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June 09, 2016
09
Jun'16
Bahrain IT hub could increase choice for Middle East organisations
The Bahrain government is trying to create an IT industry with global ambitions that could increase options for CIOs in the wider Middle East region
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June 07, 2016
07
Jun'16
Internet traffic to triple by 2020, says Cisco
The latest edition of Cisco’s Visual Networking Index predicts a near tripling of internet traffic during the coming years as more than a billion people come online
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June 07, 2016
07
Jun'16
Fintech poised to revolutionise banking in the Middle East
The Middle East has been slow to join the fintech revolution, but there is an opportunity for CIOs to help banks stride ahead as demand picks up
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June 02, 2016
02
Jun'16
Finland to deploy national Sigfox IoT network
Internet of things service provider Sigfox has announced plans to extend its global network across Finland by 2017
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June 02, 2016
02
Jun'16
Server shipments fall as firms use cloud and virtualisation to cut hardware costs
Gartner’s latest global server sales tracker highlights the toll that cloud and virtualisation are taking on the market
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May 26, 2016
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May'16
Healthtech brand Qardio adopts NetSuite OneWorld
Qardio, a brand offering health technology devices, wanted an ERP system to deal with billing, accounting and taxes in different regions of the world
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May 26, 2016
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May'16
Cortex helps football charity kick off translatable website
Homeless World Cup’s new website will help homeless people around the world improve their lives through football tournaments
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May 25, 2016
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May'16
EC sets out proposals for online platform regulation
The European Commission has outlined a number of proposals to better regulate the operation of online platforms in the Digital Single Market
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May 23, 2016
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May'16
Singapore retailer shifts IT infrastructure to the cloud
Challenger is moving its IT infrastructure to the cloud to enable it to respond better to business growth
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May 20, 2016
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May'16
HumanOps calls for improved working conditions for infrastructure operations staff
The pressure of delivering 24/7 support to IT infrastructure is taking its toll on the people tasked with caring for it, warns HumanOps advocates
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May 20, 2016
20
May'16
CIO Interview: Esa Viitamäki, Posti Group
IT demands and a changing market prompted Finland’s state-owned postal provider to transform itself
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May 17, 2016
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May'16
BBC Three builds second base in Birmingham
The BBC announces plans to develop a second Birmingham-based headquarters for BBC Three
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May 12, 2016
12
May'16
Future Retail Contest: Using tech to tackle retail’s biggest problems
IC Tomorrow’s Future Retail Contest aims to help the retail industry tackle some of its business issues by leveraging retail-focused startups
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May 10, 2016
10
May'16
Nordea Bank launches crowdfunding platform in Finland
The Nordic financial services group offers a technology bringing together investors and startup businesses
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May 10, 2016
10
May'16
Nominet offers bacon sarnies to get UK tradespeople online
UK domain name registrar Nominet launches a campaign, and opens its own greasy spoon café, to try to get more of the UK’s tradespeople online
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May 09, 2016
09
May'16
Singapore smart city chief delivers vision to the world
The Singapore government minister running the city state's smart nation project tells the world about the country’s smart nation vision
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May 06, 2016
06
May'16
Ford to invest $182m in PaaS firm Pivotal to support connected car push
Ford steps up involvement with Pivotal, and sets out plans to expand the use of Pivotal’s software development kit across its IT and product development teams
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May 05, 2016
05
May'16
Visa chooses Singapore for its first innovation centre in Asia
Visa opens its first innovation centre outside of the US to work with partners and customers to develop payment technology for the Southeast Asian market
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May 05, 2016
05
May'16
Interview: Jenny Buchar, e-commerce operations manager, Skullcandy
Fashion headphone retailer’s e-commerce operations manager talks about website re-platforming and hiring brand representatives
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May 04, 2016
04
May'16
Quarter of banks will use startups to replace legacy IT
A quarter of banks will go to financial technology suppliers for their online and mobile banking requirements by 2020
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April 28, 2016
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Apr'16
Apple Pay gets a million new users a week but profit remains elusive
Apple's mobile payments service is popular with consumers and banks but the company has yet to find ways to make 'meaningful' money from it
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April 26, 2016
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Apr'16
CIO interview: Simon Kerry, Charles Tyrwhitt
CIO of men's clothing retailer Charles Tyrwhitt talks omni-channel and discusses the firm’s move away from a bespoke e-commerce system to the Demandware platform
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April 26, 2016
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Apr'16
Interview: John Hazen, senior vice-president of direct to customer, True Religion
True Religion’s senior vice-president of direct to customer, John Hazen, discusses the US clothing retailer’s plans for loyalty, simplicity and the pursuit of a single customer record
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April 25, 2016
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Apr'16
Indonesian internet users turn to smartphones to go online
Organisations with a cyber footprint in Indonesia must understand most internet users in the country access online content and services on smartphones
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April 22, 2016
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Apr'16
Nordic corporations open their doors to tech startups
Traditional Nordic corporations are starting to take advantage of the vibrant startup community in the region, and they are changing the way they think
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April 18, 2016
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Apr'16
The secrets of Nordic fintech boost
London has become the undisputed European capital for financial technology, but the Nordic countries have strong ambitions to challenge for the number one spot
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April 18, 2016
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Apr'16
The Middle East’s home-grown app market now really growing, but from a low base
Despite massive smartphone penetration, native app developers in the region need to listen more closely to what locals want
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April 15, 2016
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Apr'16
BBC turns micro:bit computers into IoT devices
The BBC and Nominet demonstrate a new use case for the micro:bit computer and hope to turn Britain’s schoolchildren into internet of things pioneers
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April 14, 2016
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Apr'16
IBM and Oracle fortunes hit by rapid growth of PaaS, Gartner claims
Gartner’s application infrastructure market tracker reveals how PaaS growth is shaking up the supplier landscape
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April 14, 2016
14
Apr'16
Social media could be used to identify refugees, says fintech founder
A panel at the Innovate Finance Summit 2016 discussed ways refugees could access funds, including digital identities, smartphones and peer-to-peer applications
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April 11, 2016
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Apr'16
UK’s Daily Mail publisher eyes Yahoo’s assets
The Daily Mail parent company is putting together a bid for Yahoo’s news properties that would increase its US presence significantly
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April 05, 2016
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Apr'16
Two-thirds of farmers didn’t need to use ‘digital by default’ rural payments system
Internal review produced by Defra reveals full catalogue of errors that led to the withdrawal of the digital farm subsidy system in 2015
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March 30, 2016
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Mar'16
CIO interview: Retail’s past a poor guide to future, says Paul Coby of John Lewis
Paul Coby, IT director at John Lewis, believes retailers will need to move with changing customer patterns and demands to survive the omni-channel shift
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March 29, 2016
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Mar'16
Sweden’s central bank puts brake on cash-free society
Sweden has been on a fast track to become the world’s first cashless society, but now its central bank is stamping on the brakes
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March 29, 2016
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Mar'16
DNB to close 59 branches in Norway as online banking dominates
Norwegian bank DNB is closing branches and cutting jobs as more customers move to digital channels
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March 21, 2016
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Mar'16
Singapore and Malaysia most aware of gap in IT availability
The gap between IT availability and what users want is clear to organisations in Singapore and Malaysia, according to a global study
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March 16, 2016
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Mar'16
Fintechs want to take one-third of traditional banks’ business
Banks know they could lose large chunks of business to fintech firms, but if the challengers have their way, it will be more than expected
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March 16, 2016
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Mar'16
JD Williams uses analytics to move from mail order to omni-channel
JD Williams’ head of web analytics explains how the firm is using data to provide a personalised experience for customers
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March 14, 2016
14
Mar'16
New UK law will criminalise failure to hack on demand
MPs have been given only two weeks to read 1,200 pages of documents which disclose new powers to require technology companies to install secret surveillance capabilities in software, computer equipment or networks
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March 11, 2016
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Mar'16
Technology and new finance firms will test banking industry
UK bankers now think fintech is a bigger issue than regulatory change, according to a study
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March 10, 2016
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Mar'16
Equinix taps into Open Compute Project to build open source datacentre ecosystem
Technology produced by Facebook-backed Open Compute Project gets snapped up by datacentre operator Equinix
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March 09, 2016
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Mar'16
Challenger bank buys digital gaming specialist
Challenger bank Atom buys gaming expertise business Grasp to develop its online customer interfaces
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March 08, 2016
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Mar'16
Gartner warns IT leaders about the perils of using private platform as a service
Industry watcher Gartner warns IT leaders pursuing a private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) strategy to build cloud apps could be in for disappointment
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March 02, 2016
02
Mar'16
Virtual insanity: Is 2016 the year users go big on VR?
At Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, virtual reality appeared to emerge as a technology that is at long last hot to trot – but is it still a lot of virtual hype?
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March 01, 2016
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Mar'16
Record UK cash withdrawals, but is it just a stay of execution?
The amount of cash withdrawn from UK ATMs last year was up on the previous year despite the arrival of technology-enabled alternatives
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March 01, 2016
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Mar'16
Buckinghamshire Council frees transport data to create smart suburbs
Local authority has partnered with IoT platform developer InterDigital to establish a county-wide smart transport model
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February 29, 2016
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Feb'16
Global finance regulator to examine fintech risks
Global financial system stability group FSB will take a closer look at financial technology companies
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February 26, 2016
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Feb'16
Londoners lead mobile banking switch
People in London are the most likely to manage their finances using a smartphone, according to a survey of consumers in England and Wales
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February 26, 2016
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Feb'16
Tech Nordic Advocates partners with Nordic Startup Conference
Tech Nordic Advocates, sister organisation of startup group Tech London Advocates, is partnering with the Nordic Startup Conference show in Copenhagen in March
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February 26, 2016
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Feb'16
We Are Colony: Tackling the death of traditional film and abundance of content
Founder of content streaming platform We Are Colony explains why the film industry should be making the most of digital content to provide the best experience for modern consumers
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February 18, 2016
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Feb'16
Alternative finance sector accounts for £3.2bn investments in UK
Alternative online finance provided 3% of lending to SMEs and 13% of lending to small businesses last year, but overall growth rate slowed
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February 17, 2016
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Feb'16
Middle East telecoms operators face up to IoT smart city challenges
As smart city initiatives spring up in the Middle East, telecoms operators contend with the strain of the internet of things (IoT) on networks
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February 17, 2016
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Feb'16
BBC Three moves online-only as broadcaster embraces digital audience
The BBC channel aimed at younger viewers, BBC Three, broadcast its last night as a TV channel before moving to online-only viewing
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February 15, 2016
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Feb'16
Peer-to-peer lender wants to acquire traditional mortgage firm
LendInvest suggests acquisition could help it become “the biggest mortgage lender in the country”
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February 15, 2016
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Feb'16
Singapore restructures infocomm and media agencies
Singapore government merges its ICT and media agencies in recognition of their overlapping responsibilities
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February 15, 2016
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Feb'16
Sweden’s NFT Ventures looks to Finland for fintech startups
Swedish startup fund that targets financial technology developers has expanded its reach into Finland
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February 11, 2016
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Feb'16
Digital internships in India with TCS now open to UK graduates
India’s biggest IT supplier, Tata Consultancy Services, plans to recruit 1,000 UK graduates for paid internships over the next four years
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February 10, 2016
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Feb'16
MK:Smart enlists IoT supplier ThingWorx for speedy development
Milton Keynes smart city project selects ThingWorx to provide a rapid application deployment environment
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February 10, 2016
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Feb'16
Finnish construction company YIT opens a virtual IT test lab
Finnish construction company YIT has opened a lab to allow its staff test out their digital ideas
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February 09, 2016
09
Feb'16
Banks should allow open data sharing to help customers compare services
The Open Banking Working Group has suggested information about products and customer transaction data should be open to improve service comparison and drive competition
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February 05, 2016
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Feb'16
CIO interview: Kevin O’Connor, group CIO, William Hill
Former Paddy Power CIO aims to bring IT development work back in-house and use technology to improve customers’ betting experience
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February 05, 2016
05
Feb'16
ABN Amro reacts to demand for Snapchat customer support
Dutch bank is widening its social media-based channels by communicating with customers using Snapchat
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February 04, 2016
04
Feb'16
Google’s Chrome to flag deceptive embedded content
Browser will warn of any embedded content such as ads that pretend to act like, and look and feel like, a trusted entity
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February 02, 2016
02
Feb'16
WhatsApp reaches one billion user milestone
As the WhatsApp messaging service hits a new peak, Facebook plans to use it to make money by enabling businesses to communicate with customers
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January 28, 2016
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Jan'16
Facebook shares top $100 on bumper fourth quarter
Facebook's share price has risen above $100 in response to better than expected annual and fourth-quarter results for 2015
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January 27, 2016
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Online and mobile help Australian retailer JAX boost business
Australian tyre retailer JAX is transforming its business through online and mobile channels.
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January 26, 2016
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Jan'16
Could Sweden become the first cashless society?
Sweden is fast becoming a country where cash is on the periphery of payments, and some think it might be the first to become cashless
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January 26, 2016
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Jan'16
Challenger finance firms will kill only those banks that fail to evolve
It’s not doom and gloom for the UK’s traditional banks – as long as they can learn from fintech and transform themselves
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January 25, 2016
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Google pays HMRC £130m in tax deal
Google is to pay more UK tax in line with new rules – £130m, said to cover the last 10 years – but denies any wrongdoing in the past
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January 22, 2016
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Jan'16
Trinity Mirror Group taps into cloud, agile and microservices to boost web user experience
National and regional newspaper publishing group is using AWS and SOASTA's performance monitoring tools to improve the user experience for its online readers
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January 21, 2016
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Financial services regulators launch unit to help startup banks
UK finance industry regulators Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority have dedicated more resources to helping startup banks get up and running
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January 19, 2016
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Jan'16
NRF 2016: Consumer empowerment no fad, says M&S
Retailers treating consumer empowerment as a passing fad rather than a paradigm shift have got it wrong, says Marks & Spencer CMO
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January 12, 2016
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Jan'16
Personalisation could help customers forgive bad brand experiences
Customers like to feel brands know them personally, but many are suspicious of how companies use their data
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January 11, 2016
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Jan'16
Closer co-operation in Asean with ICT masterplan
Asean countries will work more closely together on the region’s latest plan for increasing the use and benefits of IT
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January 08, 2016
08
Jan'16
CIO Interview: The power of software to disrupt business processes
Finbarr Joy, CTO of William Hill, discusses the implications of low-cost, cloud-powered automation of business processes for the CIO
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January 06, 2016
06
Jan'16
Italy wakes up to new IoT opportunities
Organisations in Italy are investing in internet-connected technologies, with infrastructure providers building the underpinning networks
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January 06, 2016
06
Jan'16
Hungryhouse adopts Braintree payments
Takeaway ordering service seeks to make payments experience easier for customers
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January 05, 2016
05
Jan'16
HSBC suffers major online banking failure
HSBC customers unable to access online banking services as the UK bank suffers internal technical issue.
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January 05, 2016
05
Jan'16
Nominet Trust 100 tech for good list: The organisations driving change
Nominet Trust releases its annual guide of 100 organisations across the globe using technology to drive positive change
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January 05, 2016
05
Jan'16
Asean countries consider IoT for smart farming
Malaysia is leading the way when it comes to using internet of things technologies to improve agriculture
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January 04, 2016
04
Jan'16
Games developers to be in demand in 2016
The UK video games industry is set to grow over the next year, with more than 70% of employers planning to make new hires
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December 31, 2015
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Dec'15
Top 10 internet of things stories of 2015
2015 was the year the internet of things began to move from theory to widespread practice, and the fledgling industry shook off the millstone of connected kitchen appliances
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December 30, 2015
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Dec'15
CIO interview: Sam Lowe, Matchesfashion.com
Sam Lowe, CIO of online fashion retailer Matchesfashion.com, explains how a retailer can go from being 100% bricks and mortar to 80% online in the space of five years
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December 30, 2015
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Dec'15
Government calls on industry to develop UK digital strategy
The government turns to the public and industry for ideas on how to push forward the UK’s digital transformation
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December 23, 2015
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Dec'15
CIO interview: Henry Cohen, CIO, Telegraph Media Group
The newspaper publisher is developing an agile mindset in response to the growth of digital over printed publications
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December 23, 2015
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Dec'15
BBC CTO Matthew Postgate to head up technology division
Matthew Postgate, chief technology officer of the BBC, will take on a different role in April 2016 leading a new division for the firm
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December 23, 2015
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Dec'15
Top 10 APAC IT stories of 2015
The top 10 Computer Weekly articles about enterprise IT in the Asean and ANZ regions
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December 18, 2015
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Dec'15
More than a quarter of Brits bank on mobile, but branches still popular
More and more people in the UK are banking on their smartphones, but more than a third still visit branches regularly
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December 16, 2015
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Dec'15
Europe’s digital skills gap set to narrow over next five years
Forecast for 2020 suggests the shortage of skilled IT workers will not be as great as previously expected
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December 16, 2015
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Dec'15
Etihad Airways chooses Cognizant to support digital transformation
Airline aims to improve customer satisfaction by implementing programme of digital developments
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December 14, 2015
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Dec'15
HMRC launches digital personal tax accounts
HM Revenue & Customs has gone live with online personal tax accounts and has published a detailed plan on how to “make tax digital”
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December 11, 2015
11
Dec'15
HyperCat smart city venture sets up shop in India
UK government-backed HyperCat Consortium seeks Indian startups for Hyderabad-based incubator
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December 09, 2015
09
Dec'15
DHL opens Singapore centre for logistics technology innovation
DHL has opened a centre in Singapore to research technologies that can be used in the logistics industry
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December 08, 2015
08
Dec'15
Browsium helps IT check plug-ins
With increasing numbers of applications running in the browser it is much harder for IT managers to check what plug-ins are being used
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December 07, 2015
07
Dec'15
Australia launches plan to reduce reliance on natural resources
The Australian government has announced plans to reduce its dependency on industries that rely on natural resources and increase its activities in areas such as IT
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December 03, 2015
03
Dec'15
Veracode finds most web apps fail Owasp security check list
The findings of a report on critical vulnerabilities in most web applications is raising concerns over potential security vulnerabilities in millions of websites
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December 03, 2015
03
Dec'15
Disney joins Hour of Code to teach young people coding skills
Teaching initiative Hour of Code has teamed up with Disney to encourage children to create games with Star Wars characters – and learn coding skills along the way
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November 26, 2015
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Nov'15
Singapore leads Asean smart city push
Singapore is the Asean smart city project that stands out, but Thailand and Malaysian initiatives are gaining credit, according to IDC study
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November 26, 2015
26
Nov'15
Slush 2015 breaks records as Finland's startup scene flourishes
Finland's Slush startup event is one of the biggest in the world and this year was its biggest ever
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November 25, 2015
25
Nov'15
Only a quarter of banking professionals think incumbents are main competition
Banks are increasing their spending on IT that helps them win customers, as competition increases and fewer challenges are placed on them by regulation