Tag Archives: Croydon Tech City

£150 – price of ‘scrutiny’ at council-backed Tech City ‘summit’

Kit Malthouse, Boris Johnson’s unelected Deputy Mayor of London and a failed candidate to become Conservative MP for Croydon South, is to open a Croydon Tech City “summit” next month, but which the public may attend only if they first … Continue reading

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Airport House business takes off with its Feast Express

A tech start-up company based at Airport House on the Purley Way has launched a smartphone app that they claim will “revolutionise” the way we order our takeaways and book restaurant tables. Mathew Gomes, the co-founder of Feast Express, said, … Continue reading

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Council snubs local tech companies over smart phone app

The contract for Croydon Council’s latest innovation, the My Croydon smart phone app, was never put out to competitive tender. Instead, the deal – estimated to be worth a low five-figure sum – was awarded to a company which did … Continue reading

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