Entrepreneur and Virgin founder Richard Branson has declared that London is growing in terms of great ideas, investors and working spaces for the technology sector on the day that the maiden London Technology Week kicked off.
Mike Lynch, the founder of one of the UK's most successful technology companies, Autonomy, is set for a £568 million payday after Hewlett-Packard agreed to acquire the business for £7.1 billion.
The British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) has rejected claims that a second dot com bubble is developing, saying '2011 may be many things but 2001 Mark II it is not'.
Bursting out of the cinema screens and into our homes, 3D technology is set to make its televisual debut, with several manufacturers poised to release 3D-ready sets this year.
UK engineering and technology companies have repeatedly proved their excellence across a range of industries, so imagine what they could achieve if they had the right kind of backing. Marc Barber reports
