UK tech sector gets £2.3 billion investment boost

As part of London Tech Week, 1,600 new jobs and billions of pounds of investment into the UK economy have been announced at an event hosted by Prime Minister Theresa May in Downing Street. Private sector funding comes from companies including Salesforce, which is investing £1.9bn in the UK over the next five years, this will include the opening of its second UK data center in 2019. Mubadala is launching a £300m European investment fund based in the UK, and NTT data is investing £41m to open a new office and Innovation Centre, creating up to 200 jobs over the… [Continue Reading]