Amazon company to move into Tech City

According to a report in the Independent, Amazon will move Pushbutton into a 50,000 square foot office among the throng of fast-growing research startups nearly Old Street.

One of those startups is business information resource levelbusiness.com. Chris Downs, co-founder of the firm explained that many of the area's small businesses are unhappy at the prospect of corporate behemoths entering the zone.

"It's in effect hard to recruit talent for the moment, especially in research. We're already losing brilliant talent to Google and Facebook. We were working with a professor in data analytics and the project ended because he got snapped up by Google."

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The first Computing Summit

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