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News
- Five new business councils to advise the prime minister on post-brexit opportunities (gov.uk)
- UK second biggest investor in European startups last year (UK Tech News covers Tech Nation and Digital Economy Council research)
- Nearly three in five UK family businesses say their long term goal is to contribute to the community (London Loves Business covers PwC research)
- British high street losing 14 shops a day, research shows (Independent covers PwC research)
Opinion
- From artificial intelligence to quantum computing, Britain is a tech superpower (Margot James MP, minister for digital)
- The emergence of women business angel investors: gender shift or marginal change? (Richard Harrison, chair in entrepreneurship and innovation, University of Edinburgh Business School)
- Politicians should be wary of regulating the internet (Rachel Cunliffe, comment and features editor, CityAM)
- With a net 1,123 stores vanishing in the first half of the year, does the high street have a future? (James Moore, chief business commentator, Independent)
- How aspiring entrepreneurs can get serious about their bit on the side(Anil Stocker, CEO, Market Invoice)
- The digital services tax is not the right solution (Hugo Grimston, CFO, Paddle)
Features
- New York Times: Sundar Pichai of Google: ‘Technology doesn’t solve humanity’s problems’
- MIT Technology Review: Is this AI? We drew you a flowchart to work it out
- Elite Business: The top ten unusual ways entrepreneurs relieved stress in their startups
- Qz: A lack of startups means half of all US companies are now more than ten years old