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Welcome to the February issue of the Europe edition of Business Chief! On the cover of this month’s edition is Liberty Global. The telecommunications firm and parent company of Virgin Media and Telenet is introducing new technologies such as AI as part of its digital transformation journey. Vice President of Consumer Solutions and Digital Transformation, Duncan Macdonald, reveals ...
Building on the growing success of Gothenburg's ElectriCity project, an all-electric ferry service is to be added to the City's existing electric bus service it was announced today. The electric marine propulsion system is being provided by Volvo Penta. The company is joining the project following the success of the City of Gothenburg’s collaboration with Volvo Buses the the El...
EV infrastructure company Connected Kerb announced the launch of its first kerbside electric vehicle charger in Borough Road, Southwark today. This launch follows the company's success in the Mayor of London's Award for Urban Innovation last year. Since then, Connected Kerb has been collaborating with Southwark Council, Virgin Media and the National Grid in order to expand the number o...
Richard Hayes is the CEO of Mojo Mortgages , a mortgages broker located in England. Here, Hayes shares with us his opinion on the shift in marketplace banking, and how this will impact 2019. Innovation in the financial services sector has been forcing traditional players to adapt for the better part of the last decade. Marketplace banking is one of the latest solutions, b...
Recruitment startup Shine has announced this week the acquisition of US$456,000 in financing from the North East Venture Fund, which will be managed by Mercia Fund Managers. Based in Sunderland, Shine was founded in 2016 by David Copple and is the developer of a video-based recruitment platform. The platform aims to remove the logistical and financial constraints on in-person interviewi...
IDnow, a leading provider of video identification and eSigning across Europe and nominee of the 2018 FinTech 50 list of Europe’s most promising European startups, has announced the opening of its new office in Paris There is a rapidly growing demand for online identification solutions, particularly amongst young online banks that are aggressively expanding market share in tandem w...
Beauty product specialist Avon has announced the appointment of a new VP of Digital Development, Nick Burton, who will accelerate the firm’s digital transformation efforts With the role being focused on optimisation of business processes and growth of the brand and sales through digitally disruptive technologies, Avon will leverage Burton’s 20-year experience in IT strategy ...
The German government announced this week plans to invest US$568mn in the creation of a research facility to improve German firms’ attempts at developing battery cells for electric vehicles, Channel News Asia reports. German Education and Research minister Anja Karliczek announced the pledge on Wednesday, outlining plans to use the new facility to transfer information concerning ...
Swiss chemicals firm Clariant has signed a joint biofuel research agreement with American gas and oil titan ExxonMobil, and the Renewable Energy Group (REG) Clariant specialises in providing integrated technologies and solutions for the conversion of agricultural waste into fuel, with its high-yield sunliquid process using no chemicals in the process. The agreement will see joint evalu...
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg announced this week that, in 2019, the company plans to add 1,000 new jobs in Dublin, along with investing large sums in Irish companies, according to a report by Silicon Republic. The new injection of jobs, which will be filled over the course of 2019, brings Facebook’s total number of employees in the city to 5,000. Outside of Cal...
German multinational software firm SAP SE has announced the launch of the SAP.iO No Boundaries initiative, which seeks to invest in entrepreneurs from underrepresented groups. In its 21 January press release, SAP said it is committing 40% of the investable capital from the SAP.iO fund to the programme which is focused on funding and incubating firms led by women and people from ethnic minoriti...
David Mills, CEO of industry-leading document management solutions and services provider Ricoh Europe shares his thoughts on the state of the market for SMB's. This is a particularly tough time for Europe’s SMBs. Regulatory requirements and economic shifts are fundamentally changing markets. Meanwhile, rapid advancements in technology and innovation are transforming cust...
Antoine Baschiera, CEO and co-founder at Early Metrics gives Business Chief his thoughts on the possible effects of Brexit on the global fintech market. London is the indisputable capital of financial innovation in Europe. It’s the leading city for digital financial services, thanks to high levels of internet connectivity, and has the most mature Fintech market in terms of n...
Rob Shaw, CEO of Jaywing, a data science-led UK agency, specialising in the fields of marketing, customer management and credit and fraud risk regulation and management, shares his thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence in 2019. For me, 2018 was always going to be the year that saw much more happening in the adoption of artificial intelligence. So, as I s...
Stockholm-headquartered lock and security solutions company Assa Abloy announced this week plans to acquire KEYper Systems, an electronic and mechanical key management systems firm located in Harrisburg, North Carolina. KEYper Systems, which specialises in providing products and services to the automotive construction industry. "I am very pleased to welcome KEYper Systems into the ...
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