation – that’s panic signal for all of us (Dom Hallas, executive director, Coadec)
- Why does the government want Britain to be a world leader in censorship? (Matthew Lesh, head of research, Adam Smith Institute)
- Social enterprises are now finding business solutions to tackle almost all of the world’s biggest problems (Iqbal Wahhab, founder, Roast)
- Capitalism may be under fire, but competition is extremely popular (Matt Singh, founder, Number Cruncher Analytics)
- On burnout, startup anxiety and unstoppable crying (Alex Depledge (co-founder and chief executive, Resi)
Features
- Sifted: From Victorian industry to fintech: Northern England’s new business identify in 2019 (profiling the Northern Tech Awards winners)
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