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• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  UN resolution ignores special rapporteur’s call for halt to spyware sales

  UN’s Human Rights Council adopts resolution to explore the impact of new and emerging digital technologies on human rights, but the text ignores a damning report by the council’s own expert on freedom of expression

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  Organisations turn to AI in race against cyber attackers

  Businesses are racing to automate their defences as hackers and nation states launch increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks

• July 03, 2019 03 Jul'19

  One-third of people prefer instant reply from chatbot about finances to waiting for human reply

  Consumers are warming to being supported by chatbots when it comes to financial services, but firms in the sector face hurdles to achieve true end-to-end automation

• June 25, 2019 25 Jun'19

  Big companies face extinction unless they use IT better

  Better use of IT could add £100bn to the British economy, says a CBI report into UK big business

• June 18, 2019 18 Jun'19

  Tableau sticking to data mission under Salesforce

  Tableau President and CEO Adam Selipsky told the company’s European user conference in Berlin that Salesforce acquisition will not affect its mission of “seeing and understanding data”

• June 10, 2019 10 Jun'19

  Salesforce buys Tableau to add self-service analytics to CRM

  Salesforce is set to buy business intelligence data visualisation pioneer Tableau as it seeks to amplify its customer analytics capability

• June 07, 2019 07 Jun'19

  Google buys Looker to deepen enterprise software arsenal

  Google is set to buy business intelligence platform supplier Looker as it beefs up its cloud enterprise software stack

• May 31, 2019 31 May'19

  Facebook loses bid to halt European court decision on EU-US data sharing

  Irish Supreme Court dismisses attempt by Facebook to prevent the European Court of Justice considering the validity of US-EU data transfers, after Austrian lawyer Max Schrems argued that they put the privacy of EU citizens at risk

• May 28, 2019 28 May'19

  Saudi Arabia’s largest auto company completes SAP project as part of digital transformation

  Abdul Latif Jameel Motors wins SAP Quality Gold Award for digital revamp programme that overhauled performance and efficiency across its business

• 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

• April 04, 2019 04 Apr'19

  The rise of digital workers and the bot economy

  Automation Anywhere’s booming business, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, is a sign of things to come in the new world of work where digital workers can be hired from a bot store

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  Middle East countries accelerate quantum computing research

  Gulf countries must invest in quantum computing research to ensure they continue to to remain digital pioneers

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  OpenText Enterprise World Europe: CEO Barrenechea stakes claim for EIM as competitive edge

  OpenText’s CEO and CTO Mark Barrenechea used his keynote at the company’s inaugural Enterprise World Europe customer and partner conference in Vienna to make a case for enterprise information management as a software category that can give corporate...

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  NHS AI code launched to set rules of engagement for tech firms

  The government says its code of conduct for the use of artificial intelligence and other data technologies in the NHS sets out the data privacy rules of the game for tech firms

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  IT Priorities 2019: UK investment intent for AI intensifies, SaaS applications mature beyond CRM

  AI continues to strengthen as a focus for IT systems buyers in the UK, according to this year’s Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey, while cloud applications are maturing beyond CRM