Category: Industry News

A Scottish specialist in lone worker protection has launched a new tool to help get people back to work safely as non-essential businesses emerge from lockdown. Safe Shores Monitoring has developed Safe Trace, a contact tracing and visitor management tool

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James Longcroft, John Ross and Sean Rollo are using their own personal wealth to establish Invest Scotland, aimed at “transforming Scottish businesses into game-changing global brands,” and helping those that would struggle to get bank funding. Funding of up to

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The Granite City hosts a variety of interesting startups and is rapidly becoming a hub for tech innovation. While Aberdeen is famous for being the hub for Britain’s oil and gas sector, the city is now redefining itself as a

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Five ‘technology hubs’ will be set up with a £4m fund to support Scottish tech start-ups, the Scottish Government has announced. Finance Secretary Kate Forbes announced the “initial funding” as a response to the sector review report authored by entrepreneur

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Report on expanding technology sector. Finance Secretary Kate Forbes has welcomed recommendations for developing a world-class technology sector in Scotland. Recognising the sector’s potential for innovation and high growth, a report from entrepreneur Mark Logan outlines ways of creating more

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The first satellite launch site proposed for Scotland has been given planning permission. Highlands and Islands Enterprise wants to build the Sutherland Space Hub on peatland near Tongue. Other locations in Scotland have been proposed for the launches of small

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Developers behind proposals for a “tech city” next to Edinburgh Airport which could bring 6,600 jobs to the Capital have vowed the project will go ahead despite the coronavirus pandemic. Plans for the major housing and commercial development on the

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Paul Coffey arrived as the new CEO of The Scotland 5G Centre in May, but his experience in the telecoms industry goes back 25 years. Among the first intake of graduates at Orange back in 1995, he spent nearly 20

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