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Much like every other industry, retail is becoming consumed by technology adoption to the point where the two are no long separate sectors. “Every company is a technology company” is a phrase heard ...

If you were to make a list of things least worthy of your tears, the wistful tale of a man who sold his soul to Facebook for billions of dollars would surely nestle somewhere between, say, Tim Cook ...

In this guest post Anna Faelten, associate partner at EY, talks about the difference in investment between male and female run startups, and how we can start to close this gap. According to data ...

Cloud computing happened, then the Earth cooled. Actually, cloud computing happened and then we started to look at ways of engineering this service-based approach to computing into our existing and ...

As part of its Infor Inforum conference and exhibition held in Washington DC this September, industry-specific cloud applications company Infor and #YesWeCode today announced the launch of GenOne. ...

This blog from Computer Weekly’s business editor, Clare McDonald, discusses the technology innovations that are evolving the retail sector, including the technology retailers are adopting, the ...

IBM named its AI engine Watson after its first CEO, Thomas Watson. Salesforce called its play in the AI game Einstein, alter Albert, obviously. Much of SAP’s machine learning and AI is encapsulated ...

Quocirca's Print 2025 Spotlight report Digitisation: the key to SMB success reveals that SMBs are accelerating their digitisation initiatives through the use of digital workflow services and ...

The fintech industry is maturing to the point that it now has subcategories, find out about some of the companies making hay in the sector.

The headline grabbers in storage are usually the quick – flash, NVMe etc – or the harbingers of the next generation, such as the cloud. But in some ways these are the extremes, the outliers. In ...

It’s hard to believe, but it has been four years since the Computer Weekly Developer Network set foot on Texan soil for a Spiceworks SpiceWorld event. As we have detailed before, Spiceworks is a ...

This is a guest blogpost by Francois Ajenstat, Chief Product Officer, Tableau Data analysis is only as good as the quality of your data. Anyone who has ever analysed data knows that the information ...

CloudBees are (is) a bunch of busy social bees (presumably why the firm called themselves that). The enterprise DevOps company used the DevOps World | Jenkins World event to announce CloudBees ...

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has been conducting a review of digital identity since taking over policy responsibility from the Government Digital Service (GDS) in ...

An insurtech company set up a few years ago has dislodged 130 year old global insurance giant Allianz in BMW deal

The art of 3D printing has suffered a setback in Kuwait, after pressure from hysterical clergymen forced the closure of its local Doob 3D store with accusations of idolatry. The company offers a ...

If banks and big tech firms go head to head for customers fintechs will benefit because the banks need them if they are to have any chance of winning the customer satisfaction battle

Developers using Artificial Intelligence (AI) ‘engines’ to automate any degree of decision making inside their applications will want to ensure that the brain behind that AI is free from bias and ...

Singapore’s National Environmental Agency (NEA) is roping in Alphabet life sciences research outfit Verily’s technology to separate male mosquitoes from female ones in an ongoing project to tackle ...

Pardon us… your company doesn’t have a technology experimental division? Okay sorry, it might be called the prototyping department, the Proof of Concept (PoC) laboratory, the exploration ‘foundry’, ...

What do you do when the coders you want would rather manage than code?

Document exchange and transaction management company Amalto has come forward with early adopter options for its Platform 6 enterprise application framework. This developer toolset is designed to ...

This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog by Johan Karlsson in his capacity as senior consultant at Perforce Software. Perforce is known for its version control ...

Pulumi Corporation has come forward with new libraries and tools for Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration system. Pulumi who? Ah yes sorry, Pulumi is quite new (founded in 2017 and ...

A study commissioned by Stripe has revealed that the Singapore economy has the potential to grow by S$1.6bn each year, if companies harness developer resources more effectively. Conducted by ...

SAP is bringing a new element of automation to Human Resources (HR) with a new open community designed to create purpose-built and easy-to-consume HR applications. The hope is that organisations of ...

Hyperledger (or the Hyperledger project) is an umbrella project of open source blockchains and related tools. The project was founded by the Linux Foundation at the end of 2015 with the intention ...

You don’t need to be told by two self-satisfied dudebros that poking AI with a stick might come back to bite us one day, but Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Elon Musk has certainly reminded us to ...

Today IT trade group techUK announced some of the things it wants the UK post-brexit immigration policy to include. Just yesterday I was talking to the fintech lead at Tech Nation about this very ...

The digital revolution is challenging the regulatory environment across every westernised, developed economy. Governments in the EU, UK, France, Germany and the US are each trying to take a lead in ...