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• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  CIO interview: Richard Gifford, CIO, Wincanton

  Transforming legacy systems, making use of real-time data and exploring emerging technologies are high on the agenda for the logistics giant’s IT team

• June 26, 2020 26 Jun'20

  CBI: Government must take steps to drive SME business innovation

  The coronavirus pandemic has shown how much can be achieved in a short period with a strong partnership between government and industry – and this needs to continue

• June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20

  Sapphire 2020: Christian Klein steps back from products to push ‘intelligent enterprise’ resilience

  Christian Klein used his first Sapphire keynote as CEO of SAP to underline the supplier’s support for supply chain resiliency and automation against Covid-19 pandemic and climate change backcloths

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  CaixiaBank gets ready to modernise IT using IBM Cloud Pak

  Spanish bank extends IBM relationship with the roll-out of Cloud Pak to modernise IT, which it says will allow it to innovate in quantum computing and blockchain

• May 14, 2020 14 May'20

  SK Telecom brings quantum security to the masses

  The South Korean telco is readying the world’s first 5G smartphone equipped with a quantum random number generator chipset

• April 01, 2020 01 Apr'20

  Air industry eyes £300m savings through blockchain for cargo efficiency

  Air transport alliance tests use of blockchain to transform the multibillion-pound industry that manages air cargo transportation

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  Employment and investment in UK tech sector booms

  UK digital tech sector continues rapid growth in 2019, attracting record investment for another year

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: UK business applications investment in AI gathers steam

  Artificial intelligence intensifies as an investment area for UK IT buyers, while cloud delivery is coming to ERP as well as other applications

• March 02, 2020 02 Mar'20

  How Asia’s tech firms are helping to stem the Covid-19 outbreak

  Data analytics and robots are being deployed in China and other Asian countries that have been hardest hit by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  Mastercard creates 1,500 tech jobs in Ireland

  New roles at tech hub in Dublin will include professionals with expertise in artificial intelligence, cyber security, blockchain and user experience

• February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20

  Air transport industry examines blockchain that could boost revenue by $40bn

  Businesses supplying aircraft parts and maintenance services are collaborating to investigate the potential of blockchain technology to improve logistics

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  Davos: The clock is ticking on climate change but cyber crime and emerging technologies add to risks

  Climate change, natural disasters, extreme weather and loss of biodiversity are the greatest risks we face. With cyber conflicts, state-sponsored hacking and internet fragmentation, doing nothing is not an option, says the World Economic Forum

• January 24, 2020 24 Jan'20

  Cyber gangsters publish staff passwords following ‘Sodinokibi’ attack on car parts group Gedia

  Sodinokibi hacking group steps up pressure on German automotive manufacturer by publishing information, including the CEO’s computer password and sensitive details of its IT systems, on the internet

• December 27, 2019 27 Dec'19

  Top 10 business applications stories of 2019

  The steady incursion of artificial intelligence into enterprise software was a major theme behind Computer Weekly’s in-depth stories in this area in 2019

• December 27, 2019 27 Dec'19

  Top 10 financial services IT stories of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 financial services and fintech stories of 2019

• December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19

  Major US tech companies named in lawsuit over mining deaths of Congolese children

  Multinational technology companies have been accused of knowingly benefiting from human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  How APAC firms can unleash the power of creative disruption

  Regional business leaders at the recent Leap Summit in Malaysia talked up the blueprint for creative disruption, which includes scaling up an idea and overcoming the distribution challenge, among other areas

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Dreamforce 19: Salesforce promotes enhanced MuleSoft data integration

  SaaS CRM supplier dubs enhancements to its acquired MuleSoft integration software “Customer 360” on the eve of its annual Dreamforce event in San Francisco

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  How DBS is pushing the limits of IT efficiency

  Besides shrinking its datacentre footprint by 75%, Singapore’s DBS Bank is running twice as many virtual machines on a single socket and decoupling applications from its infrastructure stack

• November 17, 2019 17 Nov'19

  Australian bourse to overhaul technology infrastructure

  The Australian Securities Exchange is embracing digital ledger technology, microservices and DevOps to modernise its core systems

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Telcos take to commercial blockchain to seize new revenue streams

  GlobalData report finds blockchain usage among telcos increasing, with use cases such as roaming fraud management, wholesale fees settlement, mobile money payments and IoT management

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  Unit4 CEO Mike Ettling: enterprise customers won’t pay extra for AI

  Mike Ettling, chief executive, Unit4, spoke to Computer Weekly at the Unleash HR conference in Paris about ERP trends, and how he is positioning the firm he started running this year

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Interview: Abdul Nasser Al Mughairbi, head of digital, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company

  Abdul Nasser Al Mughairbi is leading digital developments at Abu Dhabi's state-owned oil giant

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Abu Dhabi National Oil Company uses blockchain for inter-group network

  The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is using blockchain internally, with plans to expand it beyond the group boundaries

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Polaris Transportation digitises with RPA and hyperledger tech

  Transportation group has embarked on a digital transformation journey using WorkFusion and blockchain hyperledger for straight-through processing

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  Australia gets ready for open banking

  Traditional banks and fintech firms alike will need to bite the bullet in the crucial startup period if Australia’s open banking regime is to succeed

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  Teen TalkTalk hacker accused of cryptocurrency fraud in US

  Elliott Gunton, one of the teenage hackers who broke into TalkTalk’s systems in 2015, faces extradition to the US to face fraud charges

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Executive interview: Speed is cloud apps benefit, says Oracle’s Miranda

  In a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World 2019, applications head Steve Miranda discussed the supplier’s approach to cloud applications, digital assistants and machine learning

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Less than quarter of fintechs prepared for no-deal Brexit

  A survey reveals that less than a quarter of UK fintech companies have their businesses prepared for the UK's exit from the EU

• September 10, 2019 10 Sep'19

  How Zuellig Pharma is fighting fake drugs with blockchain

  The Asia-Pacific pharmaceutical giant is using a blockchain platform from SAP to help consumers identify the provenance of medicine

• August 27, 2019 27 Aug'19

  ASX partners VMware and DA on digital ledger tech

  The Australian Securities Exchange is working with VMware and Digital Asset to replace its Chess clearing and settlement system with digital ledger technology

• August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

  Almost 40% of UK tech talent resides in London bubble

  Despite cities around the UK being home to a multitude of tech talent, the London bubble still prevails, with a majority of those with digital skills collecting in the capital

• August 21, 2019 21 Aug'19

  Security concerns blocking UK digital transformation

  The majority of UK firms are holding off adopting new, more efficient and cost effective technology because they are failing to see cyber security as a driver of strategic value, report reveals

• August 06, 2019 06 Aug'19

  ICO joins international call for transparency around Facebook’s Libra currency

  Data protection regulators from around the world have signed a statement raising privacy concerns about Libra

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  Facebook accused of ‘breathtaking arrogance’ over Libra cryptocurrency plan

  US senators grill Facebook’s David Marcus over social media giant’s plans to launch cryptocurrency

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  Deutsche Bank’s public contraction is a major landmark for fintech

  German bank is cutting costs overall but is investing more in the latest digital technology as fintechs chip away at banking business

• July 12, 2019 12 Jul'19

  Blockchain.com banks on Google cloud to support growth of cryptocurrency management platform

  Blockchain.com reveals details of how it is ramping up its use of the Google Cloud Platform as the range of cryptocurrencies it supports grows, along with the size of its user base

• June 28, 2019 28 Jun'19

  Visa modernises B2B global payments through open source blockchain

  Visa is modernising cross-border business-to-business payments, with blockchain used to connect participating corporate

• June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19

  Open banking could generate £18bn in value for UK SMEs and citizens

  Consumers and SMEs could generate billions of pounds in value if open banking adoption reaches its potential

• June 25, 2019 25 Jun'19

  Half of Dutch IT decision-makers can’t explain blockchain technology

  IT decision-makers in the Netherlands know that blockchain has significant benefits, but half don’t understand how to apply it

• June 25, 2019 25 Jun'19

  Moscow’s 2019 Startup Village rewards innovation

  Moved to a bigger site, Moscow’s annual Startup Village continues to expand, with interest from large corporates growing

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  Facebook officially unveils cryptocurrency plans

  Facebook has released details about its Libra cryptocurrency, but questions still remain over how, and if, it will work

• June 18, 2019 18 Jun'19

  Facebook announces global digital currency Libra

  Facebook is launching digital coin to open up affordable financial services to the world

• June 12, 2019 12 Jun'19

  Gartner: Blockchain lacks functionality needed by enterprise

  Gartner has found there is generally a lack of understanding of how blockchain can be used in the enterprise

• June 03, 2019 03 Jun'19

  Most of today’s enterprise blockchain platforms will need replacing in two years

  Most blockchain platforms currently being used in enterprises will have to be replaced in the next couple of years, says Gartner

• May 29, 2019 29 May'19

  Blockchain and deep neural networks show digital archive promise

  Every event, past and present, is in the digital archive, but there is growing concern that this data can be easily manipulated to change historical facts

• May 09, 2019 09 May'19

  Sapphire 2019: Plattner vaunts public cloud as SAP future

  At SapphireNow 2019 in Orlando, Florida, SAP co-founder and chair Hasso Plattner said public cloud is the future as raft of Hana database and analytics enhancements announced

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  Singapore rolls out blockchain platform for verifying educational certificates

  Employers in the city-state can now use the OpenCerts platform to verify the qualifications of employees and new hires

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  APAC set for blockchain boom

  Led by China, spending on blockchain technology in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan will surpass $2bn by 2022

• April 18, 2019 18 Apr'19

  20 firms join Tech Nation’s cyber security scale-up programme

  Tech Nation scale-up programme is designed to boost the UK’s cyber sector, accelerate the growth of its top companies and build a robust, cross-industry network