Tech City focus Social networkers connect with Tech City
Yammer Inc, a leading enterprise social network, is to locate its HQ in East London’s Tech City at a site on City Road and double the number of staff at its London offi ce by the end of the year. The location will provide a central sales and client service hub for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Yammer combines social networking and workspace collaboration to create an enterprise social network connecting employees in companies of every size. Workers can sign up on
yammer.com to connect with colleagues, fi nd answers to questions, brainstorm and share ideas, documents and videos in real time. Yammer archives conversation
threads, making them searchable so that
employees can access the information months or even years later. Yammer has more than two million users and over 40 per cent of traffi c comes from users in EMEA, including employees of Capgemini, O2 and Vodacom. To date, Yammer has secured US$40m in venture capital funding and more than 80 per cent of Fortune 500 companies are customers.
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BOB SCHUKAI named as Tech City ambassador The global head of mobile technology at Thomson Reuters, Bob Schukai, has been appointed as Tech City’s ambassador to New York. In his role, Schukai will promote Tech City and the business and investment opportunities in the area to the technology and investment communities
in New York and the broader eastern US region. He said: “More than any other city in the world, London has the opportunity to take a leadership position in the digital creative industries. It has a heritage in design, creativity, fashion, fi lm and innovations that no other
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OONAGH BLACKMAN
WRITER AND BROADCASTER
city can match. Tech City provides a platform to support the successful renaissance that is already underway in the Shoreditch area, and I’m eager to champion efforts that infuse technology, investment and talent to help up-and-coming start-ups and revitalise East London.”
By the numbers: food and drink THE UK’S
FOOD AND NON- ALCOHOLIC DRINK
exports grew 11.4 per cent in 2010 to £10.83bn
£1.32bn Source: Food and Drink Federation springboard | 09
Fish and seafood exports grew 13.8 per cent to almost
Food and non-alcoholic drink exports to FINLAND rose 62 per cent, with a 225 per cent increase in cane/beat sugar
After a long wait for many in the local community, steel manufacturing is returning to the mothballed Corus plant thanks to a shot of inward investment from Thailand. Shaviriya Steel Industries is creating up to 1,000 new jobs at the Redcar site in readiness for the resumption of steel-making there. The importance of retaining and nurturing home-based technical skills cannot be under- estimated when it comes to pulling in overseas investment. Eastern orders for aircraft and aircraft parts from Airbus and Rolls-Royce plants in the UK are similarly welcome. And potential ‘green’ industry growth has prompted Siemens to invest in an £80m wind turbine factory at the Alexander Dock on Humberside, which could generate thousands of jobs. Even in a volatile and competitive global economy, British workmanship is attracting FDI, contributing to growth and putting the heart into our communities.
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