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Europe and Middle East information technology (IT)

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Nordic private equity groups drive paytech investments as global actors hover

  Private equity companies in the Nordic region are stepping up M&A activity as international tech firms eye acquisitions in the region

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Thousands apply to Abu Dhabi AI University in first week

  Artificial intelligence university in Abu Dhabi gets more than 3,000 applications in the week following its application process being opened

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  Nordea brings fintech for women by women

  Bank’s female-only hackathon comes up with new ideas for financial services aimed at improving women’s financial wellbeing

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  Reykjavik: An IT ecosystem beyond the ice

  Iceland is a small island between Europe and the US, and that is one of several reasons why it is attracting tech startups to its capital

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  P27 pan-Nordic payments system moves a step closer

  Six regional banks sign shareholders’ agreements, agree business plan and make financial commitments to payments platform

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Nordic industrial giants continue to choose Indian suppliers for digital transformation

  HCL signs new deals with Volvo Cars and Equinor as India-based IT services suppliers continue to grow in the Nordic region

• 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 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Nordic governments open to Huawei’s ‘no spy’ offer

  Chinese tech giant seeks to reassure Nordic governments over security concerns in 5G contracts

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  Abu Dhabi AI university open for applications

  New university in UAE aims to enable students, businesses and governments to increase the use of artificial intelligence technology

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Sweden’s first GDPR fine sets regulatory tone

  Secondary school fined for breaching General Data Protection Regulation, signalling the attitude of Sweden’s Data Protection Authority

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  OVH rebrand signals renewed push to become Europe’s alternative cloud provider of choice

  French public cloud provider OVH has undergone a rebrand and doubled down on its pledge to offer European enterprises an alternative place to store their data

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  French and German banks end talks on challenger bank sale

  After months of negotiations, BPCE's proposed sale of Fidor Bank to OLB has fallen through

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  Best of VMworld 2019 Europe Awards nominations now open until 25 October

  Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination for this year’s awards

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  UK and Middle East PR firm ditches NetApp for Nutanix and Talon Fast

  Four Communications needed better connectivity for collaboration between the UK and its gulf sites, so dumped server/storage for hyper-converged and a distributed file system

• October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19

  CIO interview: Mohamed Sater, head of IT at Mumtalakat

  Mumtalakat’s head of IT, Mohamed Sater, is modernising the IT infrastructure of the organisation through cloud computing

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  Sweden’s SEB explores core banking in the cloud

  Swedish Bank is the latest organisation to agree to start using a Google-inspired, cloud-native core banking platform

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  Dutch AI Coalition wants to put the Netherlands on artificial intelligence map

  To ensure the Netherlands keeps pace in the artificial intelligence race, an AI coalition has been formed to help organisations in the sector to collaborate

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  Deutsche Bank to set up innovation division to drive digital transformation

  More details about Deutsche Bank’s new technology division in internal company email

• October 04, 2019 04 Oct'19

  Swedish authorities introduce robots to help social workers

  Software robots free up time for social workers to help benefits claimants find employment

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Dutch group works on digitising collaborator archives created in aftermath of World War 2

  Experiments have been carried out to ascertain the best technology to open up the analogue archives of the Central Archive of Special Justice in the Netherlands

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  Dubai’s Precision Group takes manufacturing into the cloud

  Head of IT at mould and packaging company talks about leading its digital transformation programme

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  ABN Amro investigation lends weight to anti-money laundering collaboration by Dutch banks

  Dutch authorities are investigating ABN Amro for possible failures to monitor and report potential money laundering activity

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  Nordic payment collaboration will ease cross-border payments

  P27 and Mastercard to bring seamless cross-border payments across Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Amsterdam new-build datacentre ban is not an ‘attack’ on operators, says government

  Dutch Data Center Association says a government official has offered written assurances that the temporary ban on new server farms in two areas of Amsterdam is just designed to spur adoption of sustainable growth habits

• September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19

  The Nordics’ passion for gamification goes global

  Nordic startups are pioneering the gamification of educational apps, with an international market looking on

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Drive for Nordic datacentre transformation

  Nordic enterprises looking to spread abroad are outsourcing datacentre IT in cutting-edge ways to gain international advantage

• September 19, 2019 19 Sep'19

  Nordic IT outsourcing: why India is leading the pack

  A rising tide lifts all ships when it comes to outsourcing in Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, but some ships have risen faster than others

• September 18, 2019 18 Sep'19

  Facebook automatically generates pages for Islamic State and Al-Qaeda

  Facebook algorithms have auto-generated hundreds of Facebook pages for the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Sharia, according to a whistleblower

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Inside Oman’s new tech startup drive

  Oman is aspiring to be a tech startup hub and is on a mission to compete with its neighbours in the Gulf

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  US lawmakers demand internal Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon documents in antitrust probe

  US lawmakers have given big tech companies a deadline to disclose a wide range of documents as the House Judiciary Committee’s bipartisan investigation into competition gathers pace

• September 16, 2019 16 Sep'19

  DigiPlex to build two green datacentres near Oslo by the end of 2020

  Nordic datacentre operator Digiplex has set itself an ambitious target of bringing two new datacentres online near Oslo by the end of 2020

• September 13, 2019 13 Sep'19

  Dutch banks to work together in fight against money laundering

  Dutch banks are sharing expertise and resources to help reduce money laundering through their accounts

• September 11, 2019 11 Sep'19

  Nordic countries deepen collaboration with Estonia-based cyber security operation

  Nordic countries are now working closer with Nato’s Estonia-based centre of excellence in cyber security

• September 09, 2019 09 Sep'19

  Loyal Dutch IT professionals not being rewarded enough, survey shows

  Companies warned they could lose loyal IT staff because salary rises do not match those on offer from rival employers

• September 06, 2019 06 Sep'19

  Telenor collaborates with Norwegian education providers on digitisation

  Educational institutions in Norway are working with telecoms supplier Telenor to help businesses better understand technology

• September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19

  Danish MobilePay app moves away from mainframe

  Danske Bank’s popular mobile payment app moves from mainframe to open source DataStax Enterprise built on Apache Cassandra

• September 02, 2019 02 Sep'19

  Dutch virtual reality can help reduce teacher shortage worldwide

  Dutch lecturer uses virtual reality to improve teaching and developments are being watched by the Teachers Task Force of Unesco

• September 02, 2019 02 Sep'19

  Nordic greentech attracts investment

  The Nordic region is seeing digital innovation across a diverse range of sectors and, not surprisingly, a region known for its green credentials also has a burgeoning green technology (greentech) sector

• August 30, 2019 30 Aug'19

  Location analysis expands Nordic telco’s range of services

  Nordic telecoms company works with startup to offer services to businesses through location data analysis

• August 29, 2019 29 Aug'19

  Finland’s security agencies collaborate after cyber attacks

  National Bureau of Investigations and National Cyber Security Centre aim to increase expertise and capability to defend Finland’s critical IT infrastructure

• August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

  A helping hand from the Nordics in the eye of the GDPR storm

  Nordic IT companies are well suited to supporting enterprises in their data protection projects, even though openness is more natural to them

• August 19, 2019 19 Aug'19

  Blue Prism gives Nordics the personal touch

  UK automation software company has opened and staffed a Nordic office to give customers in the region a better service

• August 19, 2019 19 Aug'19

  First government organisation in Bahrain migrates to Amazon Web Services

  Sovereign wealth fund’s internal IT team handled migration process, which has slashed the organisation’s technology operational costs

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  European fintech investment continues to grow as global investment falls

  European countries are continuing to see significant growth in financial technology investment as total global investment decreases

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Digital developments for the elderly on the rise in Norway

  The Nordic region's tech startup industry is geared towards creating tech in the healthcare sector with apps aimed at the elderly a growing segment

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Dutch province pioneers no-code platform

  Software development platform removes the need for expert programmers when adding functionality to applications

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  GDPR faces growing pains across Europe

  The General Data Protection Regulation is over a year old now, but it faces challenges across Europe where compliance has taken place at different speeds

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  Digital domain identified as major security threat by Norway’s intelligence service

  Norway's intelligence services has revealed the extent of the threat posed to the country by cyber attacks

• August 09, 2019 09 Aug'19

  Whistleblowers: James Glenn’s battle with Cisco opens new front on cyber security

  James Glenn, a 42-year-old security specialist, fought a 10-year legal battle with Cisco after blowing the whistle on serious security flaws. He lost his job, but has no regrets