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• August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15

  Government digital chief Mike Bracken announces he is leaving

  GDS director Mike Bracken is leaving government, and his unexpected departure will inevitably raise questions about the future of GDS

• July 27, 2015 27 Jul'15

  MPs examine visa rules over immigration for software and digital skills

  Home Affairs committee launches an inquiry after the number of skilled worker visas issued reached its monthly cap for the first time

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Bilingual coders earn £4,500 more than single language colleagues

  Coders that know more than one coding language earn an average of 10% more than single language colleagues, reveals Greythorn report

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  Salesforce eager to support startup culture sweeping Europe

  Salesforce’s head of startup relations shares why it’s partnered with accelerator Startupbootcamp

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Women in IT meet prime minister David Cameron's gender pay gap news with scepticism

  The prime minister’s announcement that firms with more than 250 employees will have to disclose salaries has been met with concerns over how and when results will be published

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  TechUK paper urges industry to collaborate in closing the IT skills gap

  TechUK paper puts forward recommendations to government and industry on closer collaboration to close the IT skills shortfall

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  Bright Little Labs inspires children through Detective Dot role model

  Interactive books aim to inspire a generation of coders to investigate where possessions come from and how they’re made

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Computer Weekly reveals the 50 most influential women in UK IT 2015

  This year's list of the 50 most influential women in UK IT has been revealed. Find out which female IT leaders are making a difference to the digital economy

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Most influential women in UK IT 2015: Rising stars

  Judges of most influential women in UK IT hail five females as rising stars. Special thanks to the Salesforce Foundation for extending their support to our 2015 Rising Stars

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Sungard follows Apple, Facebook and Microsoft's lead with Irish datacentre plans

  Sungard teams up with Digital Realty to create new Irish datacentre

• June 16, 2015 16 Jun'15

  BCSWomen hosts Guinness World Record attempt with marathon app-building event

  BCSWomen hosts app-building event to encourage over 1,000 young people to simultaneously build Android apps in a Guinness World Record attempt

• June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15

  Europe’s startups should collaborate like Silicon Valley firms

  Europe should take a leaf out of Silicon Valley’s book on openness and collaboration, according to speakers at Startup Village 2015

• June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15

  Apps for Good Awards 2015 finalists unveiled

  18 student teams are to face an expert judging panel in the Apps for Good final ceremony held at the Barbican, London

• June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15

  John Lewis incubator sees first round of second-year pitches

  More than 20 startups have presented their pitches to John Lewis executives in the first round of this year’s Jlab accelerator

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  HMRC looks for transformation partner ahead of Aspire end

  HMRC is seeking transformational help ahead of the demise of its Aspire contract in 2017.

• June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15

  Most Influential Women in UK IT - introducing the Hall of Fame

  Computer Weekly has launched its Most Influential Women in UK IT Hall of Fame to recognise lifetime achievement

• May 26, 2015 26 May'15

  Civil Servants point to lack of skills as barrier to IT procurement

  Adoption of IT for public services is held back due to a lack of skills, despite civil servants agreeing IT is a necessity, according to techUK

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  Government cloud adoption hit by ongoing legacy tech investments

  IT supplier Eduserv wants government departments banned from investing in legacy tech to drive up cloud adoption

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  GDS will not scale locally with continued bespoke approach

  If the Government Digital Service (GDS) continues to develop bespoke digital services, the progress it has made to date will not scale at a local level, Eddie Copeland, head of technology at the Policy Exchange, has warned

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Reflect Digital founder shares road to success

  Founder of Kent-based digital agency shares her journey from a £3k business to £500k

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  Socitm to launch women in IT network

  Society of Information Technology Management on the hunt for partners to help launch women in IT network

• May 15, 2015 15 May'15

  Joanna Shields appointed junior minister

  Former Tech City CEO Joanna Shields appointed parliamentary under secretary of state at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

• May 12, 2015 12 May'15

  Former nurse’s career blighted after blowing whistle on IT problems

  Southwark's continuing care database included names of patients who had been dead for several years, a tribunal is told

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  CA Technologies rallies workforce to support younger generation

  CA Technologies launches Europe-wide programme to get workforce behind closing the Stem skills gap

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  Selling tech as a lifestyle will attract more females says HDS

  Dev Patel of HDS says we need to sell the lifestyle of the tech industry to appeal to more women

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  Temp and permanent IT staff still in demand, reveals KPMG report

  KPMG report shows IT sector has third-strongest demand for staff out of nine industries

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  CIO interview: Darrell Stein, vice-president of information systems at Reckitt Benckiser

  Seven months after taking charge of IT at Reckitt Benckiser, Darrell Stein is pushing ahead with a strategy to increase digital revenues

• May 05, 2015 05 May'15

  IT staff on the rise despite slow business volume growth rate

  New business volumes rise at slowest rate since mid-2013 but hiring predictions for technology staff are on the up

• April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15

  Met Police offers up to almost £200,000 for CIO role

  The Metropolitan Police is offering up to almost £200,000 to fill its CIO position, which has been open since February 2015

• April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15

  30% Club launches technology group

  30% Club adds technology arm, which will be chaired by Melissa Di Donato of Salesforce

• April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15

  Animator Ashling Lindsay crowned UK’s coolest techie

  Pink Bottle Productions founder wins title of UK’s coolest techie as selected by student judging panel

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  Finland is the place to be for ICT

  Finland stands out as the top country in ICT, according to the European Commission Digital Economy and Society Index

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  UK startups facing too many challenges, say entrepreneurs

  Startups need more support if London’s digital economy is to develop, according to business leaders at Westminster Policy Forum

• April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15

  Cyber security boot camp launched to boost skills

  Sans Cyber Academy unveils eight-week security boot camp after businesses demand more cyber security specialists

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  UBS innovation lab moves into Level39

  Level39 will host the UBS innovation lab to support fintech startups

• April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15

  Martha Lane Fox unveils Dot Everyone

  Lane Fox uses Dimbleby Lecture to reveal national institution idea putting women at the heart of the technology sector

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  More than a fifth of world’s billionaires studied engineering at university

  Approved Index analysis finds 22% of Forbes’ 100 rich list studied engineering at university

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Photo editing app firm BeFunky transforms into female-weighted team

  Photo editing app company BeFunky set out to recruit the best talent it could find and unintentionally landed a team largely comprising women

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  IT priorities 2015 – IT budgets on the rise as economy recovers

  Almost three-quarters of IT managers in the UK expect their IT budgets to increase or stay the same in 2015

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Women have a big part to play in the future of the fintech industry

  International Women’s Day sparks debate around the lack of females holding board-level positions in the fintech sector and elsewhere

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  Mobile devices better suited for digitally excluded

  Digitally excluded find tablets and smartphones easier to use and more intuitive, according to Tinder Foundation and Vodafone UK report

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  BIS sets out to assist development of digital sharing economy

  The government has set out a number of proposals to assist in the development of the £9bn trade body Sharing Economy UK

• March 13, 2015 13 Mar'15

  Japan recruits hackers for cyber security force

  The Japanese government plans to recruit hackers to identify and protect against cyber security threats

• March 10, 2015 10 Mar'15

  Wise chair Trudy Norris-Grey urges greater awareness of roles for women in IT

  Chair of Wise Trudy Norris-Grey talks to Computer Weekly about raising awareness of opportunities for women in technology

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  HSBC names replacement CIO for investment bank

  HSBC has named the replacement for the departing CIO of its global banking and markets division, with an internal promotion filling the gap

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Smart meter project in danger of outright failure, government warned

  A report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee has warned that plans to install smart meters across the UK by 2020 are veering off-track

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  HSBC seeks new investment banking CIO as Sumeet Chabria leaves

  HSBC is looking for a new IT head in its investment banking arm after Sumeet Chabria decided to leave after 21 years at the bank

• March 02, 2015 02 Mar'15

  Lean IT Association unveils lean certification

  LITA reveals Lean IT Certification Scheme for training providers wanting to teach the principles of Lean

• March 02, 2015 02 Mar'15

  Government gives green light for Northern Futures UTC

  George Osborne unveils plan for Northern Futures University Technical College to boost IT and healthcare science careers in north-east of England

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  Austin, San Francisco and Tel Aviv revealed as top tech cities

  Austin, San Francisco and Tel Aviv have been ranked as top cities for tech companies, Savills report reveals