New European prospectus legislation and the 5thMoney laundering directive will help STOs. The European Union last year agreed on new prospectus regulationsthat will come in to force on 21/07/19, which will give clarity as to how much capital a company is able to raise when doing a securit...

The startup competition for deep tech scaleups: The EIT Digital Challenge 2019. Who will be Europe’s next tech giant? The question is asked by EIT Digital, a leading European digital innovation and entrepreneurial education organisation. Fast-growing startups are invited to appl...

Homes under the Hacker – 1,000,000s Risk Personal Data Being Stolen. New research has highlighted the ways in which criminals target people’s personal details. Some 17 per cent of people polled don’t believe fraudsters can hack into Wi-Fi routers in order to spy and ste...

Businesses tread water with ‘wait and see’ attitude to Brexit - Q1 2019 Business Monitor. InterTradeIreland’s latest All-island Business Monitor reveals a continuing pattern of businesses deferring decisions and stalling investments against the backdrop of Brexit. Only 11 per cent of busine...

Credit Unions roll out Nationwide ‘one-stop-shop’ home energy upgrade scheme. Thousands of credit union members throughout Ireland will have access to a new home improvement funding scheme from early May, as the Solution Centre, in conjunction with the SEAI and REIL, roll-out th...

Tech.eu and Stripe release “Life is Growth” report. Tech.eu and Stripe have released the “Life is Growth” report, analysing Growth-stage technology funding in Europe. This is the second report Tech.eu and Stripe release after “Seed the Future” (November...

One year on GDPR continues to disrupt customer engagement strategies - Techconnect Live 2019. Software development company Dataconversion, which has evolved with the constantly changing technological landscape for over 45 years, says that companies are starting to see the value of implementing ...

Can Blockchain Help Ease BREXIT? It’s ugly. It’s comical. It’s tragic. UK’s departure from the European Union has at some point of time, been described as one or all of the above. This separation truly has captured the world’s att...

Why large businesses struggle with innovation – insights from Samsung. By Eric Schaeffer and David Sovie who are Senior Managing Directors at Accenture. Digital technology is highly disruptive, yet simultaneously the biggest opportunity to reposition product-making compan...

NOAH Conference Berlin returns 13 and 14 June 2019. The NOAH Conference, the leading industry event of the European digital economy, is inviting established companies, startups and investors to the German capital. For this year the conference has not on...