Interviews with the world’s richest and most industrious entrepreneurs are few and far between. And those that really get under the skin of successful business leaders are particularly rare. So we’re excited to bring you the news of Lawrence Jones’s interview with Richard Branson – being published by EN the Magazine for Entrepreneurs on Friday. [...]

When business owners took stock of their successes and failures in 2010 and made plans for improvements in 2011, how many put a focus on data privacy at the top of their agenda? Amongst company streamlining, profit targets and recruitment issues, it’s a priority that can easily get lost in the day-to-day running of a [...]

The Digital Entrepreneur Awards last week were an eye opener. As part of the team at UKFast – the headline sponsor of this year’s awards – I knew that they aimed to reward the best online businesses for their entrepreneurial achievements. What I didn’t know is just how crucial a role “The Everyman” would play in the feats of those fast-growing businesses on the web.

Making uncensored information available remains firmly at the forefront of Wikileaks’ mission statement, despite the current troubles. And these are large scale troubles. The news has been flooded this week with allegations surrounding the website and its creator Julian Assange. Claiming to “keep governments open”, the site has released 250,000 cable messages between top US [...]

As main sponsors of the Digital Entrepreneur Awards 2010, everyone at UKFast was thrilled to see the event come together in such a spectacular and sparkling fashion on Wednesday night at the Palace Hotel in Manchester. London restaurant group Pied a Terre and Masabi – the software developer that closed a deal with trainline.com in [...]

Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes has launched a social network called Jumo and the word “social” describes it well. It is social in that it is a social network but it also aims to promote social good. If Jumo works, it could be a great step for Social Enterprise, as Chris Hughes has a undoubtably gained [...]

Nature or nurture is one of those debates that people often seem very passionate about. Personally, I don’t really think there is much of a debate. I think that whilst we are born with inherent characteristics that will facilitate or hinder the development of certain skills or attributes, we can achieve anything through hard and [...]

In the wake of the emergency Budget announcement, we have been looking at what it means for the technology and digital industry and for entrepreneurs. While green IT and the National Programme for IT took a back seat in George Osborne’s economic plans, the IT industry has emerged relatively unscathed from the coalition’s first budget. [...]