My favourite tech stories from the last 24 hours
lawrenceweber
(Partner Curve, Director Innovation Social, #BIMA Exec member. Tweets on #tech, #advertising, #innovation, #startups
Since the turn of the year, there's been a raging debate as to why social media stars have been allowed to travel to luxury destinations when everyone else is told to stay at home during the deadliest pandemic in modern history. First in the firing…
In April 2019, Facebook was preparing to ban one of the internet's most notorious spreaders of misinformation and hate, Infowars founder Alex Jones. Then CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally intervened. Jones had gained infamy for claiming that the 2012…
Rishi Sunak will reportedly unveil a new UK visa scheme to help London's fintech firms attract more global talent in the wake of Brexit. The new visa fast track scheme will give priority access to professionals in the tech industry to live and work…
Image Credits: TransferWise / Wise “Ten years in, TransferWise is now Wise,” screams the press release that landed in my in-box late last week. The fintech giant, most recently valued by private investors at $5 billion, is re-branding…
The Sunday Times
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Jill Treanor
– Feb 20, 10:00 AM
A Treasury-commissioned review is to set out a five-pronged strategy for a “big bang” in the financial technology sector that could create thousands of jobs. The report by Ron Kalifa, former boss of payments processor Worldpay…
