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How Palantir quietly extended its reach through the British state
Since the start of the pandemic, Peter Thiel’s secretive data analysis firm, Palantir, has been invited to work on some of the UK’s mos…
Will Biden call off Trump’s war on Big Tech?
On 6 October, less than four weeks before the US election, the House of Representatives’ antitrust subcommittee presented a striking predicti…
How AI is tracking illegal fishing vessels on the high seas
Illegal fishing depletes fish stocks, tears up ocean beds, and decimates food sources for coastal towns and villages. But boats engaging in persist…
The key trends for RPA and collaboration software in 2021
While demand for online services has grown since the start of the pandemic, tech budgets haven’t. In fact, Gartner has predicted that IT spen…
To the cloud: Why financial services companies must accelerate digital adoption
Despite consistently citing digital adoption as a top business priority, the financial services industry has lagged behind other sectors in migrati…
Plot a course: Key considerations for selecting the right application migration strategy
Migration to the cloud is a fundamental stepping stone in delivering digital transformation, but choosing the right approach has not always been st…
Why Vestager’s antitrust fight with Amazon risks exposing the limits of her power
At midday on 10 November, Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s high-profile enforcer of competition law, unveiled the preliminary findings of a landm…
Inside the French government’s mission to develop an encrypted messaging platform
Recent years have seen a step-change in French government operations. An unprecedented modernisation agenda has created new ways of working for off…
ConnectWise’s acquisitions of Perch, StratoZen aim to bring together disparate MSP security tools
ConnectWise was one of the first companies to provide a professional services automation (PSA) product for managed service providers (MSPs). That i…
The biggest govtech opportunities of the week (12/11/20)
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with GlobalData, we’ve dri…
How to transition from being an MSP to an MSSP
The managed service provider (MSP) sector is in a state of flux. Around the world, clients are demanding ever more of their MSPs, particularly when…
Google antitrust case could topple ‘monoculture’ in search, says former ad chief
“It’s not wrong to be big and successful,” says Sridhar Ramaswamy, founder of search start-up Neeva. “It is, however, not right to use that power t…
How Twitter’s new retweet policy limited Joe Biden’s reach
A Twitter update intended to encourage thoughtfulness on the platform in the run up to the presidential election has hit Joe Biden’s campaign – and…
Don’t trade away our valuable national data assets
Data is at the heart of the global digital economy, and the tech giants hold vast quantities of it. The Centre for European Policy Studies think ta…
Customers are taking off pandemic ‘sticking plasters’ to make long-term changes, says AdEPT CEO Phil Race
AdEPT was founded 17 years ago as a telecommunications company. About eight years ago, the founder realised that the marketplace was shifting, with…
The future for Logicalis is managed services, says CEO Bob Bailkoski
Bob Bailkoski joined Logicalis five years ago as chief financial officer, before being promoted to chief operating officer, and then at perhaps the…
Cloudreach CEO: 90 per cent of customers are deploying multi-cloud environments
Cloudreach was established 11 years ago, with the initial focus on building out the IT environment, migrating applications to the cloud and optimis…
How the Cambridge Analytica scandal unravelled
The notion that the contentious British firm played a pivotal role in the Trump and Brexit votes has become ever harder to maintain. “It’s like a b…
The biggest govtech deals of the week
This is the latest instalment of an exclusive series analysing the UK’s biggest public sector tech deals. In partnership with GlobalData, we’ve dri…
Data, cyber and IoT innovations at the British Army
“Data is our ammunition,” said Major General Jonathan Cole, CIO and director of information at the British Army, speaking at New Statesman Media Gr…
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