Tech

Edinburgh has been named as the best city in the UK to work for a start-up company.

A Glasgow-based health tech start-up that has been dubbed the “Facebook for care” is to open an office in Silicon Valley after catching the eye of US venture capitalists.

There is no doubt that coffee is booming. Coffee shops, whether they be big brand chains or smaller outfits, are everywhere.

A £3 million “innovation factory” for the construction sector is to open its doors in South Lanarkshire next month.

Edinburgh-headquartered Exception has reinforced its status as one of Scotland's largest indigenous IT businesses with double-digit increases in revenues and profit.

A Canadian company that has developed a method of generating heat from raw sewage has chosen the Clyde Gateway regeneration scheme as the site for its new European headquarters.

But we could be seeing a pause in rise of the financial industry “disrupters” rather than the game-changers running into the sand, writes Stuart Chalmers.

Turing Fest, self-described as “Scotland’s tech gathering”, was at its biggest and best last week at the EICC in Edinburgh.

A Scottish tech start-up which aims to increase sports participation has hit the ground running after securing a six figure investment.

Growing food while living in a city was previously the preserve of allotment holders or those fortunate enough to own a large garden.

Global intellectual property firm Murgitroyd praised bioprocessing startup uFraction8’s “groundbreaking” tech as they awarded the young company a £5,000 prize for winning the Innovator Launchpad competition.

Virgin Media customers are set to see their monthly bills rise by nearly 5 per cent this autumn.

A number of venues across the Edinburgh Festival will be carrying out bag checks for the first time in the 70-year history of the festival.

Newspaper publisher Johnston Press is set to report its interim results tomorrow, with the City looking for further progress on the group’s key objectives.

Almost 900,000 small and medium-sized businesses have suffered a cyber security breach in the last 12 months, a new report suggests.

Attending Microsoft Inspire, the US tech giant’s annual partner conference, is always an interesting prospect. Inspire is Microsoft’s way of getting the global partner community together and kicking off the new financial year, while detailing future strategy.

An American state capital has taken the unparalleled action of banning pedestrians from looking at mobile phones and texting while crossing the road.

Ross, Skye and Lochaber is the worst area in the UK for broadband with around two-thirds of internet connections failing to reach the government’s proposed minimum standard, new ­figures have shown.