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RECRUIT.FYI: A Lot Has Changed in the Last Five Years

Just over five years ago I was in the process of setting up Be-IT. One of the key indicators that I was closely monitoring was the state of the economy, bearing in mind that five years ago we were still coming out of the Great Recession.

Deciding when to start a new company is not just a question of augury (examining animal entrails is frowned upon nowadays) combined with a slice of luck and a…

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#change #Gareth Biggerstaff #RECRUIT.FYI. BE-IT #recruitment

Digital Xtra: Angus Young Engineers: The CAD/CAM Café

Angus Young Engineers (AYE) are an afterschool engineering education based charity, dedicated to steering young people into education and careers involving STEM. This year, with support from Digital Xtra Fund, AYE are building on the successful projects they have delivered since 2003, with the launch of The CAD/CAM Café, a programme to facilitate peer-to-peer learning at Forfar Academy and…

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#3D printing #angus young engineers #CAD CAM Cafe #Digital Xtra #drones #STEM

Assure APM Expands, Appoints New Chair

Scottish IT company Assure APM is expanding. The company has relocated to a larger office in Rutland Square in Edinburgh to accommodate their growing business.

Assure has also appointed John Waddell to the Assure APM board as chairman. Mr Waddell was chief executive of Edinburgh-based Archangels for 10 years, before stepping down in 2015.

The company has more than doubled the size of its team in…

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#Assure APM #edinburgh #expansion #John Waddell #London

UK Leads Europe In Year of Record Tech Investment

The UK’s digital technology industry is Europe’s leading creator of billion dollar businesses, according to new research from tech investor GP Bullhound.

In the past year, the UK has added six billion-dollar tech companies – worth $12.4 billion to the collection of 26existing companies, more than any other European market. The UK has also produced the greatest number of billion-dollar companies…

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#decacorns #GP Bullhound #investment #megarounds #strategic investors #Titans of Tech #uk tech sector

FanDuel Founders & Staff Will Get Nothing From Sale

US sports site, Legal Sports Report claims it has the offer to the shareholders for the ‘merger‘ of Scottish tech unicorn FanDuel, to the betting company Paddy Power, which show that ordinary share holders, which include the company’s current staff – and the original founders – will receive nothing from the acquisition.

In a PDF file available through the website, the offer documents are quoted…

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#acquisition #FanDuel #founders #merger #PaddyPower #Shares

Edinburgh Napier Launches Fintech Masters Degree

Edinburgh Napier University is bringing together the Schools of Computing and Business to launch a new, dedicated Masters degree in Financial technology, aka ‘fintech’

The new MSc will draw content from both schools, offering a new opportunity for anyone with a background in maths, computing or finance, or indeed professional work experience within the industry.

Students will study subjects…

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#business #computing #Edinburgh Napier #fintech #Masters Degree #MSc #Napier University

Digital Trends Every Business Can Embrace

New technologies have the potential to transform organisations for the better, but rapid changes bring with them the pressure to adapt and innovate.

Keeping up with the latest trends can be a challenge. There’s a temptation to shy away from changes in the digital sphere and stick to what’s working now. But failing to embrace change just leaves the field wide open for more adaptable competitors to…

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#apps #AR #blockchain #emerging technologies #Livestreaming #machine learning #social media #VR

Speeding up the Wrong Work: DevOps Maturity in Business Decisions

It’s a fact that common sense is not that common and is often not a factor, except in reflection after the fact.

If we could simply learn from each other rather than rely upon a uniqueness agenda, businesses would stop creating the same failure points with new language and excuses around it.

Digital is a form of communication with customers, where technology is the mechanism

Accepting that…

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#business intelligence #devops #Maturity #Minimum Viable Experience #Service Design

DIGIT Deal Roundup - June 2018

DIGIT Deal Roundup – June 2018

Acquisitions Incremental Group

Glasgow-based digital technology services company Incremental Group, has acquired Gap Consulting, a Microsoft Gold Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Partner.

This acquisition takes Incremental’s headcount to 125 across the company’s threemain locations: Glasgow, Inverurie in Aberdeenshire and now Northwich in Cheshire, as well as sales offices in London and its…

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#acquisition #Floatation #funding #investment #IPO #partnership #Results #VC

£150M Floatation for Nucleus Financial?

Multiple media channels report that Nucleus Financial, the Scottish fintech is planning to float on the junior Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in July 2018, in a move which could value the company at £150 million.

Valuation

While the exact share price of the floatation has yet to be fixed, the Times reports that the company could be valued at as much as £150 million.

The floatation is…

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#AIM #Alternative Investment Market #fintech scotland #Floatation #IPO #nucleus financial

DIGIT Movers and Shakers JUNE 2018

Recruitment Sopra Steria

Sopra Steria Scotland has announced that its Scottish regional director Alison McLaughlin is being seconded to the Scottish government to help realise its digital transformation ambitions.

Stepping up to take the reins from Alison will be Mags Moore, previously Head of Business Development in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Mags comes to the role with a wealth of…

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#awards #Expansions #Honours #movers & shakers #recruitment #Relocations

Digital Xtra: West College Scotland - Renfrewshire Coding Clubs

Digital Xtra: West College Scotland – Renfrewshire Coding Clubs

Inspiring young people to become the next generation of coders and technologists, West College Scotland’s Renfrewshire Coding Clubs are uniquely placed to inspire pupils, college students, and teachers through a programme of extracurricular activities, a network of college STEM Ambassadors, and a CPD programme to engage teachers in the local community.

Originally launched in 2016 with support…

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#BT Scotland #Digital Xtra #Micro:Bit #west college scotland

First Cohort of Unlocking Ambition Enterprise Fellows Announced

The second cohort of Unlocking Ambition Enterprise Fellows have been announced by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).

The start-ups cover a broad range of industries and sectors, but with a strong underlying focus on technology and data. Companies range from a novel online education platform for children to aid financial learning, to creating new breeds of commercially farmed insects; from an…

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#Enterprise Fellowship #RSE #scottish enterprise #Unlocking ambition challenge

New Chair For Data Lab

The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data, has appointed a new chairperson to help deliver on its mission to help Scotland generate significant economic and social value from cutting-edge analytics and data science.

Mark Hunter, Chief Data Officer and Director of Labs at Sainsbury’s Bank, who has been on the Data Lab board since 2017, will take over from Neil Logan, Chief Executive of I…

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#Chair #data lab #Gillian Docherty #Incremental Group #Mark Hunter #Neil Logan #Sainsbury&039;s Bank

The Open Banking Revolution Gathers Pace

Regulations designed to open up the UK’s current account market could lead to an influx of new players and services according to a new PwC Open Banking report.

In January 2018, new rules came into effect requiring UK banks to share current account holder data with third parties through application programming interfaces (APIs).

These APIs can be used by challenger banks, fintechs, tech companies…

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#fintech #open banking #open data institute #PWC

FinTech Scotland Announces Board Members

FinTech Scotland the industry body for Scotland’s financial technology sector has announced the board members who will work with CEO Stephen Ingledew to oversee and enable the organisation’s strategic plans to make Scotland one of the top five fintech hubs in the world.

The announcement follows the recent appointment of David Fergusson, the Chief Executive of Nucleus Financial, as chair of the…

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#Board Members #fintech #fintech scotland #scotland

Scotland Women in Technology Win 'Most Influential' Award

Scotland Women in Technology Win ‘Most Influential’ Award

Scotland Women in Technology (SWiT), the non-profit organisation which celebrates and champions trailblazing women in Scotland’s digital technology sector, are celebrating multiple wins in the 2018 Women in Technology Awards.

The organisation was voted the UK’s Most Influential Network by the judges, while Gillian McLennan, an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan in Glasgow and a board member of…

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#awards #Gillian McLennan #Mentor of the Year #Most Influential Network #Scotland Women in Technology #SWiT #WiT

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