Aberdeen’s City Council to benefit from Gigabit City transformation
Aberdeen’s schools, libraries and other public buildings are set to receive in internet connectivity boost after Aberdeen City Council became the latest organisation to…
£700k investment to help meet £400m industrial biotechnology goal
Small businesses in Scotland are set to receive a significant boost as the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) announces over £700,000 of investment for…
Tech startup wins Scottish Enterprise grant
A Fife-based business women has won a Scottish Enterprise grant to help kick start her new business that has the potential to transform the…
Scotland’s Top Women in Digital to visit Berlin
Six of Scotland’s top professional women from leading and emerging digital companies are to visit the creative hubs of London and Berlin this month…
Appointedd secures international partnership with payment provider AEVI
Online booking software specialist, Appointedd has agreed a strategic partnership with AEVI, the provider of a global open ecosystem for payment transactions and marketplace…
Edinburgh Napier University gets £1m to help bridge the digital gap
Edinburgh Napier University has received a major funding boost that will see it pioneer two new apprenticeship programmes designed to help bridge the digital…
Scottish university tie-up with Chinese firm sees technology breakthrough
A commercial partnership between University of the West of Scotland (UWS) and Chinese technology firm, Wuxi Chigoo Interactive Technology, has resulted in a UWS…
Gaia-Wind produces 1000th wind turbine
Scottish small wind turbine manufacturer Gaia-Wind saw its 1000th turbines rolling off the production line since the company moved its operations from Denmark to…
Commsworld lights its first inter-city fibre marking major milestone
A Scottish independent firm has positioned itself shoulder to shoulder with industry tech giants by investing £1m+ in establishing its own pure fibre telecommunications…
Scottish health tech startup wins NHS contract
Edinburgh based health tech startup Care Sourcer has secured a contract with NHS England as the founding directors aim to disrupt a UK care market…
Cloud HR software supplier opens Glasgow office
Cloud HR software supplier Cezanne HR has opened a new Glasgow office.
Commenting on the reasons behind the opening of the new office, John Hixon,…
Maven leads £2.7m funding round for mobile ordering and payment business QikServe
Private equity house, Maven Capital Partners, has led a £2.7 million investment in QikServe Limited.
Edinburgh based QikServe has developed a patented B2B cloud-based platform…
‘Big energy ideas’ sought from Scotland’s brightest businesses and entrepreneurs
Scotland’s brightest businesses and entrepreneurs have one week left to enter a unique accelerator programme, which could provide them with the funding and support…
£220k grant set to help Scottish IT company speed up growth
A Scottish IT firm has been awarded a £220k grant to create 24 jobs over the next 18 months.
Odro Ltd, which has been helped…
DataFest17 attracts two more top speakers for week long science festival
Two more high profile speakers have been confirmed for DataFest17, the week-long data science festival to be held in Edinburgh.
Hilary Mason, former chief…
Senshi Digital success with Italian jobs
Glasgow based digital design studio, Senshi Digital, has won contracts to build six new Italian tourism agency websites.
The international destination focused digital business recently…
Doubles win for Power Jacks after second Wimbledon contract win
North East based Power Jacks has secured another ace contract, supporting the installation of a second retractable roof at Wimbledon, the home of tennis.
The…
Interview: Gavin Henry – A man destined to succeed
SureVoIP’s Managing Director Gavin Henry is over the moon about last year’s ITSPA award win for Best Business ITSP (medium enterprise), an accolade that…
Interview: The Scottish Lawyer who became a Digital Entrepreneur
Ruairidh Wynne-McHardy admits that being a qualified lawyer who is also a self-taught programmer is a strange mix but the two skills combined perfectly…
Can cloud technology help Scottish businesses go global?
By Diane Holden, Xero Regional Account Manager
Scotland is home to a wealth of small businesses across a multitude of industries, and some of these…
MindGenius launches new software product
East Kilbride based software company, MindGenius has launch a new software product called Barvas.
Barvas utilises MindMapping techniques combined with Kanban principles to offer a…
Doosan Babcock to deliver UK’s largest fuel cell installation in Aberdeen
UK energy engineering specialist Doosan Babcock is to supply the new Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) with the largest fuel cell installation in…
Stirling becomes Scotland’s Fourth Gigabit City
Stirling is set to become Scotland’s fourth Gigabit City after Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Fibre infrastructure provider, CityFibre will work in partnership with leading specialist…
Inverness business community invited to #hellodigital EXTRA 2017
Expert advice on digital marketing, short film making for the web, and the UK’s first Dr of Social Media are all to feature in…
£1m support for three innovation projects
Three pilot projects will receive a total of £1 million to drive forward new approaches to innovation.
Toshiba Medical Visualisations Systems, Highlands and Islands Enterprise…
IT solutions provider presses ahead with Scotland expansion plans
Multi-platform IT solutions provider Opal has expanded its presence in Scotland after striking a deal with the country’s oldest independent boarding and day prep…
£3m investment for ten wave energy projects
Ten wave energy development projects have been awarded a total of £3 million by Wave Energy Scotland.
The projects, devised by individual companies and partnerships,…
Scottish tech start-up secures Dragons’ Den deal
Scottish tech start-up Connect-In has secured a £100,000 investment from technology entrepreneur and original Dragon, Peter Jones to help fund the expansion of its…
Global growth plans for CCL Components after new launch
After a decade of consistent growth, Glasgow-based CCL Components, one of the UK’s largest distributors of renewable energy systems, plans to go global with…
£6.5m agreed for Orkney research and innovation campus
Plans for a multi-million pound research and innovation campus in Stromness in Orkney are set to go ahead after the two organisations behind the…
Year of success for digital skills academy and Eureka Solutions’ CodeClan graduate
As Scotland’s new digital skills academy celebrates its first anniversary, one of its earliest graduates is also marking a year of success with award-winning…
31% Rise in Patent Applications from Aberdeen
European Patent Applications published in 2016 from Aberdeen applicants have risen 31% in the last year.
A total of 71 European Patent Applications were published…
Continued growth for ‘Match-making’ recruitment app
An app-based recruitment solution which matches job-seekers to employers by mobile phone in the style of a digital matching service continues to add new…
£500,000 boost for loyalty app provider to create 45 Glasgow jobs
Glasgow based Swipii, has secured a half a million pound Regional Selective Assistance grant from Scottish Enterprise, allowing it to expand its operations.
The company…
Legal-tech software startup wins £75k in Scottish EDGE final
Edinburgh based legal-tech software startup Amiqus won £75k in the recent Scottish EDGE final.
Backed by The Hunter Foundation, The Royal Bank of Scotland and…
Successful end to 2016 for intelligentpos
Scottish tech business, intelligentpos, marked Christmas 2016 with a boost in sales that saw its electronic point of sale software taken up by Michelin…
New IoT product to fuel growth at Scottish SME
A Lanarkshire-based fuel management company has launched a unique, Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled vehicle identification system, which helps fleet operators track a range of…
Silver anniversary for Clark Integrated Technologies
2016 has been a good year for Clark Integrated Technologies as the company celebrates its 25th anniversary.
The firm was joined by clients from all…
Software developers with business smarts to be in high demand in 2017
Talented web and mobile software developers will be highly sought after in 2017 as the Scottish tech industry continues its growth spurt.
Gordon Kaye and…
Teen pitching challenge sees student finance app success
An app created to assist students with their personal finances has scooped first place at an innovative pitching competition designed to challenge Glasgow teenagers…