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Tech in business
The latest insights into the business side of tech, from job developments to changing deployment strategies and beyond. We provide the business technology news you need to know, including future workforce changes, training and skills gaps, Innovations are transforming the way companies and their employees work, but is your company keeping up?
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20 Feb
CTO Talk: Q&A with Cloudflare’s John Graham-Cumming
From successfully petitioning the British Government to apologise for its persecution of Alan Turing to writing open-source email filtering program POPFile, John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, has an impressive track record in the programming space.
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18 Feb
Three in four businesses think they’ll lose revenue without digital transformation
Three quarters of organisations predict that their revenue will go down if digital transformation does not happen this year.
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17 Feb
Five new startups to watch in 2020: From rental to construction
Verdict’s regular roundup of innovative new startups for 2020 is back.
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14 Feb
‘Back up and chill’ every day, not just on Valentine’s Day
Data security isn’t just something on the mind of an IT professional in the workplace.
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13 Feb
CTO Talk: Q&A with Wrisk’s Alex Harin
Alex Harin is the chief technology officer at Wrisk, a mobile-first insurance company that has created a white-label platform used by firms in sectors ranging from automotive to retail.
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13 Feb
5 tips for leveraging automation to get consumers back in stores
In our always-on world, consumer expectations in retail have skyrocketed.
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12 Feb
Mobile World Congress has been cancelled
Mobile World Congress (MWC), the largest mobile event in the world, has been cancelled over coronavirus fears.
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12 Feb
MWC coronavirus cancellations: The companies that have withdrawn so far
UPDATE: GSMA has now been cancelled MWC due to the coronavirus.
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12 Feb
Rakuten becomes latest MWC dropout over coronavirus fears
Japanese technology giant Rakuten has become the latest company to cancel its attendance at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona 2020 over fears surrounding the novel coronavirus, now named Covid-19.
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11 Feb
McAfee withdraws from MWC 2020 over coronavirus concerns
Cybersecurity company McAfee has become the latest organisation to call off attending Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona 2020 over concerns relating to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
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11 Feb
UK tech salaries up 13% in 2019
UK tech salaries increased by 13% in 2019, making the technology sector the fastest growing in the country.
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10 Feb
Amazon withdraws from Mobile World Congress over coronavirus fears
Amazon has announced that it will not be attending Mobile World Congress later this month over coronavirus fears, becoming the latest big name to drop out of the event.
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10 Feb
Five key advantages for enterprises leveraging intelligent analytics
As organisations adopt a more data-centric approach to their business functions, easy-to-use, intelligent analytics tools become a necessity.
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7 Feb
Ericsson ditches MWC over coronavirus fears, in growing trend
Swedish tech giant Ericsson has become the latest in a string of high-profile companies to pull out of attending MWC Barcelona 2020 over fears related to the novel coronavirus.
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6 Feb
How the coronavirus could disrupt Apple’s supply chain
With the number of cases reaching 28,256, and the death toll rising to 565 people – the majority in mainland China – the World Health Organization has now declared the outbreak of novel coronavirus a global health emergency.
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6 Feb
CTO Talk: Q&A with Asset Control’s Mark Hermeling
Mark Hermeling is the chief technology officer at Asset Control, which provides data quality software solutions for financial data.
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3 Feb
As UK faces productivity slowdown, could RPA be the solution?
The UK is currently facing the biggest slowdown in productivity in 250 years, according to research from University of Sussex and Loughborough University.
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3 Feb
Microsoft Teams is down for users – here’s why
Communication and collaboration platform Microsoft Teams is down, with tech giant Microsoft confirming the outage after complaints from users.
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31 Jan
Five new startups to watch in 2020
With 2020 upon us, more businesses than ever are utilising cutting-edge technology to create innovative products, and there has been an influx of new startups in the tech scene, offering solutions to almost every problem imaginable.
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30 Jan
CTO Talk: Q&A with Sinch’s Jonas Lindeborg
Jonas Lindeborg is the CTO of Sinch, which provides a cloud communications platform to enable businesses to send mobile messages, voice and videos in seconds.
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27 Jan
Introducing Verdict Magazine: Bi-monthly enterprise technology must-reads
We are delighted to announce the launch of Verdict Magazine, a bi-monthly digital magazine on the must-read topics in enterprise technology.
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23 Jan
CTO Talk: Q&A with Druva’s Milind Borate
Milind Borate is the co-founder and CTO of Druva, which provides data protection and management for businesses.
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21 Jan
Why tech should be secondary during digital transformation
The pressure to pursue digital transformation is huge.
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17 Jan
Is IR35 another own goal in the fight for tech talent?
Despite congratulatory headlines of record investment into London startups, those involved in the nurture and scaleup of tech ventures share the view that the UK is becoming increasingly adept at shooting itself in the foot.
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16 Jan
25 best jobs in the UK for 2020 topped by tech role
The best jobs in the UK for 2020 have been revealed, with the position of enterprise architect taking the top spot.
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14 Jan
Five top tips for digital transformation beyond Slack
Digital transformation is an ongoing process for the average business that is likely to be a messy mix of legacy paper processes, in-person interactions, partially digitised systems, and wholly new online solutions to business problems.
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2 Jan
Work in 2020: Predictions on the evolution of the worker
As we step into the new year of 2020 and wave goodbye to what has been yet another year of technological evolution, we can only expect there to be even greater shifts in the way we work.
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1 Jan
These are the business ideas you should launch in 2020
As a new decade dawns, many will be looking for a fresh start by exploring business ideas to set the world alight in 2020.
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31 Dec
Coming to America: A European perspective on tech innovation
When I was growing up in Spain, while we were certainly encouraged to consider doing any number of things with our lives, we were never encouraged to become entrepreneurs.
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26 Dec
Five industries ready to embrace the future of networking
No matter what industry they operate in, progressive companies around the world all have one thing in common: they constantly look for ways of bringing people and technology closer together.