Tag: Tech City
Unsympathetic Shoreditch “Tech City” workers campaign against “colonisation”
For the longest time, Shoreditch - the part of London just north of the City financial district - was run down and underdeveloped. It was perhaps one of the few places in central London that normal, working class people, might live. But then in the 1990s and continuing through the first decade of this millennium…
Tech Cafe coming to Tech City, London, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal: Seminars with Facebook and Google planned
The Wall Street Journal is to turn The Book Club in London's Shoreditch into a "Tech Cafe" between September 12 and September 14, hosting seminars with leading companies including Facebook and Google. Led by the Journal's European technology editor Ben…