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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 ...

SAP used its Human Resources (HR) and Human Capital Management (HCM) conference this week to develop its software roadmap offerings and announce new products. The brand is (take a deep breath) SAP ...

Once upon a time, pretty much every meeting had a minute-taker – someone who kept notes, summarising who said what. These meeting minutes were circulated afterwards for comment and correction, and ...

Sauce Labs’ head of open source Isaac Murchie talks to Computer Weekly Open Source Insider to deconstruct open source and ask what happens next in terms of what matters, examine who is (and isn’t) ...

Interesting article on Finextra about the pay packages of top fintech executives. According to research from Morlands Human Capital, cited by Finextra, the average package of a CEO at a fintech ...

There are networks, there special interest groups, there are consortia, there are working groups, there are foundations, there are alliances and there are coalitions. There are also common ...

Testing was once a just a ‘thing’, now it’s an as-a-Service (aaS) software application development utility and in many cases it is positioned as a platform in its own right. BrowserStack is one ...

An API is an API is an API, right? No, it’s not that simple… and here’s why. As we have explained before now, an Application Programming Interface is code that allows two other pieces of software ...

Machine Learning (ML) doesn’t just learn, it needs training… and there’s no ML training without a ML training model. The so who’s doing the training and who’s building the models? Enterprise AI ...

Had a great couple of online sessions recently with Joe Merces of the splendidly named CloudDaddy. The aim of CloudDaddy is to simplify one of the great pain points of IT (no, not repairing ...

The government’s flagship digital identity system Gov.uk Verify has become a car crash in motion, accelerating towards its demise. The Cabinet Office’s project watchdog has condemned Verify by ...

Virgin Mooney will probably scrap its plan to build a digital bank if it merges with Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks, because the latter already has an established bank.

If you’re an IT professional managing a large desktop estate or an end user with a Windows 10 PC, you’ll be aware that Windows is undergoing a tortuous transformation, with only enthusiasts and ...

Australian tourist favourite Bondi Beach has taken a bite of the app market by creating a mobile app which tells lifeguards whether there’s a shark nearby. According to the Telegraph the system of ...

As we know, an Application Programming Interface (API) is code that allows two software programs to communicate with each other. The API defines the correct way for a developer to write a program ...