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Tech sector news covering latest major IT contracts, people moves, product releases and updates, and company financial results.

ICO appoint new executive director McDougall

People Moves / 13 August 2018 / McDougall, who has served on the Board of Directors and the European Advisory Board at [...]

Ivanti and Huawei partner in response to high security demands

Major Contracts / 10 August 2018 / The partnership, sealed via the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU), will see Huawei become [...]

Major Contracts

eSentire and Cyxtera partner to bring protection to the midsize enterprise

9 August 2018 / eSentire, the pure-play managed detection and response (MDR) provider, and Cyxtera Technologies, the secure infrastructure [...]

People Moves

Abacus Group appoints Paul Ponzeka as new CTO

8 August 2018 / Viktor Tadijanovic, formerly Chief Technology Officer, has been appointed to a new role as Abacus’s [...]

Major Contracts

MTN Group sign deal with Flytxt

6 August 2018 / Multinational mobile telecommunications company, MTN Group has signed a deal with Flytxt, customer engagement technology [...]

News

This week in tech news

3 August 2018 / Apple’s market value hits $1 trillion Apple has become the first public company to be [...]

Cybersecurity

MTI to work with NHS Digital

2 August 2018 / The agreement allows MTI to provide ‘Specialist Security Services’ to NHS Digital and support their [...]

People Moves

GetYourGuide hire new CTO

1 August 2018 / GetYourGuide’s new CTO, Udi Nir, has previously held VP Engineering and CTO posts at shopping [...]

People Moves

Epsilon Appoint Andrew Mitchell as SVP International Sales

30 July 2018 / Mitchell, who spent over seven years at American market research firm IRI as a sales [...]

Consumer Electronics & Mobile

Grover raises €37 million to offer “pay-as-you-go” consumer tech

30 July 2018 / In what is one of the largest Series A funding rounds in Europe, the Berlin-based [...]

Automotive

Ubiquity Technology and UiPath announce a partnership

30 July 2018 / Ubiquity Technology, a company that offers specialised engineering and innovation technologies and process automation, has [...]

Data Protection & Privacy

The week in tech: Earnings, Brexit and leaks

27 July 2018 / Digital services after Brexit techUK’s Head of Policy for Brexit, Giles Derrington, gave evidence at [...]

Releases & Updates

Google and Accenture team up to deliver enterprise data insight solutions group

26 July 2018 / The Accenture Google Cloud Business Group (AGBD), announced today, looks to help companies use Google [...]

The City & Wall Street

Facebook and Twitter: Will fake news and privacy scandals reflect in earnings?

25 July 2018 / This week will see earnings from social media giants, Facebook and Twitter, both of whom [...]

Major Contracts

Uniper announces a partnership with Publicis.Sapient

23 July 2018 / In their statement, a spokesperson for Publicis.Sapient said: “The partnership is a vital step forward [...]

Major Contracts

BATM enters into partnership with FatPipe Networks

18 July 2018 / This represents BATM’s first solution to be delivered since the group’s joint development agreement with [...]

Digital Transformation

What are the factors that determine success in digital transformation efforts?

12 July 2018 / The report, in its second year having been piloted in 2017, identified artificial intelligence (AI) [...]

People Moves

The Global Cyber Academy appoints Carolyn Harrison as GDPR ambassador to the Advisory Council

9 July 2018 / The Global Cyber Academy Advisory Council is an international collective of cyber security professionals and policy-makers. [...]

Automation

Automation Anywhere secures major stake in the RPA market

4 July 2018 / According to their press release, with the investment, Automation Anywhere plans to expand its customer [...]

People Moves

Milena Marinova appointed Head of AI at Pearson

3 July 2018 / Milena Marinova, who also currently advises several business start-ups around California’s Bay Area, will be [...]

The City & Wall Street

Alibaba Cloud solidify growth in EMEA with new partner programme

2 July 2018 / Earlier this year, Simon Hu, president of China’s Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of [...]

Releases & Updates

Fico release free cyber security rating service to companies worldwide

29 June 2018 / According to Fico, organisations will be able to use the complimentary service to better understand [...]

People Moves

Nick Offin appointed new Toshiba head of sales, marketing and operations for Northern Europe

27 June 2018 / Former Toshiba Information System’s Head of B2B Sales-Northern Europe Offin, who will replace Neil Bramley [...]

Major Contracts

John Lewis select Workday as HR and payroll provider

25 June 2018 / The supermarket chain, which encompasses John Lewis and Waitrose shops across the UK, joins the [...]

The City & Wall Street

Adaptive Lab joins Capgemini’s digital design network

25 June 2018 / The decision sees the French business consultancy firm, which was launched back in 1967 as [...]