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Europe and Middle East information technology (IT)

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  Finnish gaming company PAF migrates to the cloud

  Move to Amazon Web Services cloud brings scalability to gaming company that gives part of its profits to good causes

• May 07, 2019 07 May'19

  Swedish government tells citizens to hoard cash in case of cyber attack

  Civil Contingencies Agency says cash is needed in case of emergencies such as technology failures and cyber attacks

• May 03, 2019 03 May'19

  Police down two dark web markets

  Europol-supported coordinated law enforcement approach across Europe and the US was key to operations’ success

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  Middle East Interview: Bahrain fintech drive gathers speed

  Bahrain wants to be a launchpad into the wider region for financial technology firms looking to scale

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  Danish financial services regulator launches sandbox initiative

  FT Lab offers fintech startups a platform to test out their products in a secure environment

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Danske Bank and IBM bring AI to banking IT

  Artificial intelligence partnership is designed to reduce the risk of major IT outages and keep the bank’s customers happy

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Facebook faces fresh privacy actions from regulators

  Facebook faces legal action from Canada after it dismissed regulators’ findings that it failed to protect customer privacy. The firm has set aside $5bn to settle a privacy action in the US and faces a new investigation in Ireland

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  GDPR cases drive bigger budgets for Nordic regulators

  High-profile General Data Protection Regulation cases in Finland and Sweden have increased the workload for regulators, which are to receive an increase in funding

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Stockholm prospers as tech hub as perceptions of entrepreneurs changes

  Stockholm has thrived as a tech startup hub after out-of-date attitudes to entrepreneurs changed

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Egypt aims to develop coding skills earlier in education system

  An Egyptian government initiative will see thousands of teenagers trained to code in HTML, CSS and Python

• April 18, 2019 18 Apr'19

  Etihad Airways automates customer and luggage journey monitoring

  National airline of United Arab Emirates, Etihad Airways, will improve passenger journeys through automated monitoring

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Construction halted at Apple datacentre in Denmark over alleged contractor dispute, report suggests

  A local media report suggests construction of Apple's first non-US datacentre has halted in Denmark over a dispute over missed deadlines by the contractor tasked with delivering the build

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Middle East CIOs optimistic as budgets increase and digital transformations expand

  Cyber security and risk management will see the biggest increase in spending, but digital transformation of businesses is a major driver of investment, survey shows

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Sweden to take up Finnish AI challenge

  Following Finland’s example, Swedish companies are starting to use a training programme to bring staff up to speed with artificial intelligence

• April 15, 2019 15 Apr'19

  Facebook takes extraordinary legal steps to contain document leak

  Facebook targets journalists and news organisations for computer searches

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Malmo: Sweden’s small but sturdy tech ecosystem

  While Stockholm is a recognised hub for tech startups, Malmo, in Sweden's south, is attracting increasing numbers of digital entrepreneurs

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Skype blocked in UAE will hit businesses as well as people

  Skype has been blocked to users in the United Arab Emirates, and its effects will be felt by businesses as well as citizens

• April 09, 2019 09 Apr'19

  Sweden chosen by Amazon Web Services as renewable energy project location

  Amazon Web Services has chosen a wind farm in Sweden as part of a project to source renewable energy for its global infrastructure

• April 05, 2019 05 Apr'19

  Dutch government to make AI national priority

  The Dutch government wants to increase its focus on the artificial intelligence sector, as other countries gain an advantage

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Huawei reports record numbers despite tumultuous year

  Huawei has become one of the world’s largest technology companies by revenue, suggesting the accusations over its ties to the Chinese government are failing to have much impact

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Fidor founder leaves as parent bank plots future

  The founder of digital challenger bank Fidor leaves company as traditional banking parent company tries to sell business

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Consumers still important as Dutch satnav pioneer maps B2B future

  TomTom is focusing on the business-to-business sector, but its consumer base is an important part of its strategy

• 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 28, 2019 28 Mar'19

  Norway datacentre strategy producing dividend

  Norway's strategy to become a favourable location for Nordic datacentres is gathering steam

• March 28, 2019 28 Mar'19

  Swedish companies increasingly using private networks to communicate with ecosystem

  Swedish IT leaders are increasingly turning to private networks to communicate with other businesses in their ecosystem

• March 27, 2019 27 Mar'19

  Oslo car-free plan builds on micro-mobility trend

  Norway’s capital steers away from reliance on cars as political agenda is aided by technological innovation to realise social goals

• March 27, 2019 27 Mar'19

  Norsk Hydro cyber attack cost estimates up to $41m

  Initial estimates have put the financial impact of last week’s ransomware attack on the Norwegian aluminium producer of up to nearly $41m, raising questions about cyber insurance coverage

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Artificial intelligence making major inroads into Russian banking

  Russian banks are identifying use cases for artificial intelligence, but the gradual adoption of the technology will require access to a deeper skills pool if it is to accelerate

• March 21, 2019 21 Mar'19

  Norway’s IT sector and government to tackle skills shortage

  Norway's IT sector is getting much-needed government support to help improve access to talent

• March 18, 2019 18 Mar'19

  EU law enforcement agencies prepare for major cyber attacks

  Law enforcement agencies across the European Union are preparing for major cross-border cyber attacks, says Europol

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  Venture capitalists driving Nordic tech enterprise growth

  The vibrant tech sector in the Nordic region is attracting increasing attention from venture capitalists

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  Met Police collaborated with US prosecutors in WikiLeaks investigation

  The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it exchanged information on WikiLeaks staff in the UK with the US Department of Justice, which is conducting criminal investigations into the organisation

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  Revolutionising patient booking in the Gulf

  Startup in the Gulf region is applying digital technology to solve the inefficiencies in medical appointment booking processes

• March 04, 2019 04 Mar'19

  UK among most expensive countries for mobile data

  The UK ranks 136th in the world for the average cost of 1GB of mobile data, according to new statistics

• March 04, 2019 04 Mar'19

  Danske Bank builds on machine learning to predict IT failures

  Danish bank is using artificial intelligence to help it prevent IT outages that could damage its reputation with customers

• March 02, 2019 02 Mar'19

  Facebook asked George Osborne to influence EU data protection law

  Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg invited one of the chancellor’s children to Facebook’s office as part of a intensive lobbying programme to influence European data protection legislation

• March 01, 2019 01 Mar'19

  IBM deal to drive Nordea’s IT-led transformation

  Nordea is expanding its relationship with IBM through a deal that will give it access to the skills and resources required to keep pace with the digital revolution in banking

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  Dutch companies lack knowledge of IoT’s benefits

  Many organisations in the Netherlands are missing out on the benefits of the internet of things because they lack awareness of its potential

• February 25, 2019 25 Feb'19

  Nordic tech is increasing diversity but more needs to be done

  The shortage of women in the boardroom is a problem in the Nordics, like other regions, but work in its tech sector means the future could be more promising

• February 22, 2019 22 Feb'19

  Facebook planned to spy on Android phone users, internal emails reveal

  Facebook planned to use its Android app to track the location of its customers and to allow advertisers to send political advertising and invites to dating sites to ‘single’ people, confidential documents show

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  MWC 2019: O2 to launch 5G by Christmas

  Ahead of Mobile World Congress, operator O2 has revealed further details of how it is planning for the advent of 5G

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  MWC 2019: 5G smartphones go live on Vodafone network

  Vodafone has connected three 5G-enabled smartphones to a live network during trials in Spain

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  Huawei faces battle to win Nordic trust

  Nordic countries are investigating the spying allegations made against Chinese networking supplier Huiawei

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  Estonia redoubles efforts to attract global IT talent

  IT professionals from all over the world are being lured to Estonia through a government recruitment campaign

• February 15, 2019 15 Feb'19

  CaixaBank customers can use their faces to withdraw money at ATMs

  Spanish bank begins roll-out of ATMs equipped with facial recognition technology, but customers can still use card and PIN

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Dutch developer offers businesses nuclear security option for communications

  Startup that created the secure platform for communication between world leaders at the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit in the Netherlands seeks to revolutionise business mail

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  Nordic region primed to pioneer 5G

  The Nordic region could pioneer the commercial use of 5G, with Finland and Sweden hotbeds for the technology

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  Government legislates to bring back roaming charges in no-deal Brexit

  All four UK operators have said they have no plans to reintroduce roaming charges, but EE, O2 and Vodafone have not committed themselves not to do so

• February 04, 2019 04 Feb'19

  Swiss bank moves away from file with Cloudian object storage

  PostFinance opts for Cloudian object storage as it migrates 100 million files away from NetApp and builds S3-compatible archives for Hadoop and Apache Spark

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  Nordic green energy IT strategy gains momentum

  The Nordic countries are building strong IT sectors around their green-powered datacentre infrastructures