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US VS. EU Start-ups: Does Silicon Valley Hold All the Cards?
Start-up admiration and entrepreneurship are alive and well outside of Silicon Valley. Check out Berlin, London or Amsterdam and you’ll be met with a striking number of founders, start-up hoppers, and entrepreneurs. Silicon Valley does reign supreme, but the tides are continuing to turn outside of the California-bubble. In fact,

UK FinTech firm Hello Soda expands to USA
UK FinTech company Hello Soda has announced its expansion into the United States with the opening of a New York office and recruitment of two new heads of sales. Hello Soda is expanding its UK business overseas after experiencing huge demand for technology platform PROFILE which helps reduce fraud and

Google Reveals that Government Demands for User Data Has Risen by 250% Since 2009
With the increase in the usage of internet services, request for user information by Governments and courts has been steadily rising. In the wake of last weeks revelations about Yahoo’s secret legal battle with the US NSA, over customer data, latest is Google’s biannual Transparency Report which reveals the number

IBM: Using Big Data to Help Farmers
IBM announced on Thursday that it would be collaborating with The Flint River Partnership to deploy a data-driven method to increase “agricultural efficiency by up to 20 percent.” The goal of the partnership is to use big data tools to analyse large volumes of meteorological, geographical and historical data, which