Opinion

In Formula 1, optimizing team performance based on data is crucial to getting ahead. Engineers continuously refine the balance of a car, pit crews strive to shave milliseconds from a pit-stop, drivers practice and prepare for every on-track decision and maneuver. It is the difference between winning and losing.

The same can be said for cybersecurity. Informed by a continual stream of...

Some early adopters have been there for years, a few hold outs are determined it will never happen, but most of us are aware that moving from the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) to Electric Vehicles (EVs) is now only a question of when to make the switch. Having just passed 10,000 miles of electric motoring myself, this is a personal perspective on what it can be like to join the charge....

Sometimes a simple statistic can knock you sideways. Take this one from the British Business Bank (BBB): When broken down by local authority area, three of the top five locations for equity investment into South West businesses are London boroughs.

In other words, venture capital funds, business angel networks and individuals based in Westminster, Islington and Camden invest...

Nikki Hawkes, co-founder of investment app Stratiphy , discusses the recently-closed crowdfunding campaign that saw her company raise more than £440,000 from 700 investors in 53 countries.

Stratiphy, which came through the South West’s SETsquared accelerator programme, lets users build trading strategies according to their risk appetite and sustainability criteria.

Why...