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Government backs SMEs with new Help to Grow campaign and Small Business Council

Government backs SMEs with new Help to Grow campaign and Small Business...

The UK government has reaffirmed its commitment to all the UK’s 5.5 million small businesses, with the creation of a new Small Business Council due to launch in March, which will bring together SME leaders from...

UK’s budding entrepreneurs stifled by cost of living crisis

UK’s budding entrepreneurs stifled by cost of living crisis

Nearly all (97%) of budding entrepreneurs across the UK feel that there are factors holding them back from starting a business, with the cost of living crisis heading up the list, referenced by nearly four out of ten...

More than 40 new success stories and 310 deals for Switzerland

More than 40 new success stories and 310 deals for Switzerland

Kickstart Innovation, one of the leading innovation platforms in Europe, selected 46 start-ups and intrapreneurship teams out of over 1,000 applications from 62 countries for its eighth Kickstart...

One in five UK small businesses could not report on any of their emissions if asked tomorrow

One in five UK small businesses could not report on any of their emissions if...

Despite a growing commitment to sustainability among small businesses, recent research by Novuna Business Finance reveals a significant gap in the number of businesses which would actually be able to report on their...

Brits would need to stay up for two days to read privacy policies of monthly websites

Brits would need to stay up for two days to read privacy policies of monthly...

Read it and sleep! Online terms and conditions are now so long and complicated it would take Brits over two days to get through the privacy policies of the websites they visit in a month, according to research by...

Personalised comparison site for business services launches to help small businesses grow

Personalised comparison site for business services launches to help small...

A first-of-its-kind business comparison site has launched to eliminate the confusion and stress experienced by small business owners when choosing services like broadband, insurance and energy tariffs. Beasy, created...

Driving innovation: how accelerator programmes are boosting the UK’s space industry 

Driving innovation: how accelerator programmes are boosting the UK’s space i...

The UK space sector is worth more than £16.4 billion per year and employs over 47,000 people. Entrepreneurial support from space accelerators plays an integral role in the industry’s growth. Mike Stephens,...

Simpler laws will open up more government procurement for small businesses

Simpler laws will open up more government procurement for small businesses

A Procurement Bill, which will simplify four sets of laws into one, has had its Second Reading in the House of Commons. The simpler, more flexible and less complicated rules will open up more government procurement...

A quarter of small business owners unable to pay bills in 2023 

A quarter of small business owners unable to pay bills in 2023 

Small businesses in the UK have had to cope with an onslaught of challenges throughout the last year and as a result, many do not have high hopes for the new year. A survey of 600 small business owners carried out by...

Fostering development for SMEs 

Fostering development for SMEs 

Aliaksandr Kuushynau, Head of Wialon, Gurtam, speaks to Intelligent SME.tech about Gurtam, some of the key challenges SMEs are facing and a recent implementation with RBR Betón, a fleet management company based...

UK government scheme urges SMEs to embrace ‘digital’ for business growth 

UK government scheme urges SMEs to embrace ‘digital’ for business gro...

Through its Help to Grow: Digital scheme, the UK government is providing businesses with free and impartial information and support to help them adopt new digital technologies. Here, Daniel Harrison, Head of SME...

Tech roles in UK surpass pre-pandemic levels 

Tech roles in UK surpass pre-pandemic levels 

The number of tech jobs in England and Wales reached record levels in 2021, with tech firms publishing more IT vacancies in the last year than all British businesses combined did in 2020, a new labour market...

StorageOS provides Civo with cloud-native storage to support its Kubernetes service

StorageOS provides Civo with cloud-native storage to support its Kubernetes...

UK-based, Civo, is a cloud-native service provider powered by Kubernetes. The company continues to grow, which means it needs a scalable operating platform and an accompanying storage vendor. It chose...

Loans2Go cements itself in the FinTech industry with the help of Node4

Loans2Go cements itself in the FinTech industry with the help of Node4

A database and IT infrastructure modernisation project helped Loans2Go move from a high street operation to an almost entirely online business. The personal loans company chose a suite of solutions from Node4 to...

Providing seamless connectivity for the UK’s first electric forecourts – a new era of sustainable energy

Providing seamless connectivity for the UK’s first electric forecourts – a new...

GRIDSERVE is a pioneer in the field of sustainable energy. Its current focus is the deployment of its pioneering electric forecourts across the UK’s road and motorways, providing electric vehicles with a safe,...

Forsters LLP chooses NetDocuments for document management

Forsters LLP chooses NetDocuments for document management

Forsters LLP, a leading UK law firm, deployed NetDocuments as part of its ambition to move more of its services to the cloud, enabling the organisation’s 400+ staff to securely access and work on documents from...

ICE Norway to deploy Amdocs solutions to help accelerate business progress and increase market share

ICE Norway to deploy Amdocs solutions to help accelerate business progress...

Amdocs, a leading provider of software and services to communications and media companies, has announced the signing of a multi-year agreement with ICE Norway for the deployment of Amdocs ActixOne and Amdocs...

Databricks delivers on Gousto growth plans with AI and analytics solutions

Databricks delivers on Gousto growth plans with AI and analytics solutions

Gousto, a leading UK-based meal kit retailer, has leveraged a Databricks data management and AI solution, enabling the company to become more customer-centric and agile in response to the pandemic; drive operational...

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