Verizon Business opens London 5G Innovation Hub
Verizon Business just opened its London Hub, where it showcases the latest 5G solutions. The hub is aimed at customers in Europe and Asia Pacific, while Verizon Business has to ambition to expand its presence in the regions.
The vendor describes the London Hub as a customisable, modular space, a... Read more
Microsoft cancels new London office plans amid job cuts
Microsoft has announced it is abandoning plans for a new office complex in London, citing the need to cut 10,000 jobs this year as the driving factor behind its decision. The move highlights the extent to which the tech giant's broader cutbacks will impact its real estate needs.
In an email stat... Read more
London might lose its position as tech hub, start-ups warn
Founders fear the UK government's failure to continue fostering new tech ventures. London might lose its position as tech hub.
According to the Financial Times, leaders of UK tech start-ups are worried that "warm words" over the importance of tech from British chancellor Jeremy Hunt are not bac... Read more
Colt breaks ground on new London 4 Data Centre
The company hopes to leverage the new 57MW facilities to attract cloud service providers.
Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) this week announced that it has commenced with the construction of its next hyperscale data centre, called the London 4 Data Centre, located in Hayes, West London
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Vantage Data Centers comes to London with €560 million investment
Vantage Data Centers announced its start on the London market with the development of a 48MW datacenter campus valued at £500 million (about €560 million).
The new campus will be situated on nearly five acres (two hectares) in the PowerGate neighborhood of North Acton in the northwest part of... Read more
London remains Europe’s top hub for tech investment
Study shows records broken all over the world with The City keeping its place at the top of Europe.
London & Partners issued the results of their study this week showing that venture capitalists broke an all-time record in global investment in technology startups last year.
The report, co... Read more
Attio raises €6.87 in funding round for data-driven CRM solution
Attio, a data-driven CRM platform for modern teams raised €6.87 in seed funding to bring customer relationship management into the same agenda as that of modern businesses and enable build-your-own work tools.
The funding round saw Point Nine Capital lead with participation from Headline and B... Read more
Co-founder WikiLeaks Julian Assange arrested after seven years in London
Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, was arrested in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Assange spent the past seven years there, after being accused of sexual violence in Sweden. That's what The Guardian says.
Assange ended up in the embassy in London in 2012, when he was free on bail in the Uni... Read more