London

Amazon’s new London center to focus on TV, film

25 July, 2012

Original post by Charlie Osborne via CNET The Web retail giant has chosen London as a new base for developing and expanding its on-demand television and film services. Online retail giant Amazon is to open an international design and development center in London. Amazon has rented an eight-story, 47,000-square-foot office situated near Barbican station. The new […]

TechMeetups ignites collaboration, creativity and connects Universities with Startups through its HTML5 Hackathon at City University

25 July, 2012

We’ve just finished our HTML5 & CloudHackathon which took place last weekend, 20-22 July in London and, wow, what a weekend it was! The three days were filled with inspirational ideas, lots of learning, plus plenty of nerves and emotions as teams raced to finish their HTML5 app prototypes by 4pm on Sunday. This time the […]

London Silicon Roundabout Weekly Newsletter 20 July 2012

20 July, 2012

London Silicon Roundabout Weekly Newsletter 20 July 2012

Here Are Our Favorite Companies From The Fourth 500 Startups Demo Day

20 July, 2012

Original post by RYAN LAWLER via TC Today in Mountain View, Calif., Dave McClure’s 500 Startups unveiled the latest class of companies to participate in its Accelerator program. This batch had startups addressing an incredibly wide variety of spaces — from kid’s computer games to necktie shopping, and beyond. Founding partner Dave McClure said during today’s program that with […]

London’s Summer Olympics will be big business

19 July, 2012

Original post by John Boudreau via Siliconvalley The London Summer Olympics have yet to start, but the windfall from the global economic sports behemoth has already been felt more than 5,000 miles away at La Pastaia restaurant in downtown San Jose, where tables filled up with hungry customers attending the recent U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials at […]