In summer 2008, the FT was the first newspaper to record the new moniker that had been applied to the growing cluster of tech and digital media start-ups around London’s Shoreditch.
Two and a half years later, “Silicon Roundabout” is the centre of a major government growth initiative and entrepreneurs are still flocking to Old Street and its environs.
So the FT returned to the east end to investigate why start-ups are clustering there and what they think of David Cameron’s “Tech City” scheme. Read more