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IT for retail and logistics

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Retail tech spending will grow 3.6% globally in 2019, predicts Gartner

  Global spending on technology in the retail sector is set to grow by 3.6% in 2019, according to predictions by Gartner analysts

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Why subpostmasters and Post Office are battling it out in the High Court

  After over a decade of controversy, next week marks the beginning of a court battle between subpostmasters and the Post Office over allegations of faults in an accounting system leading to unfair prosecutions

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Firms will use AI to automate HR processes within two years

  Companies are gearing up to automate HR processes with artificial intelligence and machine learning, while at the same time battling with outdated IT systems

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Choose security tools wisely to gain upper hand

  The cyber threat landscape is continually changing, but staying abreast of attacker and defender innovation can help business leaders gain the upper hand, says KuppingerCole

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  SMEs use fintech in fight against online giants, but fears remain

  Online SMEs are turning to financial technology to help them make payment processes easy for customers as they try to compete with online giants

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Morrisons loses appeal against data breach liability ruling

  Supermarket chain has lost its appeal against a High Court ruling that found it liable for a data leak by a former employee, underlining the importance of managing insider threats

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  Centralised identity risky and not web 3.0 friendly, says entrepreneur

  User controlled identity is less risky than centralised identity and essential for the next evolution of the web, according to an entrepreneur and evangelist of self-sovereign identity and blockchain technologies

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  Retail focus is key to Alibaba’s new London datacentre

  China’s e-commerce giant has been slowly expanding into Europe and is now heading for a clash of the titans against AWS and Azure

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Zeppelin uses Splunk for pre-emptive maintenance

  German construction equipment rental firm Zeppelin has been using Splunk to predict when its machinery will need maintenance before it breaks down

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Postal delivery robots trialled in Norway

  The Norwegian postal service is testing out the value and viability of robots delivering mail to homes and businesses

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Amazon to open Manchester R&D centre and create 1,000 skilled jobs

  Online retail giant will open a new office in Manchester and expand others to house 1,000 new skilled research and development employees in the UK

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Middle East gears up for 5G

  The race for 5G is well and truly under way, and the UAE and Saudi Arabia are well positioned to be among the first countries in the world to deliver the benefits of this new telecoms protocol

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Contactless payments surpass Chip and PIN in UK shops

  Contactless card payments now account for more spending in UK stores than Chip and PIN

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Carrefour kicks off blockchain food traceability drive

  Using blockchain to capture data, shoppers will be able to use their smartphones to see exactly where a product on the supermarket shelf came from

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Good data governance is good business

  Organisations are failing to understand the importance of getting their data relationship with customers right and seeing the business opportunities that it enables, an industry analyst warns