UK Technology Sector: A Brief Analysis
Not as brash at the City, but still a crucial element of the vital UK services sector (Credit: OB Films) Background Programming has boomed in recent years with the rise of ‘Web 3.0’. From 2010, the significant growth in user generated content, combined with intelligent algorithms that prioritise or promote such content, has led to a software boom (Spivak, 2019). Conceptually, this theory is based on the boom in search and social media platforms, at the expense of basic HTML pages. The processing of data by software can also been deemed the ‘semantic web’ (W3C, 2019). Its growth has been facilitated by technology, with C+, HTML5 and Java allowing seamless user experience. The creation of Apple’s app store in 2008, and the Android rival, has given search, social, SaaS and gaming platforms an ‘ultra’ mass market viability. This has been further strengthened through communication innovation, significantly through 3G and 4G spectrum placements. The app boom, whilst coming at the expens
