Blog

We are pleased to announce that we have placed 57th in this year’s Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100. This is our first endeavour in to this award and we are extremely proud of this remarkable achievement and all of our staff. Published annually since 1997, The Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100 league table ranks Britain’s 100 private companies with the f...

The leading global company Chiquita Brands International have partnered with the popular audio and visual recognition app Shazam in a bid to create immersive experiences for their consumers by printing small codes on their product packaging. Since mid-July, the iconic blue sticker on Chiquita’s products (the symbol for high-quality fruit and produce) can be scanned using Sha...

Following the recent exit of co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Facebook has named Adam Mosseri as the new boss of Instagram. Mosseri joined Facebook in 2008 after briefly working at a startup called TokBox. He was tasked with helping Facebook embrace mobile as design director. Mosseri later moved into Product Management and oversaw Facebook’s news feed, turning it ...

During the auction at Sotheby’s in London, the painting by Banksy shredded itself moments after it was sold for 1.04m. The mysterious and highly celebrated street artist and political activist had ensured that the painting would ‘self-destruct’ by shredding itself through a mechanism hidden in the bottom of the frame. Andrew Bloch, founder and managing partner of London Comm...

At the launch of its new office space in Singapore at Marina One, Facebook has officially announced Startup Station Singapore, which is a new project in partnership with Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). This is Facebook’s second data innovation start-up programme globally, after a similar initiative in Paris, France called ‘Startup Garage’. “Asia Pacific is incre...

East Midlands Trains (EMT) are currently piloting a new personalised disruption messaging service that will provide customers with real time updates and notifications about their journey. The new service designed by Zipabout, is an attempt to drastically transform the experience of rail journeys by meeting customer demand with supply. The communications technology delivers p...

Harvey Nichols The retailer Harvey Nichols has rebranded to ‘Holly Nichols’ for the whole of September as a way to kick off its campaign ‘Let’s hear it for the girls’ in order to celebrate women and to highlight the company’s commitment to championing female equality. The illuminated store sign has been replaced with the new temporary brand name along with the change of the ...

First released in 2008 (as a beta), Google Chrome has now celebrated a decade of being an internet browser of choice. Chrome rolls out updates and changes every six weeks to provide users with new features and security updates. In honour of the 10-year anniversary, Google is rolling out a bigger than normal update - a handful of new and unique features and a revamped design....

Founded in London in 1971, the British multinational coffee shop chain was bought for £19m in 1995 by Whitbread. Since then it has become the second largest coffeehouse chain in the world and the largest in the UK with more than 2,400 shops and 1,400 outlets across 31 overseas markets. Coca Cola have recently acquired Costa Limited from the parent company Whitbread PLC for £...

Just a few years ago, the term “Data Scientist” encompassed everything from statisticians to Software Engineers. As the field has evolved so has the definition and the hiring process of a Data Scientist. At Xcede we often speak to clients about how they can retain their Data Scientists and keep their position at the forefront of innovation. Our Data Science Collective Roundt...