YPlan: Business which had £31m investment sold for £1.6m
Events discovery platform YPlan has been bought for £1.6m by Time Out Group, four years after it was founded and having seemingly spent £31m of venture capital investment.
INFOGRAPHIC: The midfield-market: Footballers’ business lives are scoring goals off the pitch
It’s not all trophies, sports cars, wild parties and famous girlfriends for soccer stars, as an infographic has detailed the entrepreneurial way that footballers’ business lives are scoring them goals off the field.
As incentivised reviews become the latest trend, authenticity needs to be a priority
Following a recent report analysing some 7m Amazon product reviews, which revealed extensive bias in incentivised reviews, the industry has come under pressure to re-evaluate the customer feedback process.
Outrageous rural broadband – and the need for protection against BT-style service failure
Real Business spoke with Hubert Da Costa, vice president EMEA at Cradlepoint, who unveiled the woes of rural broadband and the need for a better technology strategy after BT showed how easy it was to experience service failure.
The need to think global has never been more important – exporters haven’t had it this good for decades
On 11 October 2016, World First held its first inaugural Think Global event – aimed at burgeoning exporters and SMEs looking to grow business overseas.
The top ten skills UK businesses have recruited for in 2016
The most popular abilities Britain’s companies have looked for this year have been revealed by LinkedIn as the network listed the top ten skills recruited for in 2016.
Thriver or survivor: Digital transformation and its role in keeping your firm competitive
We are now well into a large scale tech refresh, driven by the move to digital business. The change is profound enough that IDC has divided the world’s top 2,000 companies into being either a “thriver or survivor” based on whether or not the firm has digital transformation at the heart of its corporate strategy.