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Fintech makes the world go around
Fintech pioneer helps to give fintech treatment to debt financing after Fidor sale
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 05 Jul 2019The founder of digital bank Fidor has turned his attention to fixing the inefficiencies of debt processing at banks through technology and empathy
Eyes on APAC
The blockchain effect: why businesses need to prepare employees
Informa TechTarget 05 Jul 2019This is a guest post by Rosie Cairnes, regional director at Skillsoft ANZ When most people hear the term blockchain, they immediately think of bitcoin, the most widely known of the hundreds of ...
DevOps happened, right? So then, users (both Dev… and Ops) now find themselves in a place where they need to manage their digital identities inside increasingy connected systems. This much we can ...
Business process services company Wipro and technology consulting firm Moogsoft has snuggled up in bed, by which of course we mean formed a partnership. Moogsoft’s developer credentials stem from ...
Neneh Cherry’s Glastonbury performance gained some unexpected attention from the tech world at this year’s festival, after the laptop playing the evergreen singer’s backing visuals crashed and ...
Fintech makes the world go around
What do the fintechs think of Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra?
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 03 Jul 2019Fintechs welcome Facebook Libra but realise the scale of the social media giant's challenge to make it work
Developers use databases -- no surprise there. But, crucially, developers aren’t DataBase Administrators (DBAs), so they tend to prefer database platforms that can provide them with as much ...
Three years ago I blogged on why I made the mistake of voting Remain. I would still prefer the UK to be a member of a reformed, multi-track, democratically accountable European Union. But that is ...
We’re expanding our blockchain cryptocurrency vocabulary all the time. As such, Loopring may be the next term you add to your technology lexicon. Loopring is an open source and multilateral token ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Tal Lev-Ami in his capacity as co-founder and CTO of Cloudinary. California and Israel based Cloudinary provides ...
1) DCMS kicks the can down the road - again The deadline for submissions to the DCMS consultation on On Line Harms is July 1st. The NAO report politely savaging the UK failure to join up its ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Byron Calmonson, director at The Resourcing Hub discusses what the future of work will look like, and whether the next generation are ready for it. The ...
This is a guest blog post by Tom Dailey, chief international legal, policy and regulatory officer at Verizon The regulatory and policy landscape is a really important topic for all businesses given ...
Fintech makes the world go around
The ID Co passport to travel the internet: Fintech interview 23
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 27 Jun 2019The ID Co is offering businesses technology that has the potential of getting a mortgage approval in seconds
While enterprises are expected to be one of the early beneficiaries of 5G networks that promise low-latency connectivity for driverless vehicles and factory machinery, consumer use cases of the ...
Toronto residents are grappling with a quandary posed by the plans of Google sister company Sidewalk Labs to build a smart city on its eastern waterfront. It’s always fun to learn about Google’s ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Scepticism and the challenges beyond for Facebook’s Libra
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 26 Jun 2019Facebook faces major hurdles to make Libra a success even if it overcomes the rampant scepitisim
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Chris Carreiro in his capacity as CTO of ParkView at Park Place Technologies -- the company is a specialist in datacentre ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Why database admins should embrace automation
Managing Editor 25 Jun 2019There are certain functions in database administration, that are good candidates for automation. These are the nuts and bolts of the job - like how to partition the storage, what happens if a disk ...
Fintech makes the world go around
London Tech Week opinion 4: Beyond the unicorns
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 25 Jun 2019Don'y forget the tech SMEs amid the noise being made by the unicorns
It's hard to recall a recent presentation from a vendor that didn't include the AI or Machine-Learning buzz-phrases. I'm not just talking IT here - coffee vending machines probably also incorporate ...
Software is a multi-faceted thing. Because of this core reality, we often talk about elements of software code as layers in a fabric, or indeed (to use a more literal term and one that proliferates ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Mea culpa: Trendy isn’t the same as important
Freeform Dynamics 21 Jun 2019I hate it when you realise that your point of reference has been unduly influenced by what’s currently trending rather than what’s really important. A recent briefing with Jim Liddle of Storage ...
Eyes on APAC
Alibaba Cloud earns validation from Singapore banking association
Informa TechTarget 21 Jun 2019Alibaba Cloud said it has become the first public cloud supplier in the industry to obtain the Outsourced Service Providers Audit Report (OSPAR) validation by the Association of Banks in Singapore ...
Blockchain is changing everything. Software application developers are now working to accommodate for streams where Blockchain-based immutable data [flows, stores and more] can be used for greater ...
A Pakistani politician has played down the embarrassment of one of his briefings being streamed live to Facebook with the cat filter on. “The cat filter was turned on by mistake,” said Shaukat ...
Fintech makes the world go around
London Tech Week opinion 3: The coming of age moment
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 19 Jun 2019With London Tech Week held recently various tech sector executives have kindly offered to provide their opinions of this year’s London Tech week. Here are the opinions already published: London ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Fintech IT chiefs earn more than chief financial officers
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 19 Jun 2019Fintech IT heads are the top earners but this will change as the industry matures and needs for different skills
When IT Meets Politics
Is the internet destroying Western Liberal Democracy?
Winsafe Ltd 18 Jun 2019There is an irony in the appointment by the House of Lords of a committee to explore the impact of digital technologies on democracy. The Internet is now, however, global. The majority of users ...
Developers care about system, software and device passwords -- a secure approach to password integrity and protection is part and parcel of what they do... and is a key part of the programmer ...
Much as we would like it to be, the Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team can’t be everywhere at once -- and this week, that means we’re missing MongoDB World 2019 in New ...
Fintech makes the world go around
London Tech Week opinion 2: UK tech is more than just London
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 18 Jun 2019There is life in UK tech beyond the Big Smoke
Business document information company Abbyy has launched Mobile Web Capture, a Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers to add real-time image and data capture to mobile web-based onboarding ...
The technology industry likes to use the CRM acronym; it is normally used to shorten Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technologies. But CRM now means something else too; in these cloud-native ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Lloyds bank adds savings and credit card to open banking
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 17 Jun 2019Lloyds Banking Group launches the latest edition of its open banking journey
We need to look at software feature management and define the term. But first, some context is needed to understand what kind of companies are operating in this space. CloudBees describes itself as ...
Tibco has made a direct developer play designed to drive recognition of its technologies in areas where programmers are looking to build cloud-native applications. Known for its integration, API ...
Agile developers tend to view data modeling as a bottleneck preventing them from delivering value. This is the view held by Pascal Desmarets, founder and CEO of Hackolade, a Belgium-based startup ...
Fintech makes the world go around
London Tech Week opinion 1: Incorporating diversity in your company
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 14 Jun 2019Diversity in the tech industry is vital if the UK is to prosper, but how do companies build it into their DNA?
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ian Greenhalgh in his role as UK & US managing partner at Delaware. Spelled in lower case, delaware is a software ...
The fifth series of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror landed on Netflix this month, and we were surprised to find it’s moved away from making terrifying technology predictions to ...
It’s hard to know whether to pronounce software infrastructure company Wind River as wind (as in eaten too many beans, that thing that makes sails billow out) or wind (as in snakey, twisty) river. ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Currencycloud takes Lego approach to payments infrastructure: Fintech Interview 22
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 12 Jun 2019Currencycloud offers emerging fintechs make chiild's play of building a payments infrastructure
Cisco is not a cables, hubs, switches and routers (did someone say token ring adapter?) focused networking company, Cisco is a software company focused on developers - right? Well, such is the ...
In this guest post, Paul Mercina, director of product management, at datacentre hardware and maintenance provider ParkPlace Technologies offers a step-by-step guide about how, what and when to move ...
Wordpress platform company WP Engine wants to be known as the WordPress Digital Experience Platform (DXP) company. Is that experiences for Wordpress end users, customers, partners or plain old ...
The Full Spectrum
John Suffolk's grilling by MPs exposes the tech industry's troubling amorality
Security Editor 11 Jun 2019In an astonishing and frankly unprecedented turn of events before the Science and Technology Select Committee this week, Huawei chief security officer John Suffolk was branded a "moral vacuum" by ...
There are many magic rings in this world… and none of them should be used lightly. This is true. It is also true that organisations in every vertical are now having to work hard and find automation ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Why Tech should lead, when governments lag
Managing Editor 10 Jun 2019Last week shares in the tech giants plummeted following reports that US regulators from the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission were looking at investigating their business. On the ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding. But more than that, we want to talk coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the tough ...