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Atom Bank Gets £30 Million from the Government as Philip Hammond Pledges Investment Boost

LONDON — Startup bank Atom has received a £30 million funding boost from the state-owned British Business Bank (BBB). British Business Bank Investments, the commercial arm of the BBB, announced it has agreed a £30 million Tier 2 capital facility with...

CarFinance 247 to Move 420-strong Team Into Manchester’s Universal Square

Online motor finance firm CarFinance 247 is relocating its HQ to Universal Square in Manchester. The company plans to move its 420-strong workforce to a 40,000 sq ft office at the scheme this August. Manchester property and investment company MCR Property Group,...

What Does Having an ‘80% Engaged Workforce’ Even Mean?

The declaration of the percentage of ‘engaged employees’ an organisation has, has always seemed like a fairly abstract concept. What does it mean? How are behaviours and emotions measured as a percentage? I can’t say I’ve ever defined how I...

‘Love At First Sight’: The Bizarre Story of How Amazon’s Deal for Whole Foods Went Down

Amazon shocked the world last week when it announced a $13.7 billion deal to buy organic-grocer Whole Foods — a warning shot that officially put competing grocers on notice and sent their shares tumbling. In a town hall meeting the day the deal...

Facebook Teaches Bots How to Negotiate. They Learn to Lie Instead

The chatbots came up with their own original and effective responses – including deceptive tactics Facebook’s 100,000-strong bot empire is booming – but it has a problem. Each bot is designed to offer a different service through the Messenger app: it...

Google Launches Exclusive Play Music Feature for Galaxy S8

Samsung Galaxy S8 owners who are enjoying Google’s Play Music streaming service may have noticed a new feature rolling out to the app recently, called New Release Radio. At the moment, this appears to be an exclusive feature within the...

INTRODUCING THE 101 RISING STARS OF UK TECH SCENE

Welcome to BusinessCloud’s inaugural list of the country’s most promising tech start-ups. Last week we brought you the hottest disrupters, companies already using tech to shake up traditional industries. You can view that full list here. And today it is the turn...

Amazon Just Spent $13.7 Billion to Prove Once Again That It’s the Most Dangerous Company in Tech

It’s no secret by now that Amazon, the so-called “everything store,” has zero hesitations or compunctions about entering a new market and completely upending it. Amazon did it with books. Amazon Web Services did it with the IT department. Now, with its...

7 Ways Modern Knowledge Management Performs Customer Experience Miracles

An old proverb “knowledge is power,” was initially derived from a closely related Latin aphorism first used in a work by Sir Frances Bacon then later published verbatim as scientia potentia est, by his secretary Thomas Hobbes in his original...

A New Amazon Patent Stops You From Checking Prices Online While You Shop in a Physical Store

Amazon has been granted a patent designed to stop you from visiting a shop to buy something but then looking for a cheaper version online while you’re there. The patent, which we first saw via The Verge, would essentially try and intercept you if you made...