The Enigma Weekly Roundup | 20th March 2015

Our favourite  pieces of technology business, and digital media news stories from the week gone by:

• Banks Are Helping Creative Startups Get Finance-Savvy – Chiefly backed by Santander, Barclays, HSBC, RBS, and Lloyds.

• Disco Dog Is Here – The App controlled LED dog vest.

• Species in Pieces – Incredible interactive exhibition of 30 of the worlds most endangered species using CSS Polygons.

• Why Tony Hawk Never Lets An Assistant Run His Social Media Accounts – Giving people the unfiltered version of his business.

• Tag Heuer Unveils Smartwatch Venture with Intel and Google – The partnership aims to bring to market the first luxury watch using Google’s Android operating system.

• Scotland’s Embedded Conference Returns in June – The one-day Developers’ Conference to take place in Uphall, on the 4th June 2015.

• How the UK’s Latest Budget Will Affect Tech in 2015 – Self driving cars, better broadband and video games prototype fund.

• Facebook Engineer Lured to White House for Job as Tech Director – becoming the latest Silicon Valley hire by President Barack Obama.

• Why Digital Marketers Need To Get Over Their Love Affair With The Internet – The world is connected. Whatever. Use it, but get over it.

• ‘Breathtaking’ Solar Eclipse Witnessed by Millions – In all parts of the UK the eclipse reached at least 83% and the darkness peaked at about 09:35 GMT.

• Businesses Advised to Ban Employee Phones and Memory Sticks – In a desperate measure to stem a flood of cyber-attacks.

• Windows 10 Launches This Summer – It will be a free upgrade for the bulk of users upgrading from Windows 7 or 8.1 users.

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