Tech City is positively buzzing at the moment. The startup hotspot is home to Silicon Roundabout, the UK’s much-mooted answer to Silicon Valley, and it seems there’s no shortage of news emanating from the East London area. UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) has announced the appointment ofBob Schukai, global head of mobile technology at Thomson Reuters, as the Tech City ambassador to New York. In his role as ambassador, Schukai will promote the business and investment opportunities in the area to the technology and investment communities in New York and the broader eastern US region....

“There is no delight in owning anything unshared.” -Seneca Shared services have become an important part of our lives. Be it the hordes of Parisians who ride to work every day using the bike sharing serviceVelib’, the New Yorker who uses a Zipcar to run an errand over lunch or the San Franciscan who uses Park Circa to share a parking spot, these services have become a global phenomenon. Lisa Gansky, the successful serial entrepreneur and author of “The Mesh: Why The Future of Business is Sharing” defines the mesh as this new shift where ownership is not the rule anymore in an economy where we share many different things....

“There is no delight in owning anything unshared.” -Seneca Shared services have become an important part of our lives. Be it the hordes of Parisians who ride to work every day using the bike sharing serviceVelib’, the New Yorker who uses a Zipcar to run an errand over lunch or the San Franciscan who uses Park Circa to share a parking spot, these services have become a global phenomenon. Lisa Gansky, the successful serial entrepreneur and author of “The Mesh: Why The Future of Business is Sharing” defines the mesh as this new shift where ownership is not the rule anymore in an economy where we share many different things....

Adaptive cruise control,lane change assistance,collision avoidance,blind spot monitoring,autopilots: These are just a few of the driver-assist features that are arriving in new cars. As technology races ahead with the aim of making driving safer, drivers are left with the daunting task of figuring out how it all works. Many dealerships offer car buyers abrief orientationto these advanced driver-assist technologies. The glovebox manual, now thicker than ever, provides many of the technical details....

Android developer David has been blogging about his efforts to make money on the Android Market at his blog,Making Money with Android. In arecent post, David summed up his first month on the Android Market with his ad-supported casual gameTap That! Number. In the summary, David is extremely candid about his sales numbers and statistics. The total revenue from his four-star-rated app in the first month? $3.88. David says that initially his app was getting below 5 installs a day, but once it was featured on the ‘Just In’ section of the Market, jumped up to about 100 installs a day....