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December 5, 2012
Nimbus Ninety Converge 2013

Leveraging colliding technology, business and cultural trends to establish a competitive advantage in your organisation

May 28, 2012
Government to launch Open Data Institute

The government is going to open a centre to help businesses reap the benefits of open data.

The government has announced plans to create an Open Data Institute (ODI) and has committed £10m over the next five years to help kick start the project.
 
The ODI will be located in the heart the ‘Tech City’ or ‘Silicon Roundabout’ area near Shoreditch, east London. The Institute will be co-directed by founder of the World Wide Web Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the government advisor Professor Nigel Shadbolt.
 

May 28, 2012
Jason Titus, Shazam: Pitch perfect

For a decade now Shazam, the song identification mobile phone app, has been settling bets, discovering new artists and unearthing guilty pleasures for its users. With over a million and half new users each week, the company’s recent growth has been exponential and its big data analytics have opened a range of new possibilities for expansion. Dominic Pollard visited the company’s London headquarters (that’s right, Shazam is a UK company) to speak to its CTO Jason Titus to find out the magic behind the technology.

A magical experience


For those of you who are unfamiliar with Shazam, it’s a mobile app that allows the user to find out the artist and name of any song they hear. Within just a few seconds, that nagging question of ‘oh, what is this song?’ can be answered with one click of a button. As CTO Jason Titus says, “Shazam is like a unique, magical experience.”

May 11, 2012
Geoff Wagstaff, CTO, GoSquared

As CTO of one of Britain’s hottest up-and-coming web analytics companies at the age of just 20, Geoff Wagstaff has certainly been thrown in at the deep end. He speaks to Dominic Pollard about how he and the young team masterminding GoSquared’s rise to prominence go about sourcing, implementing and delivering a host of cutting edge technologies.

Going Square

When it comes to working for a start-up, it would appear that there are those who love it and those who simply haven’t given it a go yet. The enthusiasm and passion emanating out of London’s thriving ‘Tech City’ or ‘Silicon Roundabout’ scene, an ever-expanding collection of tech companies based in the heart of the nation’s capital, becomes abundantly clear to anyone who experiences it firsthand. Geoff Wagstaff, the 20-year old chief technology officer (CTO) of GoSquared, is a prime example of that.

May 3, 2012
Using big data to spot outgoing employees

Keeping check of which of your employees are looking to leave has been an inexact science up until now. Enter big data analytics...

April 23, 2012
Toby Moore, Mind Candy: King of the Tech City start-ups

Toby Moore is the chief technology officer (CTO) at Mind Candy – the company that created and runs the global kids’ educational social gaming phenomenon Moshi Monsters. He gives Mark Young an insight into the unique, modern business ideologies that have propelled Mind Candy to unrivalled growth over the last nine years and discusses the firm’s adoption of big data and cloud.

Situated in the iconic Tea building in trendy Shoreditch, east London, Mind Candy is one of the poster boys of the flourishing Tech City development that has sprung up in the area.

April 3, 2012
Big data going for gold

An IDC expert explains how big data can be used in the Olympics.

The technology media title V3, in partnership with solutions provider Cisco, is examining the role technology will have in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games.

March 23, 2012
David Boyle, EMI & Zeebox - Data Driven (includes video)

David Boyle loves data. And, after holding senior insight positions in a wide range of different industries, he’s learnt a few things about the best way to use it. He talks to Mark Young about the importance of partnerships, scalable infrastructure and finding inspiration for data in unusual places. David is senior vice president of insight at EMI and director of insight at zeebox.

David Boyle CV