A European revenue tax on ‘Big Tech’ could hurt the companies it’s supposed to protect
Close ties between French and British Tech have never been more important. While Brexit discussions continue in Brussels and capitals around Europe…
A Chinese government-backed fund is investing in a “decentralised data economy” in Europe
A private equity fund backed by the Chinese government has unveiled plans to invest tens of millions of pounds in Western European startups seeking…
The week in public sector tech: the biggest tenders and awards (04/07)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive feature analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with data analysis firm T…
IBM snaps up new cloud contracts with six major European businesses
IBM has snapped up new cloud contracts with six European businesses developing AI, blockchain and analytics applications. The deals, the value of w…
Bloomsbury AI becomes the latest UCL spinout to be acquired by a US tech giant
Facebook has confirmed it is buying Bloomsbury AI, a London startup specialising in natural language processing. The social media giant revealed on…
NHS data breach: tech supplier blamed for disclosure of 150,000 patients’ medical records
The NHS has accidentally disclosed 150,000 patients’ confidential medical records to external researchers and clinical auditors, the governme…
IBM has won a three year NHS cyber security contract worth up to £30m
IBM has won a multimillion pound three-year tender to advise the NHS on cyber security, as part of a drive to boost the health service’s defe…
The Home Office’s biometrics strategy is not a strategy, say critics
The Home Office’s long overdue biometrics strategy “fails to do justice to the critical issues” involved in collecting biometric …
Ticketmaster breach led to “quite a big” financial loss for Monzo, claims bank’s CEO
On the evening of Friday 6 April, Daniel Chatfield, a software engineer at the challenger bank Monzo, sent out a tweet containing an unintelligible…
UHSFT NHS Trust CIO Adrian Byrne on going paperless, HIMSS Level 7 and IoT
Over the last 15 years or so, Adrian Byrne, CIO of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHSFT) has pursued a strategy for electron…
How changes to competition law could reign in Big Tech and boost innovation
Something has gone wrong with our markets and our competition law. That is the contention of ResPublica and the Big Innovation Centre’s recent repo…
Celonis: the $1bn German software firm disrupting management consulting
Celonis, a German software provider seeking to disrupt the management consulting sector, has become the latest European startup to reach a $1bn val…
The week in public sector tech: the biggest tenders and awards (27/06)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive feature analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with data analysis firm T…
Sadiq Khan on Uber’s victory: “You must play by the rules”
Sadiq Khan has warned that Uber “must play by the rules”, after the ride-hailing service overturned a ban on its operations in the capi…
A new London cyber innovation centre has unveiled its first cohort of businesses
Ten cyber-security firms from across the UK have been selected to join a £13.5m innovation programme at the new London Office for Rapid Cyber Advan…
DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis is set to advise the government’s new Office for AI
Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, has been named as the first adviser to the government’s new Office for Artificial Intelligence. I…
How could tech transform social care? NHS Digital partners with 12 councils to find out
NHS Digital has joined forces with the Local Government Association to award £240,000 to a dozen councils seeking to explore how technology could t…
GDPR: HMRC’s database of 5.1m voice records raises “significant questions of lawfulness”
An HMRC database of 5.1 million taxpayers’ biometric voiceprints may breach new European data protection laws, according to privacy experts a…
IBM: TSB may have failed to rigorously test systems before IT migration
TSB may have failed to properly test its systems before migrating customers over to new digital platforms earlier this year, according to a prelimi…
“Dreadful” European copyright rules are one step closer to becoming law
New European copyright rules that critics warn could “turn the internet into a tool for the automated surveillance of its users” are a …
Brian Krzanich has stepped down as Intel CEO over a relationship with an employee
Brian Krzanich has resigned as the CEO of Intel over a “past consensual relationship with an Intel employee”, the firm announced this a…
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