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Sectors

Securing your digital assets using advanced strategies for app security

Enhancing app security to safeguard your digital assets is essential. Amy Groden-Morrison explains what strategies you can put in place

Technology

Technology

Transformative technology trends coming to the fore in 2024

AI isn’t the only development worth keeping an eye on in 2024, says Mobica’s global head of technology, Mariusz Stolarski

Agriculture

Reasons to be cheerful about our tech-enabled food future

Agriculture

Agriculture

Sustainable tech leading the charge against Earth’s challenges

Agriculture

Digitisation in the farming sector

Farming is the oldest industry in civilisation, and yet it is the last one to be disrupted by digitisation and new technologies. However, technologies like Blockchain, remote sensor technology and Big Data represent a huge opportunity for the UK in a post Brexit society.

Agriculture

Siloed thinking will lead to siloed digital transformation strategies

Agriculture

IoT set to fuel the next Green Revolution in the farming industry

Agriculture

Tech talent vital for the survival of the UK farming industry

Just like any other industry, the UK farming sector is becoming increasingly reliant on tech talent.

Automotive

Aviation

How smart data capture is innovating the air travel experience

AI & Machine Learning

Aviation

How edge computing can bolster aviation sector innovation

Aviation

How the tech strategy of IATA’s CIO is aiding pandemic recovery in aviation

Pascal Buchner, CIO of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), spoke to Information Age about his IT transformation strategy.

Construction & Civil Engineering

How robotics is heralding a new era in construction

The rapidly rising prominence of robotics in the construction space means that businesses need to upskill, or risk getting left behind

Automation & Robotics

Consumer Electronics & Mobile

Wearable devices: invasion of privacy or health necessity?

Consumer Electronics & Mobile

Consumer Electronics & Mobile

IMImobile set to acquire mobile messaging company 3Cinteractive

IMImobile set to acquire 3Cinteractive, as global communications software provider adds mobile messaging to its service.

Consumer Electronics & Mobile

Is Huawei really a threat to an organisation’s mobile security?

Defence

AI & Machine Learning

The 3 AI startups revolutionising the defence sector

Defence

NATO taking a strong arm approach to state-sponsored hacking

Data Analytics & Data Science

British Army transforms decision-making using analytics

The British Army is enhancing the quality of resourcing and operational decision-making using data analytics.

Education

Historical education bolstered by AI-powered digital human

A digital human modelled and trained on the writings of Luigi Einaudi has been released by the Einaudi Foundation and Reply.

Education

Education

£200m digital skills training scheme launched by UK government

Government funding is to be aimed at digital skills training across high-growth UK sectors including green energy and construction

Business Skills

Cisco pledges to train 10 million people in digital skills, in 10 years

In its goal to empower 25 million people with digital skills, Cisco is aiming to train 10 million people across EMEA in a decade, through its Networking Academy

Development & Programming

How edtech partnerships are boosting the code learning journey

Stack Overflow is partnering with online learning platforms Udemy and Pluralsight, to help budding technologists find the right start to their code learning journey

AI & Machine Learning

Unlocking the ‘black box’ of education data

Disruptive Innovation

Edtech trends for the near future

Energy & Utilities

Financial Services

Top insurance startups in the UK

The insurtech sector is one the most innovative within the technology industry as a whole, with the UK making up about 10 per cent of the worldwide market.

Financial Services

AI & Machine Learning

How insurtech is using artificial intelligence

Insurance technology (insurtech) is rapidly evolving, allowing for digitalisation of insurance sector processes. Here, we explore the role of AI in this trend

Disruptive Innovation

The top 10 most innovative and disruptive Insurtech companies

There are a number of growing Insurtech companies, with many startups rapidly emerging to disrupt the market.

Financial Services

How Buy Now Pay Later technology works

Providers such as Klarna and Zilch are worth billions due to their accurate lending decision making. The reason? Artificial intelligence, a hundred or more data sources, and nudge theory. Charles Orton-Jones goes under the bonnet of Buy Now Pay Later

Disruptive Innovation

3 jobs in fintech hiring this week

With UK fintechs continuing to attract investment, here are the key factors driving growth in the space, and three fintech jobs being advertised right now

Disruptive Innovation

6 payments technology companies disrupting the sector

Here are some companies that are making waves in the payments technology space, bolstering transaction processes for businesses

Healthcare & Life Sciences

How Solidsoft Reply helps healthcare and pharma companies

Charles Young from Solidsoft Reply spoke to Information Age about how the company helps healthcare and pharma companies, particularly via its development of an effective controlled drug administration system

Cloud & Edge Computing

Cloud & Edge Computing

Overcoming cybersecurity concerns in healthcare

Gaurav Agarwaal, Senior Vice-President: Global Lead - Managed Security Service and Industry Security Solutions at Avanade, spoke to Information Age about how healthcare organisations, alongside a partnering IT service provider, can overcome cybersecurity threats

Cloud & Edge Computing

How edge computing is mitigating challenges in life sciences

Life science organisations have shown their ability to perform incredible feats, empowered by robust, sustainable and scalable infrastructure systems. In this article, we explore how edge is enabling the next leaps in life sciences innovation

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Talend and Snowflake support patient data management for mental health charity

UK charity Mental Health Concern has been working with Talend and Snowflake to leverage data-driven insights and improved agility for better patient data management.

AI & Machine Learning

BioNTech acquires InstaDeep for £562m to boost drug discovery efforts

Following a multi-year partnership, German biotech company BioNTech has completed the acquisition of UK AI startup InstaDeep, to aid expansion beyond vaccine delivery.

AI & Machine Learning

DeepMind spin-off Isomorphic Labs announces drug discovery scale plans

Legal & Accountancy

PwC partners bet £100m on AI, reducing payouts

Annual payouts to PwC partners have taken a hit in favour of investment in AI, as further research points to great disruption potential

AI & Machine Learning

Cloud & Edge Computing

How to choose a cloud provider as a law firm

Here's how law firms and legal teams can ensure long-term success from a partnership with a cloud service provider, while staying compliant

Disruptive Innovation

Five digital trends to watch in the legal tech sector

Manufacturing

Slack chief executive cites chip costs as key AI barrier

Newly appointed Slack CEO Lidiane Jones says that surging costs for chips to power AI could prove a key challenge towards long-term innovation

AI & Machine Learning

Data Analytics & Data Science

AVEVA appoints Caspar Herzberg as CEO

Following its recent acquisition by Schneider Electric, UK industrial software company AVEVA has promoted from within to appoint Caspar Herzberg as chief executive officer

Government & Public Sector

UK semiconductor strategy delay criticised by MPs

A committee of MPs has referred to the UK government's delay in publishing a national semiconductor strategy as an "act of self harm"

Manufacturing

Tech leaders call on UK government to deliver semiconductor strategy

In a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, tech leaders have asked the government to prepare and publish the UK’s semiconductor strategy as a matter of urgency

Automation & Robotics

Schneider Electric completes acquisition of AVEVA

UK-based industrial software company AVEVA has been acquired by global automation and energy management specialists Schneider Electric, to bolster industrial digital transformation efforts

Hardware & Peripherals

Renishaw shares continue to be sold amidst chip supply fears

Media & Marketing

Property

Building smart futures with digitalised building solutions

Smart building technology powered by IoT and digitalisation capabilities is playing a key role in facilitating smarter futures in the property space

Property

Retail

Technology

5 IT recruitment agencies you should know about

Here, we identify five IT recruitment agencies that stand out as notable drivers of tech hiring, globally

Recruitment

Recruitment

5 top tech jobs in the UK this week

With the UK tech industry continuing to develop skills and capabilities in order to innovate, here are five top jobs being advertised this week

Research

IT spending in Europe projected to grow 9% in 2024

Gartner has forecasted a 9.3% increase in IT spending on the part of businesses operating across Europe, within the next year

Payments technology

The future of biometric payments

Nearly 90% of consumers are excited about using biometrics, such as fingerprints or facial scans, when paying for things. The consensus is that they’re safer and easier to use than passwords. We go behind the technology of biometric payments

Blockchain

Blockchain technology in payments

Blockchain is driving value for payments businesses and consumers across cryptocurrencies, CBDCs and stablecoin infrastructure.

Payments technology

What’s the future of wearable payment devices?

The global market for wearable payment technology is expected to be worth $137bn by 2030, whether that’s using smartwatches, bracelets, jewellery – or even having a chip embedded under you skin

Payments technology

The future of biometric payments

Nearly 90% of consumers are excited about using biometrics, such as fingerprints or facial scans, when paying for things. The consensus is that they’re safer and easier to use than passwords. We go behind the technology of biometric payments

Payments technology

Blockchain

Blockchain technology in payments

Blockchain is driving value for payments businesses and consumers across cryptocurrencies, CBDCs and stablecoin infrastructure.

Payments technology

What’s the future of wearable payment devices?

The global market for wearable payment technology is expected to be worth $137bn by 2030, whether that’s using smartwatches, bracelets, jewellery – or even having a chip embedded under you skin

Cybersecurity

A history of online payment security

Over the years, industry leaders in internet business transactions have worked to create complex systems for ensuring online payment security

Payments technology

Future of payments technology

Consumers demand speed, convenience and security when it comes to payments, which puts technology in the driving seat

Financial Services

How Buy Now Pay Later technology works

Providers such as Klarna and Zilch are worth billions due to their accurate lending decision making. The reason? Artificial intelligence, a hundred or more data sources, and nudge theory. Charles Orton-Jones goes under the bonnet of Buy Now Pay Later

Telecoms

BT to migrate mainframe applications to cloud with Kyndryl

As part of a ten-year partnership with Kyndryl, BT Group is moving its mainframes to the cloud, in the aim of reducing costs and energy consumption.

Cloud & Edge Computing

Transport & Logistics