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• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  Technology spend growing at expense of trader salaries

  Investment firms are spending a larger proportion of their budgets on software as data and artificial intelligence technology is seen to provide a competitive advantage

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  UKCloud to open Microsoft Azure Stack region for public sector users

  Public sector-focused cloud services provider UKCloud is in the throes of beta testing its Azure Stack setup, which will run in the same datacentres as the Cabinet Office's Crown Hosting Service

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  Blockchain to give global LGBT community a louder economic voice

  Blockchain will underpin a global platform that aims to give the LGBT community a more powerful economic voice

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  Grocer Lidl rolls out natural language chatbot to improve customer experience

  The German supermarket has unveiled a natural language chatbot to offer customers information about wines

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  Australia’s national payment system will ease peer-to-peer payments

  New Payments Platform is expected to accelerate the decline of cash and cheques in Australia, as well as simplify invoicing for businesses through overlay services

• February 13, 2018 13 Feb'18

  Quarter of retailers say tech investment makes it harder to connect with consumers

  Lack of return on investment in technology has left one in four retailers disappointed and unable to connect with their customers

• February 13, 2018 13 Feb'18

  London joins Citibank IT innovation network

  Citibank has made London home to its latest IT innovation hub, which will focus on applying data science and high performance computing to the business

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  Everywoman forum 2018: The dangers of non-diverse artificial intelligence

  Experts at the 2018 Everywoman forum spoke about the pros of role models and cons of an artificially intelligent future designed solely by men

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  Oracle pushes automation beyond database to cloud services

  At Cloud World New York, Oracle announced the extension of its machine learning efforts to services in its cloud platform

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  Moscow puts municipal vehicles online to save fuel

  The city of Moscow has deployed a unified IoT platform to monitor and control all of its municipal vehicles

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  APAC fintech market set to bloom

  Government support, the rise of digital payments and a new breed of financial services will put the region’s financial technology market in overdrive over the next few years

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  French technology startups are forging ahead – but how?

  France has sprung to the forefront of the international tech startup scene. How has this happened, and what's next for French tech firms?

• February 08, 2018 08 Feb'18

  How Auto Trader improved web design to support digital business

  Digitisation requires an agile methodology and the ability to enhance products quickly. We look at how Auto Trader optimised traditional web design

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  Stay of execution for RBS branches and free devices for some customers

  RBS is offering free training and devices to some customers in Scotland to help them eventually live without bank branches

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  Dubai transport authority maps city to support autonomous cars

  Dubai’s RTA has enlisted Here Technologies to build a high-definition map of the city to support its goals around self-driving cars

• February 07, 2018 07 Feb'18

  HPE opens APAC innovation lab to tap IoT market

  Facility in Singapore will rope in partners across the internet of things ecosystem to test new applications powered by HPE’s edge computing capabilities

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  AstraZeneca inks deals with Alibaba and Tencent in AI push

  Pharmaceutical bigwig AstraZeneca hopes to deliver smart healthcare services and combat online sales of counterfeit drugs through tie-ups with Chinese tech giants

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  Zerto boosts cloud-to-cloud and hybrid cloud replication

  Zerto Virtual Replication version 6 allows hybrid cloud data protection operations across on-premises datacentres and Amazon, Microsoft and IBM clouds, and 350-plus service providers

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  Lloyds Bank cuts CIO workforce

  Lloyds Banking Group is changing the skills make-up of its IT team to support demand for digital services

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  UK risks unemployment rise unless people are reskilled for AI

  The tech industry is optimistic that people will get jobs, but only if they have the right skills – and it looks like the UK is a long way from being artificial intelligence-savvy

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  Thousands of IT jobs being created in India by European and US companies

  Global businesses focus on India as they seek the best ecosystems for digital transformation

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  BMW selects new startups for Innovation Lab 2018 accelerator

  Five startups will pitch their projects to BMW executives for the chance to work with the car manufacturer’s commercial divisions

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  UK economy least likely to grow through AI

  The UK's poor productivity record is unlikely to grow hugely from artificial intelligence helpers that augment human work

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  Traditional datacentres to host just 6% of workloads by 2021, predicts Cisco

  The seventh annual Cisco Global Cloud Index highlights how the demand for workloads hosted in traditional private datacentres is continuing to wane in the face of cloud

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  Appeals court rules Lauri Love will not be extradited over US hacking charges

  The lord chief justice, Lord Burnett, says 33-year-old engineering student Lauri Love will not be extradited to the US to face hacking charges, in a landmark legal decision, and the Crown Prosecution Service should bring proceedings against Love in ...

• February 04, 2018 04 Feb'18

  APAC business leaders divided on impact of AI

  Around half of business leaders in the APAC region do not think they will have greater job satisfaction by offloading work to machines, or see a need for machines to decipher between good and bad commands

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Appeal Court to give landmark verdict on Lauri Love extradition

  The Appeal Court will decide whether Lauri Love, who has serious health issues, should be extradited to the US to face hacking charges, or face trial in the UK. The landmark case is the first test of legal protections introduced by Theresa May to ...

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Google Q4 results show businesses are buying into its public cloud

  The Google Cloud Platform is earning the search engine giant $1bn per quarter. Expect more cloud investment this year

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  CIO interview: Aaron Powell, CDO, NHS Blood and Transplant

  NHS Blood and Transplant chief digital officer Aaron Powell explains why pushing a digital transformation agenda has a real impact on people’s lives

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Faster data is a safer bet for risk exposure

  Betting platform service supplier FSB Technology (UK) has used GridGain’s in-memory database to support its existing PostgreSQL transactional system

• February 01, 2018 01 Feb'18

  IT Priorities 2018: Where senior IT managers plan to spend their budget

  It is the year when IT departments migrate to Windows 10, upgrade to Windows Server 2016, architect microservices and deploy cloud management

• February 01, 2018 01 Feb'18

  €7.1m EU Data Pitch accelerator recruits 18 startups

  Startups from the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Estonia, Denmark, France, Spain, Portugal, Lithuania and the Netherlands join an EU-funded accelerator programme involving the Open Data Institute

• February 01, 2018 01 Feb'18

  European Commission eyes blockchain opportunity

  The European Commission is aiming to get the most out of blockchain technology in a wide variety of sectors

• February 01, 2018 01 Feb'18

  Microsoft results show a distributed computing future

  While it has paid a massive US tax bill, the company's results show Microsoft is making progress on its intelligent cloud hybrid strategy

• February 01, 2018 01 Feb'18

  Australia needs to invest more in R&D to move forward

  Innovation and Science Australia has made 30 recommendations for the government to consider if the nation is not to become a global backwater

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  Digital Catapult begins accelerator programme to help AI startups overcome major hurdles

  A business accelerator programme from Digital Catapult aims to help artificial intelligence-focused startups by giving them access to expertise and computational resources

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  Swedish banks embrace rapidly evolving chatbots

  Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important business role for Sweden’s banks – and chatbots are the starting point for many

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  Dutch port readies itself for autonomous ships

  The Port of Rotterdam is using IoT and AI technology from IBM to improve efficiency and become the model for ports of the future

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  IT Priorities 2018: Why IT must change its approach to Windows 10

  Windows 10 is set to be a top priority for IT departments this year, but it should be seen as more than just a desktop operating system upgrade

• January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18

  SAP 2017 results: Cloud revenue nears €3.8bn, 7,900 S/4 Hana customers

  SAP has declared full year 2017 revenue of €23.5bn, of which nearly €2.8bn was cloud, alongside acquisition of Callidus, a cloud-based “lead to money” service

• January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18

  For Cisco, intent-based networking heralds future tech demands

  At Cisco Live Europe in Barcelona, Cisco has recommitted to its vision for intent-based networking, announcing new features as it builds a network it believes will be the enterprise platform of choice in years to come

• January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18

  ESG survey: Storage spending habits become ‘hybrid-cloud-defined’

  Analyst survey finds cloud is used as a way to make storage more efficient, but organisations are also bringing cloud apps back into the datacentre and spending on in-house capacity

• January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18

  Davos: Cyber risks grow as countries turn towards protectionism

  The cost of natural disasters is now at record levels, but the cost of cyber crime is far higher. The World Economic Forum hopes to persuade governments to work together on the problem, but with isolationist politics back in fashion, can it succeed?

• January 29, 2018 29 Jan'18

  Alibaba Cloud to tackle Malaysia’s traffic woes with AI

  Chinese cloud service provider Alibaba will use its City Brain artificial intelligence platform to analyse data from camera feeds and traffic junctions in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur

• January 29, 2018 29 Jan'18

  Qumulo file access hybrid cloud QF2 file system launches in Europe

  QF2 brings Posix/Windows-compatible scale-out NAS file storage to hybrid cloud with access via on-premise hardware appliance or Amazon compute and storage in the cloud

• January 29, 2018 29 Jan'18

  UK gas supplier outsources to the cloud with HCL

  Cadent is modernising its IT operations through a five-year outsourcing deal with Indian IT services supplier

• January 29, 2018 29 Jan'18

  Government bulks up on AI personnel

  The UK government is starting to put bodies behind its artificial intelligence commentary as two departments announce job roles

• January 28, 2018 28 Jan'18

  How blockchain can secure the IoT

  By doing away with a central authority in internet of things (IoT) networks, blockchain technology can reduce the risk of IoT devices being compromised by a single point of security failure

• January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18

  NVidia aims to tackle UK’s AI skills gap by educating year nine students

  Computer chip developer is providing a teaching kit to educate students on artificial intelligence

• January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18

  Leak confirms CEO dumped Intel shares after Meltdown and Spectre processor flaw

  Leaked document show that Intel’s CEO sold his shares the very day the company told hardware makers of its processor flaw