IT World

MAY 19, 2023

Two years after the UK government promised it would introduce forward a national semiconductor strategy, a new policy paper outlines its efforts to make the UK an industry leader.

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IT World

APRIL 25, 2023

The UK government has announced it will provide £100 million (US$124 million) in initial funding for a Foundation Model Taskforce, set up to support the development of secure and reliable AI models that can be used in industries such as healthcare and education.

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IT World

JANUARY 17, 2022

But the UK government is launching a publicity blitz to have that layer of protection removed. The decision will affect every nation the UK does business with, including those that still value the right to privacy and free speech. Privacy versus safety.

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SaaS Metrics

JUNE 20, 2023

Read more The post Online Gambling Regulations in the UK first appeared on SaaS Metrics. The activities of these casinos are regulated by the United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC). The Commission was instituted based on the Gambling Acts of 2005 and is tasked with the job.

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IT World

JUNE 15, 2023

The UK government has announced $68 million (£54 million) in new investments for the development of AI technology, including $39 million for the creation of a research and innovation ecosystem for responsible and trustworthy AI.

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IT World

JUNE 27, 2023

The UK's Equality and Human Right’s Commission (EHRC) has expressed concern that current proposals regarding the regulation of AI in the country are inadequate to protect human rights.

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IT World

JANUARY 6, 2023

billion purchase of game studio Activision Blizzard is facing closer scrutiny from regulators: A month after a US regulator asked a court to halt the deal, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK regulatory body that investigates potential anti-competitive behavior, has extended the timetable for its ongoing investigation.

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

FaceTime, WhatsApp, and Zoom could be in the crosshairs of UK communications regulator Ofcom, which has announced a probe into cloud services, messenger apps, and smart devices. UK is looking into the clouds. It’s just the latest in a global sequence of regulatory investigations likely to impact Big Tech.

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IT World

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For insight into that dominance, the CMA points out that 97% of all UK mobile web browsing makes use of either Apple or Google’s browser engine. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said it will now investigate both companies for their dominance around browsers, app stores, and cloud gaming.

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IT World

MARCH 23, 2022

Apple is acquiring the UK-based fintech startup Credit Kudos for an undisclosed amount, as Apple typically doesn’t disclose the price of its acquisitions. Credit Kudos last raised £5 million ($6.5 million) in funding back in April 2020.

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IT World

DECEMBER 13, 2022

New research from Slack has found a disconnect between bosses and employees regarding work expectations during the Christmas period, with a third of workers stating they plan to be online and available to work during the holiday season, despite the majority of UK employers encouraging their employees to switch off.

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IT World

JUNE 8, 2022

Thousands of employees in the UK started a four-day week pilot on Monday with no reduction in pay. The pilot project , the largest trial of its kind to date, involves 3,300 workers at 70 companies ranging from a car parts retailer to an animation studio, marketing agency, and fish and chip shop.

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Nimble - Sales

APRIL 4, 2019

The post Nimble + Simply Mail Solutions Delivers Simple, Smart CRM for Office 365 to UK appeared first on Nimble Blog. Newly available to SMS’s 4,500 small- and mid-sized customers, Nimble provides […].

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Your UK team may need more flexibility in Call Me deals that your San Francisco team. Localized landing pages and more are a very simple way to pull this off. And you should do this And finally, the biggest “exception” is non-transparent pricing. I.e., “Call Me”. Every type of deal is priced differently. And that’s OK, up to a point.

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SaaS Metrics

AUGUST 27, 2020

In this article, we will discuss everything you might want to know about playing Online Casino UK for real money. However, there are several ways to protect yourself if you are planning to gamble for real money. Whether you are a newbie or an experienced gamer, these easy tips will help you avoid online scammers and fake online casinos.

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IT World

APRIL 4, 2023

Chinese-owned social media sensation TikTok has been fined almost $16 million for violating provisions of the UK’s General Data Protection Regulation.

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IT World

MAY 4, 2023

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened an initial review into the market for artificial intelligence systems, looking at the underlying foundational large language models that power chatbots such as ChatGPT alongside the opportunities and risks that AI could present.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

“SaaS Capital lends $2 million to $15 million to B2B SaaS companies with at least $3 million of ARR registered and banked in the US, Canada, UK, and Ireland. Yes, it does highly correlate to top-tier growth. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you or a SaaS company you know that fits that description is looking for capital.”

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Yes, we’re including UK in Europe — we’re Yanks). After our biggest, best SaaStr Europa ever this past June in Barcelona, we’re going even bigger with room for 4,000 SaaS and Cloud founders, execs and VCs at SaaStr Europa 2022 in London! 6-7 June at Tobacco Dock.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2023

An Example Of Focus Gone Awry Rippling is launching into the UK market, and it’s a great example of what happens when competitors and companies get too focused.

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IT World

JULY 8, 2022

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching dual investigations into Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of videogame maker Activision Blizzard, and Amazon’s competitive practices related to its Marketplace platform. In January 2022, Microsoft announced it was planning to purchase Activision Blizzard for $68.7

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FastSpring

APRIL 16, 2024

Additional New Payment Methods In addition to the above, FastSpring continues to add improvements to existing payment methods with expansion of PayPal into China and improvements to approval rates in the EU and UK as well as new currencies and regions to be accepted with Amazon Pay later this year.

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IT World

MAY 1, 2023

Apple’s iPhones, Macs, iPads, and other devices all make some use of reference chip designs from Arm, the UK processor design company. Now the company plans to list its shares on the US NASDAQ stock exchange in a move that once again confirms the poor performance of the UK economy.

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IT World

JULY 6, 2022

Depending how you look at it, Apple is gaining a fresh opportunity to explain why the charges it levies at the App Store are fair , or regulators are getting the chance to decide what the future shape of online business will be by defining what constitutes an acceptable profit margin in digital sales.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Depositions, document collection, strategy meetings flood executive calendars - not for one government but for the US, the EU, the UK, & Australia - all core markets for software businesses - each of which can block the merger. Second, unexpected legal bills measured in the millions arise. So can Austria - a pickled red herring [1].

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Trint

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The round, opened in August by The New York Times Company, closes with a £2M (~$2.6M) investment from Edge , the leading growth investor in the UK creative economy. Trint is now one of the UK’s fastest-growing startups, recently named in the Top Ten of the UK Startup 100 List. Individual investors were also part of the round.

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FastSpring

APRIL 25, 2024

Founded in 2005, FastSpring is a privately owned company headquartered in California with offices in the UK, the Netherlands, and Canada. As a merchant of record, FastSpring provides a fully managed payment solution including checkout, fraud mitigation, comprehensive sales tax and VAT compliance, and more.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But should a transaction be subject to review by the US, the EU, the UK, or other jurisdictions, the closing period can take many months, a year, or longer. Regulatory delays have become more common recently when selling to a large technology company. Most mergers close on time. How does the acquirer integrate a company?

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IT World

AUGUST 19, 2022

I recently spoke with Colin Lees, Chief Technology and Information Officer at Openreach , a leading UK internet infrastructure company, to find out more about why the company decided to follow the enterprise trend toward Apple and equip 30,000 of its staffers with iPhones. Who is Openreach?

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IT World

APRIL 24, 2023

UK-based semiconductor design company Arm is reportedly looking to team up with manufacturing partners to develop its own prototype semiconductor, targeted for use in mobile devices, laptops and other electronics.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 3, 2021

3] For more on the role of an independent director, you can read this UK article, The Role of a NED , or this Utah Law Review paper, The Role of Independent Directors in Startup Firms. [4] 5] Seemingly, a UK idiom for working with multiple companies as an advisor/consultant, as opposed to just working at one “real” job.

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IT World

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The study of 61 UK-based companies and about 3,000 employees delivered results that are largely consistent with existing evidence from other studies , “further demonstrating the benefits of reduced-hour, output-focused working,” the study concluded.

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Kellblog

MARCH 18, 2024

Just a quick post to highlight a Balderton Capital webinar I’m doing this week on Wednesday, March 20th at 8:00 AM Pacific, 3:00 PM UK, and 4:00 PM CET. The registration link is here. Since I’ve heard of a few problems with it, you can request an invite as well.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 8, 2023

On the cusp Although the United States’ first approval of CRISPR came after similar decisions in the UK (and Bahrain !), the FDA is demonstrating an increasing willingness to be flexible and patient-focused, particularly in the context of rare genetic diseases.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UK is home to some of the largest payments companies and most successful neobanks in the world, Wise, Starling, and Monzo among them. That success has been bolstered by the fact that the UK is among the world’s most innovative financial services regulatory environments. The UK is a global financial center.

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Kellblog

MAY 13, 2023

The event will be held at 8 am Pacific, 4pm UK, and 5pm Europe time on June 28, 2023. The fun part of the presentation should be not only the audience questions (which we’ll be taking via chat) but also the back-and-forth between Michael and myself as we compare and contract the operator and investor perspective on SaaS metrics.

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ITPro

APRIL 8, 2021

Crown Commercial Service establishes a framework for the design and implementation of software for central gov and public bodies

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