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Cloud & Edge Computing
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.
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Data Protection & Privacy
Data Privacy Day 2023: keeping data secure and compliant
On the 17th annual Data Privacy Day — also known as Data Protection Day — we explore what organisations need to consider this year when it comes to keeping data secure and compliant with regulations
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Careers
What is the role of a CTO in a start-up?
The role of the chief technology officer (CTO) can be vital to the much needed innovation of any start-up. Here, we explore what this entails
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AI & Machine Learning
Radical Ventures $550m fund for AI start-ups backed by market pioneers
Toronto-based investment firm Radical Ventures has received backing from several artificial intelligence leaders, to go towards supporting the innovation of AI start-ups.
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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
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IT management
LogicMonitor appoints Taggart Matthiesen as chief product officer
SaaS observability provider LogicMonitor has hired former Lyft and Twitter executive Taggart Matthiesen as its new chief product officer
AI & Machine Learning
Microsoft and OpenAI enter third phase of AI acceleration partnership
Microsoft has announced a new multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, extending the two companies' partnership to accelerate AI computing and research development
Cybersecurity
61,000 open source projects, vulnerable to 15-year-old flaw, now patched
Following discovery of a 15-year-old vulnerability affecting open source projects through Python, Trellix has managed to patch over 61,000 of the ventures affected
Releases & Updates
Google to make 12,000 employees redundant
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced in a company memo that around 12,000 employees in the US will be made redundant, as big tech continues to take cost-cutting measures
Major Contracts
Barclays Eagle Labs awarded Digital Growth Grant to aid regional innovation
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has awarded its £12.09m Digital Growth Grant to Barclays Eagle Labs, to help boost growth of UK tech start-ups and scale-ups
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
Diversity
Women in IT Awards Asia nominations close 10th Feb 2023
Nominations for the 2023 Women in IT Awards Asia close on the 10th February — here's how you can nominate