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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Buenos Aires is Latin America’s creative hub, with an emerging local tech startup culture. BA-based digital entrepreneur Daniel Stolar reports

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

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

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.

TCi100: The former Reuters building in backstreet Clerkenwell has become one of the UK’s most modern and resilient data centres. Julian King explains how tech and finance businesses in and around Tech City will benefit.