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News
- Tech startups’ confidence rises despite political uncertainty (CityAM covers a Studio Graphene survey)
- Amazon investment in Deliveroo halted as competition watchdog launches investigation (Independent)
- Station F launches a co-living space for 600 startup people (TechCrunch)
- Regulator steps up scrutiny of fintech banks (CityAM)
- Regulation rulebook rewritten to ensure UK leads tech revolution and empowers consumers (gov.uk launches ‘Regulation for fourth industrial revolution’ policy paper)
Opinion
- We need a prime minister who can channel the potential of digital Britain(Kulveer Ranger, senior vice president – strategy & comms, Atos)
- How entrepreneurship offers a route out of industrial decline (Christian Gherhes, research associate, Chay Brooks, lecturer, and Tim Vorley, professor of entrepreneurship, University of Sheffield)
- In the tech world, a private education is no golden ticket (Aidan Cramer, co-founder, JobLab)
- What startup employees can teach the rest of us about work (Anand Chopra-McGowan, VP, managing director, General Assembly)
- Free childcare should be a right – and would boost the economy (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
- Has your business got real pride? Don’t just talk the talk (Mike Foster, founder & creative director, Straight Forward Design)
Features
- BBC: The firm with 900 staff and no office
- Startups: The Startups 100 2019: The UK’s best and most exciting new businesses revealed
- Bill Gates: The side of Paul Allen I wish more people knew about (transcript of Forbes Philanthropy Summit speech)