Tag Archives: Silicon Roundabout

In London Technology Week who better to ask about the future of Transport Ticketing than Ben Whitaker, CEO of Masabi!

17 June 2014
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: News

We believe that the main theme of the next 10 years of fare collection will be a move away from transit issued media like smartcards and magnetic paper stock, and instead make use of credentials or technology that the passenger …

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Your Seven Days in the World of Technology courtesy of the Wired.co.uk Podcast!

27 February 2014
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Interviews, News, Podcast

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk’s Olivia Solon, Liat Clark and Nicholas Tufnell. Once again Care.data is proving to be a hot mess. …

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Expanding to London from the USA can be a legal minefield. Part 2 of Richard Goold’s series asks ‘Subsidiary or Branch?’

24 January 2014
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Ask the Expert, Interviews, News

Typically when US corporations come to the UK they will set up either: –           a subsidiary (typically a private limited company, which will be a wholly owned legal entity of the US corporation); or –           a branch (which is a …

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Everything you need to know from the tech world over the past 7 days

16 January 2014
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: News, Podcast

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk’s Olivia Solon, Liat Clark and Katie Collins This week: Top stories 1) Sudanese volunteers are printing £60 limbs …

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London offers tremendous opportunities for a disruptive and game changing tech business expanding from the USA.

14 January 2014
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Ask the Expert, Interviews, News

However, English law can be minefield! Richard Goold (@gooldrichard), Corporate Partner and Co-Chair of the Tech team at Wragge and Co explains why. In this four part blog, I’m going to look at the following areas that US companies need …

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A 30 minute look at the most interesting tech stories from the last 7 days

9 January 2014
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: News, Podcast

Listen this week for an entertaining 30-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with Wired.co.uk’s Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon, Liat Clark and Katie Collins Top stories 1) Nick d’Aloisio announces Summly-inspired News …

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‘Is the increasing shift to a subscription based economy the end of ownership?’ We asked 6 leading entrepreneurs.

20 December 2013
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Ask the Expert, Interviews, News

Brian Bell in ‘The Wired World in 2014’ says “Younger consumers…have proven more comfortable with sharing toys, cars,movies and dresses, and are impatient with inefficient models of consumerism….instead of  purchasing physical media that may ultimately end up in a landfill,consumers …

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‘How critical is independence to success? We asked six leading entrepreneurs.’

24 September 2013
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Ask the Expert, Interviews, News, Startups

“I would suspect that (Skype) could have achieved more if it had been an independent company” said Danny Rimer, a partner at Index Ventures” in the Financial Times 29th August (Skype’s first decade reflects a trail of missed opportunity). We …

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‘What innovations will shape architecture in a decades time’ (Wired Magazine July 2013) We asked six of Silicon Roundabout’s leading architects what they thought?!

16 August 2013
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Ask the Expert, Interviews, News, Property

Chris Patience Partner at EllisMiller Architects Imagine cities enclosed by a super scale mega-structures smart enough to control light and heat, collect water, generate energy, and protect its inhabitants from an increasingly volatile climate. A little Stanley Kubrick perhaps, possible …

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London’s ‘Silicon Roundabout’ will soon benefit from Europe’s largest infrastructure project. Ian Lindsay of Crossrail explains more!

9 August 2013
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Government and Tech City, News, Property

Currently Europe’s largest infrastructure project, Crossrail is one of the most amazing, large and complex projects ever undertaken in the UK, delivering 118 km (73 miles) of new, modern railway linking Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west to Canary Wharf, …

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