Newcastle City Council and Invest Newcastle (a service delivered by NewcastleGateshead Initiative on behalf of Newcastle to attract and secure new investment and jobs for the city), have developed a strategy which will support and boost the tech and digital sector in Newcastle. The strategy follows a recent report by Auxin, a multi-disciplined business support […]

Digital entrepreneurs and tech-innovators are being invited to pitch their ideas in a Dragon’s Den-style contest ahead of the creation of one of the region’s largest employment parks. South Tyneside Council is staging the Tech Challenge 2017 competition to encourage people and businesses to come up with digital solutions for the manufacturing sector ahead of […]

County Durham radiation detection technology firm Kromek has announced its plans to raise £21m through a share placing, which will allow the company to strengthen its balance sheet. The Sedgefield-based business, which focuses on developing tech that can be used in the medical, security and nuclear markets. The share sale – consisting of a firm […]

Increasing the digital skills of Teesside’s workforce and businesses is the best way to improve the local economy, says Teesside University. As the Prime Minister Theresa May announced her Government’s industrial strategy, the university has published its blueprint for the local economy. The five-point plan aims to support targets to increase start-ups by 25% and […]

Faradion, a low-cost battery material developer, has raised £1.3m in Series B funding from high growth technology investment firm Mercia Technologies. The investment is part of a syndicated round of up to £3.2m alongside existing shareholders, including Finance Yorkshire Seedcorn Fund and Haldor Topsoe A/D. Warwickshire-based Mercia Technologies acquired Enterprise Ventures back in March 2016, and […]

Plans for a £60m expansion of the Citylabs campus have been submitted and if approved – the development is expected to boost Manchester’s economy by £100m bringing 750 jobs to the region by 2020. The new development is being proposed by Manchester Science Partnerships in a joint venture with Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation […]

Manchester has become a top 20 European digital city according to a recent report which looks at how well different cities support digital entrepreneurship. The latest European Digital City Index 2016, independently compiled by Nesta, the UK Innovation Foundation, ranked Manchester in 16th place out of 60 cities for young digital companies and start-ups. This […]

The Landing, MediaCityUK’s tech and enterprise hub, has announced more details of its new pay-as-you-go (PAYG) co-working space called Launch.  Situated on the 6th floor, Launch offers tech businesses a mix of co-working space together with access to a range of hi-tech testing labs, maker and prototyping workshops and development studios. Companies who sign-up for one of Launch’s flexible […]

A South-Yorkshire-based IT Director, whose pioneering work on an anti-fraud technology system, dubbed “the future of telephone transactions” has been admitted as a professional member of the British Computer Society (MBCS). Awarded by peers of the Chartered Institute of IT, Steve Briggs currently works as IT Director at Rotherham-based Gala Tent, Europe’s largest distributer of […]

Lancashire’s Edge Hill University is on course to unveil he UK’s first super immersive 3D virtual environment as part of its new £13m Technology Hub. The four screen CAVE (cave automatic virtual environment) will offer both students and businesses the chance to fully immerse themselves in a virtual room. Using real data, users will be able […]

DueCourse, a cloud-based invoice financing service for SMEs, has received £6.25m in angel funding. The total investment includes £1.25m equity funding, and £5m of debt for lending to UK SMEs. Based in Manchester, the firm’s new backers include the founders and investors of Zoopla, LoveFilm, TransferWise and LinkedIn. DueCourse’s free software launched in 2015, and is aimed […]

Professional services giant Deloitte is planning to bring its lobal training initiative the Startup Leadership Program to Manchester. The programme offers support to start-up CEOs in Manchester and the North. Deloitte will provide a venue for training and events over six months while Deloitte representatives may help shape the SLP curriculum and content of the […]

A mobile payment technology company, a marketing software developer and a technology business are the only three North East companies to be named on the latest Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100. The annual league table, which is in its 16th edition, ranks Britain’s private technology, media and telecoms companies with the fastest-growing sales. Four […]

Digital Lancashire has launced to support technology companies within the region, and “accelerate the digital economy in Lancashire.” Supported by Lancashire County Council, membership fees will help the organisation to focus on skills, training, awareness of the tech sector and improving best practice. Membership is, however, free for the first 100 companies and individuals that sign up. Digital Lancashire is headed up by Managing […]

Law firm Ward Hadaway has teamed up with Tech North, an organisation set up to champion the digital sector in the North of England, to help identify the best international talent capable of boosting the regional sector. The Top 100 UK law firm, which has offices in Newcastle, Leeds and Manchester, is working with Tech North […]