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• June 27, 2018 27 Jun'18

  BBC launches online archive for 1980s Computer Literacy Project

  Archive will enable people to read up on a 10-year project developed by the BBC in the 1980s

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Mayor Khan bids to make London the world’s smartest city

  At London Tech Week, mayor Sadiq Khan launched a city-wide initiative to harness the capital’s technology talent to address London’s most pressing problems

• June 01, 2018 01 Jun'18

  BBC to show World Cup in virtual reality

  Broadcaster will trial virtual reality and ultra HD live streams of the FIFA World Cup through BBC iPlayer and a dedicated VR app

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Salary is the biggest motivator for software developers

  A survey finds that benefits such as free food and drink or a modern office space are not the main motivator for most developers, with the majority prioritising a higher salary

• May 23, 2018 23 May'18

  Marks and Spencer speeds up digital transformation plans as profits plunge

  Retailer announces plans to accelerate its business transformation and close 100 stores by 2022 after continued shifts in consumer behaviour

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  Tesco announces closure of non-food website Tesco Direct

  Supermarket giant Tesco has announced it will be closing its Tesco Direct website, which focuses on the sale of non-food-related products

• May 21, 2018 21 May'18

  UK government promises laws to police 'Wild West Internet'

  UK government plans laws to make online activity safer after green paper reveals more needs to be done to protect citizens

• May 16, 2018 16 May'18

  Nordic banks plan major digital transformation of operations

  Banks in the Nordic region are set to accelerate their spending on technology as digital services take-up accelerates

• May 02, 2018 02 May'18

  Finnish government launches regional digitisation plan

  Finland’s government allocates €400m to support digital projects run by the country’s local authorities

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  Digital economy research projects to get funding

  Research projects aimed at building trust, privacy and security in the use of personal data and digital technologies are to receive funding

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  Stoke-on-Trent websites found to be most leaky ahead of GDPR

  The majority of websites in the UK could be prone to cyber attacks, a security scan across 135,035 sites has revealed

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  Telcos see multiple paths to internet of things revenue

  A report from Ericsson has revealed that telecoms operators are testing out multiple routes to monetising the IoT

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  Estonia’s digital residency programme faces first headwind

  The Baltic country’s programme to offer anyone, anywhere a chance to run a company online is facing its first crisis

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  CIO interview: Richard Tallboy, CIO, Wagamama

  Richard Tallboy, CIO of pan-Asian restaurant chain Wagamama, explains why the firm adopted “pay by walking out” technology

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  Twilio offers IoT developers programmable mobile connectivity

  Developers of internet of things applications and devices will be able to use the Twilio Programmable Wireless mobile communications platform to build mobile connectivity into their services

• April 16, 2018 16 Apr'18

  Fintech sector increasingly attractive compared to traditional banking for IT professionals

  Fintech job vacancies are growing, while less are being advertised in traditional banking sector companies

• April 05, 2018 05 Apr'18

  IR35 reforms: Calls for inquiry into pre-launch tests of HMRC IR35 assessment tool

  HM Revenue & Customs hits back at contractors who claim it failed to test its online IR35 status assessment tool rigorously enough in the run-up to its launch in March 2017, as calls for an inquiry into its dev and test procedures grow

• March 24, 2018 24 Mar'18

  Government must improve quality and awareness of childcare website, say MPs

  Treasury Committee says government should launch websites only when they can cope with the expected workload, after childcare website was down for 160 hours last summer

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Danish government launches business-focused national digital strategy

  Denmark’s government has launched a plan to get more small businesses into the digital economy as it targets being a leader in advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Dutch cycling culture pumps up bicycle startups

  Bike-sharing services are cropping up in urban areas of the Netherlands but the government wants to restrict their number

• March 15, 2018 15 Mar'18

  Tesco appoints new chief technology officer

  Supermarket giant’s new CTO joins from Airbus and will continue to implement retailer’s digital transformation programme

• March 13, 2018 13 Mar'18

  Retailers need to prepare properly before AI adoption, say experts

  Artificial intelligence can help many areas of the retail landscape, but retailers should make sure they prepare before taking on AI adoption, says an expert panel

• March 12, 2018 12 Mar'18

  World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to fix the web’s bugs

  Too much of the web and people’s personal data is under the control of a handful of mega-corporations. Is there a better way?

• March 09, 2018 09 Mar'18

  Modern retail: machine learning, customer experience and legacy

  As the retail landscape shifts in the wake of new technologies, experts in retail and tech explain how firms need to adapt to cater for modern consumers

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Amazon contemplating next move in banking sector

  Amazon is in talks with a bank about setting up a current account that will appeal to young people

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  People at risk of psychological side-effects of screen addiction

  Many Brits spend more than 10 hours a day attached to a screen and 60% look at two at once, research shows

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  Virgin Money launches digital bank

  Virgin Money is setting up a digital bank to expand into the current account and SME business account markets

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  Estonia wants to introduce special visa for digital nomads

  Baltic state’s next digital development could be a visa targeted at people who work online and are location independent

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  MWC 2018: Samsung Galaxy S9 launch kicks off annual mobile festival

  Samsung has raised the curtain on Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona with the launch of a new flagship Galaxy S9 smartphone device

• February 23, 2018 23 Feb'18

  RBS’s first profit in a decade accompanied by major first for mobile channel

  News of its first profit in 10 years might overshadow a major first for the Royal Bank of Scotland’s mobile channel

• February 19, 2018 19 Feb'18

  Take-up of chatbots will accelerate over next two years

  Chatbots and artificial intelligence are becoming an increasingly important part of customer services

• February 08, 2018 08 Feb'18

  Universal Credit business case still not approved as concerns continue over digital service

  MPs reveal internal project reviews that show full business case yet to be approved and ongoing worries over digital system for welfare reform programme

• 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 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

• January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18

  CIO interview: Vlassios Rizopoulos, CTO, Pricesearcher.com

  CTO of independent online search engine Pricesearcher.com explains how it uses big data and high-performance computing to cater to customers who use price as the deciding factor for their purchase

• January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  Mastercard sets biometric ID deadline for banks

  Mastercard has committed to guaranteeing that every one of its customers will have access to biometric authentication services by April 2019

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Google puts its payment services under one roof

  Internet giant is bringing all its payment services under the Google Pay brand, making them “simpler, safer and more consistent”

• December 22, 2017 22 Dec'17

  Air New Zealand to trial digital translation technology

  Airline becomes one of the first companies to try out a business case for Google's real-time translation technology

• December 13, 2017 13 Dec'17

  Banks forced to be open about major security and operational incidents

  New FCA rules aim to give consumers more information about current accounts beyond interest rates and charges

• December 12, 2017 12 Dec'17

  Startups and corporations mingle at Finland’s Slush tech event

  Startup events are becoming rich hunting grounds for large enterprises looking for the platforms of the future

• November 27, 2017 27 Nov'17

  Norway’s print media responds to digital threats

  Subscription-based models are among the tactics being deployed by Norway’s print media organisations as they react to the digital threat to their traditional income streams

• November 22, 2017 22 Nov'17

  HSBC recruits CIO from Google

  HSBC has recruited a CIO from Google as it seeks to continue to digitise its retail banking services

• November 10, 2017 10 Nov'17

  CIOs admit digital transformation strategy will not be fully implemented

  Research by Vanson Bourne, on behalf of HCL, shows that the majority of CIOs doubt digital transformation strategies will be fully put into effect

• October 20, 2017 20 Oct'17

  The 5G wheels are spinning in APAC

  Adoption of 5G across the Asia-Pacific region will be led by China, South Korea and Japan, but telcos will need to find the right pricing strategy to compete with IoT connectivity upstarts

• October 16, 2017 16 Oct'17

  How technology is transforming healthcare delivery in Gulf region

  IT will transform the healthcare sector in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries over the coming years

• October 13, 2017 13 Oct'17

  JLab 2017 retail startups describe tackling retail’s biggest challenges

  This year’s cohort of retail startups in the JLab accelerator describe the retail challenges their businesses face and how the 2017 JLab differs from the rest

• October 11, 2017 11 Oct'17

  Dubai Police launches Fajwa to streamline staff recruitment

  Dubai police are improving recruitment processes through new system announced at Gitex 2017

• October 11, 2017 11 Oct'17

  Tech investments key as European utility firms struggle

  Utilities need to get their IT investments right if they are to regain and retain lost market share and boost revenue

• October 09, 2017 09 Oct'17

  UAE’s Mashreq launches digital-only bank

  The UAE’s oldest bank has launched a digital-only offering, designed to appeal to the tech-savvy generation

• October 03, 2017 03 Oct'17

  Tech entrepreneur aims to take digital skills to refugees

  Tech entrepreneur Emma Sinclair hopes to raise £150,000 to run an education programme for displaced young people in a Unicef programme that aims to develop skills that might otherwise be lost

• September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17

  UK spending on subscription services triples in a year

  Almost all UK adults subscribe to services for products they would traditionally pay for up front

• September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17

  Connected bees create a buzz at Manchester startup hub

  Cisco and Manchester Science Partnerships have opened a new startup incubator in the city to foster innovation in the Northern Powerhouse, and the humble honeybee is taking centre stage

• September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17

  BMW opens its second tech startup programme in the UK

  BMW has launched its latest programme to support tech startups in the UK

• September 15, 2017 15 Sep'17

  Banks across Europe cut thousands of staff and branches as IT replaces them

  Banks across Europe cut jobs and close thousands of branches as IT shakes the industry

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Equifax confirms massive data breach was result of missed patch

  Equifax appears to have failed to roll out a patch that might have stopped the massive breach of its systems

• August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17

  Ocado launches voice-driven shopping app for Amazon Alexa

  Online supermarket’s Amazon Echo application aims to give consumers a simple, seamless retail experience

• August 23, 2017 23 Aug'17

  HMRC admits 2,600 parents affected by childcare website problems

  Technical issues while applying for new childcare benefits caused problems for some parents – but HMRC says only 1% were affected

• August 15, 2017 15 Aug'17

  Hulu joins the BBC, Channel 4 and Netflix in opting to run its streaming services on AWS

  US streaming firm Hulu is opting out of investing in its own datacentres by moving more of its workloads to the AWS public cloud

• August 10, 2017 10 Aug'17

  CIO interview: Daniel Gebler, chief technology officer, Picnic

  The Netherlands has the highest supermarket density in the world, yet a technology company has been able to gain market share from the established order

• August 09, 2017 09 Aug'17

  Nordic countries top digital nations ranking, but risk stalling

  Nordic countries are leaders when it comes to digitisation – but they must continue to innovate to retain their position

• August 04, 2017 04 Aug'17

  MPs demand answers from HMRC over Childcare Service website problems

  Treasury committee chair Nicky Morgan writes to HM Revenue & Customs CEO after users reported difficulties using the new digital service

• July 27, 2017 27 Jul'17

  Sky to create 300 tech jobs to bolster capabilities of streaming services

  Broadcasting giant outlines plans to ramp up its software engineering capabilities in the face of growing competition

• July 27, 2017 27 Jul'17

  Facebook share price hits record high

  Social networking giant reports revenue up 45% and profits up 71% in second quarter compared with Q2 2016, as share price hits $173

• July 25, 2017 25 Jul'17

  National Army Museum uses Tide for future personalisation plans

  Following renovations to its physical space, the National Army Museum used Talisman’s Tide platform to integrate its current systems and allow for personalisation in the future

• July 24, 2017 24 Jul'17

  Tesco expands reach for same-day grocery delivery

  Supermarket retailer Tesco announces it will be extending its offering of same-day delivery for groceries to across the UK

• July 18, 2017 18 Jul'17

  Interview: How consumer tech retail is transforming to meet demands of Generation Y

  Technology retailers are transforming their operations in line with the preferences of young tech-savvy consumers and business users

• July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17

  UK ranked as top 10 digital economy

  The UK has been ranked among the top 10 nations in terms of digital capabilities

• July 06, 2017 06 Jul'17

  Uber puts the brakes on in Finland until 2018

  App-based car transportation company has stopped providing one of its services in Finland until next year

• June 30, 2017 30 Jun'17

  Dreamscape to merge with Singapore hosting provider in regional expansion

  The Australian hosting provider will tap Vodien’s infrastructure to address the needs of mobile-first businesses in Southeast Asia that are going online for the first time

• June 29, 2017 29 Jun'17

  App-based banking continues its ascent in the UK

  The number of people banking from their mobile phones is increasing as more services are made available through the channel

• June 26, 2017 26 Jun'17

  Middle East retailers urged to embrace e-commerce platforms

  E-commerce in the Middle East makes up a tiny proportion of the region's GDP, but this will change as Amazon stokes the market

• June 26, 2017 26 Jun'17

  AA blames password reset email glitch on ‘internal error’

  Automobile Association apologises for sending out password reset confirmation emails to a small selection of customers in error, which led some to assume the company may have been hacked

• June 22, 2017 22 Jun'17

  Waitrose joins John Lewis for Jlab 2017

  The 2017 JLab will see Waitrose, John Lewis and JLP Ventures band together to mentor and develop several retail technology startups

• June 14, 2017 14 Jun'17

  Gatwick and six other airports to hold international hackathon

  Trans-global hackathon aims to develop applications to improve air passenger experience

• June 12, 2017 12 Jun'17

  London Tech Week: Brexit won’t harm London tech sector, says city’s mayor

  London mayor Sadiq Khan opens London Tech Week and says Brexit will not hold back the city's growing tech sector

• June 08, 2017 08 Jun'17

  Green Party wins the race for digital performance

  Benchmark tests on the political parties’ websites shows the Green Party on top, with the Liberal Democrats bottom of the rankings for response times

• June 07, 2017 07 Jun'17

  Many non-voters would vote if they could do it online

  An online voting system would increase turnout in general elections if it was available in the UK

• June 01, 2017 01 Jun'17

  Shopping centre giant Intu launches startup incubator programme

  Intu has partnered with L Marks to launch a startup incubator programme to help advance UK retail and cater to modern consumer habits

• May 26, 2017 26 May'17

  Estonian e-Residency programme partners Finnish tech startup

  Government’s partnership with fintech firm Holvi aims to provide online business banking services to entrepreneurs who take up eResidency

• May 24, 2017 24 May'17

  Dubai financial services regulator launches temporary licence aimed at fintechs

  Dubai is making it easier for financial technology companies to test out their ideas through a temporary licence

• May 24, 2017 24 May'17

  Twenty years of online banking has increased financial awareness

  Online banking is helping people manage their finances better and reduce their debt as a result

• May 17, 2017 17 May'17

  Smart Dubai works with United Nations on smart cities index

  Dubai is becoming a world leader in smart city developments and international organisations want to tap its experience

• May 16, 2017 16 May'17

  Customer experience transformation at Macquarie bank brings legacy system retirement as a bonus

  Australia’s Macquarie bank builds a data layer on top of legacy IT systems to transform customer experience

• May 15, 2017 15 May'17

  Toys R Us introduces tablets for store staff

  Toy and games retailer Toys R Us is trialling the use of tablets for store assistance to provide a better customer service experience

• May 11, 2017 11 May'17

  Made.com trialling real-time chat for customer advice

  Online retailer Made.com has partnered with Hero so showroom staff can chat live with online shoppers to help with queries and shopping decisions

• May 11, 2017 11 May'17

  Paymentless retail could be the future, says Barclaycard VP of strategy and innovation

  The ideal in-store customer experience would be for payments to be an invisible part of the shopping process, says Barclaycard’s vice-president of strategy and innovation

• May 11, 2017 11 May'17

  London will lose its European tech leadership status because of Brexit

  London is at risk of being usurped as the tech capital of Europe because of the UK's impending withdrawal from the benefits of EU membership

• May 11, 2017 11 May'17

  Addison Lee uses common customer transport tech to offer luxury couriering

  Addison Lee is well known for being a business-focused private hire firm in and around London, but as competition has increased the firm has refocused its use of tech to provide courier services to customers and retailers

• May 03, 2017 03 May'17

  Mayor of London seeks chief digital officer

  Capital’s first-ever chief digital officer will oversee the digital transformation of public services across London

• May 02, 2017 02 May'17

  ‘Internet terrorist’ Samata Ullah jailed for eight years

  Samata Ullah, an unemployed resident of Cardiff, has been sentenced after pleading guilty to five terrorism offences

• March 30, 2017 30 Mar'17

  UK insurtech startups follow fintech example

  UK startups focused on technology for insurance companies saw capital investments double last year

• March 22, 2017 22 Mar'17

  PostNord cutting up to 4,000 Danish jobs in response to digitisation

  Logistics firm PostNord is set to cut jobs in Denmark due to falling mail volumes in the country, with a new production model set to be introduced

• March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17

  Half of banks think more payments will be via fintechs by 2020

  Fintechs have gone from being an emerging threat to banks to an opportunity for collaboration, according to an EIU report

• March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17

  Nordea goes beyond what is mandatory for PSD2

  Nordic bank prepares for the introduction of the latest banking regulations through a platform that is open to third parties

• March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17

  Digital commerce makes up less than 1% of GDP in Middle East

  Region sees double-digit growth in consumer use of digital channels, but businesses seem reluctant to get involved

• March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17

  Abu Dhabi finance regulator pens fintech agreement with Singapore central bank

  The financial services regulator in Abu Dhabi is co-operating with its counterpart in Singapore to promote financial technology developments

• March 01, 2017 01 Mar'17

  Over 100 Norwegian banks join forces in mobile payments

  Nordic banks form an alliance on mobile payments and take over the Vipps platform

• February 23, 2017 23 Feb'17

  Starling Bank opens API with hackathon

  Challenger bank Starling opens its API up to developers in hackathon at Google’s London Campus

• February 22, 2017 22 Feb'17

  Virtual reality takes off in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries

  There is a thriving virtual reality industry in the Middle East, with the technology's application expected to go far beyond gaming

• February 22, 2017 22 Feb'17

  All RBS and NatWest branches to have a technology expert

  RBS Group is putting a digital expert in every NatWest and RBS branch in 2017