Generation UK announce new digital opportunities for young people
Generation uk launches digital employment opportunities in birmingham, manchester, london & leeds to combat youth unemployment.
Tech, IT & Comms
Digitalisation is impacting businesses and it’s here to stay
Companies are starting to make the transition online to support an ease of day to day operations running and streamlining management. New technology allows companies of all sizes to become more stategic and efficient in their businesses. It is now the time to start capitilising on the benefits of digitisation.
What are the biggest threats to your business?
As the world limps on and businesses in the UK contend with the challenges of another period of lockdown, B4 members representing the Business Services, IT & Communications Hub marked Data Protection Day on Thursday 28th January 2021 by discussing what the major threats were to their businesses. With thanks to Darren Aston (Aston & James), Neill Lawson-Smith (CIS Ltd), Paul Ballinger (STL Communications), Salim Benadel (Storm Internet) and Kellie Peters (Databasix).
A New Practical Guide to IT Law Released, Co-Authored by Andrew...
Renowned Technology Lawyer, expert speaker and author, Andrew Katz has co-authored the newly published book – A Practical Guide to IT Law, alongside his colleagues in the Technology Team at Moorcrofts.
Andrew Katz named as top 100 influencer in Open Hardware in...
Moorcroft’s Joint Managing Partner and Head of Technology, Andrew Katz has been named on OpenUK’s Inaugural New Year’s Honours List for his contribution to Open Hardware.
Moorcrofts LLP advises Skillweb.co.uk Ltd. on the sale of its Houndit...
Moorcrofts’ corporate team has advised Skillweb.co.uk Ltd. (Skillweb), a leading UK based software development and solutions company, on the sale of its “Houndit” business to Escher Software Services UK Limited (part of Hanover Investors private equity group).
Tech in the year ahead
Predicting the future of technology is hard enough in a normal year. Where the pace of development and innovation continues unabated, seemingly limited only by our human imagination. Although in the world of Artificial Intelligence, that barrier may soon be broken as we hear about AI capable of writing new Beetles tracks. I’m not sure how I feel about that…
Introducing Astroscale
Join B4 in learning about Astroscale, a fascinating and innovative business addressing the issue of space debris and supporting the sustainable utilisation of space.
Orcro Launches OpenChain Certification
Orcro Limited becomes the UK’s first accredited provider of ISO/IEC 5230:2020 compliance certifications.
Business Services & Tech Day
It’s Business Services & Tech Day at B4. So we’re highlighting some recent and not so recent articles and press releases posted by B4 members over the past year or so.
Social IS Business
At the beginning of 2020 Databasix hosted a webinar wherein we discussed the data protection challenges for the year ahead. At no point during the preparation or delivery of the webinar did I talk about working through a global pandemic.
Oxford Brookes University cancer diagnostics spinout firm, MetaGuideX Ltd, wins business...
MetaGuideX, an innovative cancer diagnostics company established as a spin-out business from Oxford Brookes University, has won the 2020 Oxford Academic Health Science Network’s Accelerator programme.
Storm Internet wins Best Hosted Provider at 22nd ISPA Awards
Storm Internet has won the award for Best Hosted Provider at the 2020 Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA) Awards. It is the 8th win for the Oxfordshire-based host since 2013, in what has become one of the UK’s most competitive events for internet service providers.
Oxfordshire-based Apprentice picks up two Engineering Trust Awards
Two prestigious Engineering Trust training awards have been won by an apprentice at Oxfordshire-based Owen Mumford, a global industry leader in advanced medical device design and manufacturing.
Unipart builds new Panel Lifter technology in Coventry
Unipart Rail and Unipart Manufacturing Group have successfully built their first McCulloch Rail Panel Lifter at a new production facility in Coventry, bringing cutting-edge rail industry technology to the city.