Mobile payments company is looking for employees in London and Dublin as services prepped for European rollout
TECHNOLOGY POWERING BUSINESS
2016
Sage Employee Arrested At Heathrow Airport
Just days after damaging data breach at Sage, police confirm arrest of staffer at Heathrow airport
Cisco Confirms Major Jobs Cull, Despite Profit Growth
Bad news for tech workers as networking giant confirms restructuring reports, despite £8.1 billion profit
Uber Starts Self-Driving Car Rides As Volvo Becomes Autonomous Partner
Uber strikes $300m (£228m) deal with Volvo, will start driving passengers with autonomous vehicles in 'next few weeks'
NHS Care.Data 2.0: What Should It Look Like?
Sooraj Shah says the NHS needs to be transparent and act swiftly so that patients can reap the rewards
US To Cede Control Of DNS With ICANN Independence
Independence day for the Internet will be on 1 October, as the United States surrenders control of Icann
BT And Nokia Strike 5G Research Deal
Companies will collaborate on 5G proof of concept trials and sniff out commercial use cases for 5G technologies
Alipay Strengthens European Drive With Ingenico Alliance
Millions of Chinese tourists will now be able to use their Alipay app to pay for goods across European retailers
Intel To Build 10nm Mobile Chips For ARM
The chip-making rivals have reached a deal that will help Intel grow its foundry business while giving ARM another top manufacturer for its mobile processors
Government Identity Assurance Head Latest To Step Down
Janet Hughes' departure from the Government Digital Service is part of a wider Whitehall digital shakeup
Ford Plans Self-Driving Cars By 2021
Ford's autonomous car fleet will be sold to ride-sharing companies such as Uber
Intel Shows VR Headset Prototype
The 'Project Alloy' head-mounted display doesn't need an external PC and lets users see the environment around them
Medium Businesses Leading In Flash Adoption
NetApp survey finds strong growth of UK flash storage adoption, especially in SMBs
Sky Bet Boosts Customer Experience With Cloudera
Sky Betting and Gaming moves into Cloudera Enterprise to hit instantaneous reward fulfilmet for gamers
Report: Cisco ‘Set For Biggest-Ever Round Of Job Cuts’
The company may lay off up to 20 percent of staff as it shifts toward software and the cloud
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Former Steel Town Redcar Gets £100m Data Centre
Hundreds recently lost their jobs in Redcar, and the new data centre will be built on the former ICI Wilton site
Britain’s BullGuard Acquires Israel-Based IoT Security Startup
BullGuard buys into Internet of Things security space with smart home device acquisition
EU ‘Seeks To Limit Digital Comms Encryption’
The EU wants to force WhatsApp, iMessage and other Internet-based tools to abide by tougher data-protection rules, leaked documents say
Google Begins Development Of Fuchsia Open-Source OS
Unlike Android and Chrome, Google's new operating system will not be based on the Linux kernel. The new OS will use a new kernel called Magenta
Google Releases Duo Video Chat App
Duo launches with 'Knock Knock' feature for live preview of caller
Hacker Group Releases ‘NSA Spy Tools’
The code appears to be that used by the NSA to carry out spy operations
Linux Bug ‘Lets Attackers Target Billions Of Android Devices’
About 80 percent of all Android gadgets are vulnerable, say experts
Salesforce Buys Machine Learning Analytics Startup BeyondCore
BeyondCore will bolster Salesforce.com's Cloud Analytics capabilities
BT Rolls Out FTTP In London’s West End
Follow the money! Around 3,000 homes and businesses connected to 'micro cable' FTTP broadband in Mayfair
HPE Rolls Out Entry-Level Flash Platforms
New flash and software-defined options targeted at small and medium businesses
Oracle Opens ‘Biggest’ B2B Data Marketplace
The business-to-business marketplace brings together data from Oracle's own marketing data acquisitions as well as third-parties
Tales In Tech History: IBM PC Celebrates 35th Anniversary
35 years ago today, the world was changed forever with the arrival of IBM's personal computer
More Hotels Hit By Latest Payment Systems Breach
Hundreds of thousands of transactions may have been compromised in the latest hack
IBM And Workday Shake Hands On Seven-Year Cloud Deal
Workday will use IBM cloud services for software testing and development, according to reports