Givey: The World’s Largest Donation Platform by 2014
A few weeks back, 9 new startups emerged from Ignite100, the UK’s first £1m accelerator programme. One of them was Givey, a platform not too dissimilar to JustGiving, except it…
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Emerald Valley: A Startup Hub for Northern Ireland?
The small city of Newry isn’t the kind of place you’d expect to find a thriving startup hub with a global profile, but that’s exactly what it could become if…
Roku Adds BBC iPlayer to UK Streaming Service
Roku, one of the US’s leading TV-streaming platforms, has confirmed that it’s adding BBC iPlayer to its UK media offering, one month after it made its players available in Europe…
Bantr Arrives on the Telegraph's Fantasy Football
We cover a lot of startups here at The Next Web, and regardless of how good you think an idea is at the time, you never really know for sure…
Phones4u Allows Phone Upgrades Every 6 Months
UK mobile retailer Phones4u has launched its new Just Update My Phone (JUMP) tariff for UK consumers that allows customers to potentially upgrade their handset every six months by splitting…
Man City Preparing Japanese Web Presence
English Premier League football club Manchester City looks set to expand its brand presence into Japan, having recruited a firm to build a local mobile website in the country, according…
UK Govt. Considers Blocking Copyright-Infriging Sites
No sooner was SOPA effectively defeated in the US, European authorities kicked up a storm by signing up to the controversial ACTA agreement, which is a voluntary agreement between nations…
Google Closes its £37m Buy, 'UK Compare Mortgages'
What do you do if you spend £37m ($61.5m) acquiring an Internet company only to then decide, well, it might not have been the best idea after all? If you’re…
Domino's UK Launches Windows Phone App
Popular worldwide pizza chain Domino’s has released a new smartphone app for Windows Phone users, adding to its wide portfolio of mobile applications including Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android platform…
Can you survive on social media alone? These 2 try.
Can man live on social media alone? A tough question, and one that we sought to answer last year with our fictional character Jack, a true social media geek. But…
Plans to Make it Easier to Switch Broadband Providers
One of the biggest headaches in moving house is the inherent lag-time between moving in and waiting for that broadband connection to get up and running. It’s perhaps a sad…
LoveFilm's CEO Jumps Ship for Mothercare
Online movie rental and streaming service LoveFilm has gone from strength to strength since it was launched in London way back in 2002, but its CEO Simon Calver has announced…
Stephen Fry: Judges Just Don't Get Twitter
Paul Chambers appeared in court today to appeal against his conviction for sending a joke tweet threatening to blow England’s Robin Hood Airport “Sky High”, if the airport remained closed…
The BBC is Experimenting with Perceptive Media
Remember when Intel turned your life into a museum exhibition using your Facebook data? Or when Google put your place of birth into Arcade Fire’s The Wilderness Downtown video? How…
UK Airport 'Bomb Joke' Tweeter Appeals Conviction
Two years ago, we reported on the story about a UK man who was arrested on terrorism charges after posting a joke tweet on Twitter. Travel chaos caused by heavy…
