Tech

The Scottish capital has morphed into the second strongest tech hub in the UK

It was an attack on a neighbour that inspired Rebecca Pick to launch her personal alarm start-up Pick Protection, which now has the UK’s eight million-strong army of lone workers in its sights.

Forget confidence, forget a positive mindset, forget even playing during the summer, research has revealed that fear could be the reason for sporting success.

A remote Highland peninsula could be the site of Britain’s first launchpad for future space missions under new plans submitted to the UK’s space agency.

Artists, architects and designers have come up with some novel solutions to the old question of how to transform Scotland’s post-industrial spaces.

The nutritional value of farmed salmon could be boosted by a new generation of fish feed created from algae by a young Scots scientist.

Nucleus Financial, the Edinburgh-based fintech business, is moving to a new home in the capital after agreeing a deal for space at the Greenside office development on Blenheim Place.

Tidal energy outfit Nova Innovation is to take part in a flagship €20 million (£17.6m) European project.

Billed as Scotland’s “tech gathering”, Turing Fest returns to Edinburgh in August, with some 1,000 delegates expected to attend the two-day event to hear from a line-up of 50 speakers.

Aquila Insight, the Edinburgh-based data analytics specialist, has been acquired by US marketing agency Merkle.

Tayburn, the Edinburgh-based digital brand agency, has bagged a raft of new clients after beating off competition from around the UK.

Nominations opened today for Entrepreneurial Scotland’s annual Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, which are now in their 21st year.

Crowdfunding technology specialist ShareIn is supporting the launch of a venture that allows online investment in community energy projects.

A new generation of life-like and lusty sex robots could soon be thrusting society into uncharted and dark territory, experts have warned.

Rebecca Pick, the entrepreneur behind personal safety alarm start-up Pick Protection, today launched her first devices after raising almost £1 million to take them to market.

There is no doubt that the UK, along with other counties, is bursting at the seams with start-up companies – I’m being careful with my language here as I do not and could not class all start-up founders as entrepreneurs.

Accountancy and business advisory firm Deloitte has bolstered its Scottish digital offering with the appointment of a new leadership team at its Edinburgh headquarters.

John Boyd Dunlop. Born: 5 February, 1840 in Ayrshire. Died: 23 October, 1921 in Dublin

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