HACKNEY HOUSE INTERVIEW: Mixing Digital is an events, PR and communications company, based in east London and working with tech startups and more. Co-founder and director Charlie Lines explains her firm’s approach.
Skills and cash gap limit Tech City growth
TECHCITYFUTURES: A shortage of skilled tech talent is the biggest single problem facing the Tech City business cluster, according to new research conducted exclusively for TechCityInsider.
Read more...Quick thinking
TECHCITYINSIDER100: Smesh is an east London-based startup that captures the collective conscience of social media for clients ranging from Orange to the Guardian. Founder and CEO Tom Quick explains
Read more...Mobilising London’s Freeformers
TCi100: Businesses need sharp young tech talent – and young people need tech training. Freeformers brings the two needs together and satisfies both. Cofounder Jason Bates explains how.
Read more...Place your social bets
TCi100: Plumbee is a Shoreditch-based startup making waves in the social gaming space. Chief executive Raf Keustermans denies that it’s an easy target for a fast buck.
Read more...Happy users, happy you
User experience has moved to the forefront of most technology design, yet it remains an often-overlooked discipline. Rebecca Dean highlights what happens when UX is ignored.
Read more...Festival showcases best of digital east
Digital Shoreditch happens for the third time from 20-31 May. We’re pleased to be able to offer TCi readers a 25% discount on entry.
Read more...Argentina stakes its digital claim
Buenos Aires is Latin America’s creative hub, with an emerging local tech startup culture. BA-based digital entrepreneur Daniel Stolar reports
Read more...Telling digital tales
Digital is changing storytelling, as audiences evolve ever more into users, with stories themselves part of a wider system, Paul Bennun, cofounder and chief creative officer at Somethin’ Else, argues
Read more...Celebrating the synth centenary
On 17 May, Shoreditch celebrates 100 years of electronic music, with a special event from music-art collective Noise of Art at Village Underground. How has technology changed music creation? We spoke to the event’s curator, Ben Osborne
Read more...Not just the festival ticket
TCi100: The global market for music festivals is worth an astonishing £12 billion. Yet for the average festival goer, booking all the various elements of a festival experience can be a quagmire as bad as a wet weekend at Glastonbury. Festicket cofounder Zak Sabban explains how his business is changing all that.
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