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Worldwide IT Spending Set To Rise 9.8 Percent In 2025 – GartnerWorldwide IT Spending Set To Rise 9.8 Percent In 2025 – Gartner

Worldwide IT Spending Set To Rise 9.8 Percent In 2025 – Gartner

Spending on IT is forecasted to increase in 2025 according to Gartner, but price increases will absorb the increased CIO…

2 months ago
Tech CEOs Front And Centre At Trump’s InaugurationTech CEOs Front And Centre At Trump’s Inauguration

Tech CEOs Front And Centre At Trump’s Inauguration

The inauguration of Donald Trump on Monday was attended by the CEOs of big name tech firms, including the boss…

2 months ago
Russian State-Linked Hackers Target WhatsApp Accounts, Warns MicrosoftRussian State-Linked Hackers Target WhatsApp Accounts, Warns Microsoft

Russian State-Linked Hackers Target WhatsApp Accounts, Warns Microsoft

Microsoft warns the WhatsApp accounts of US government officials are being targetted by Russian hacking group

2 months ago
Google Donates $1 Million To Donald Trump Inauguration FundGoogle Donates $1 Million To Donald Trump Inauguration Fund

Google Donates $1 Million To Donald Trump Inauguration Fund

Bending the knee continues from the tech industry, as Alphabet's Google becomes latest to make inauguration fund donation

2 months ago
Microsoft Confirms Job Cuts Based On PerformanceMicrosoft Confirms Job Cuts Based On Performance

Microsoft Confirms Job Cuts Based On Performance

Software and cloud giant Microsoft confirms it is cutting a small percentage of jobs across departments, based on performance

2 months ago
Iran Lifts Ban On WhatsApp, Google PlayIran Lifts Ban On WhatsApp, Google Play

Iran Lifts Ban On WhatsApp, Google Play

State media reports the Iranian regime has lifted the ban on WhatsApp and Google Play, amid widespread VPN use

3 months ago
Microsoft Faces £1 Billion Lawsuit For Alleged OverchargingMicrosoft Faces £1 Billion Lawsuit For Alleged Overcharging

Microsoft Faces £1 Billion Lawsuit For Alleged Overcharging

Lawsuit filed in London against Microsoft alleges customers using rival cloud services, have to pay more to licence Windows Server

4 months ago
FTC Opens Antitrust Investigation Into MicrosoftFTC Opens Antitrust Investigation Into Microsoft

FTC Opens Antitrust Investigation Into Microsoft

Last hurrah for chair Lina Khan? Federal Trade Commission launches sweeping investigation into Microsoft before Trump handover

4 months ago
US DoJ To Push Google To Sell Off Chrome Browser – ReportUS DoJ To Push Google To Sell Off Chrome Browser – Report

US DoJ To Push Google To Sell Off Chrome Browser – Report

US Justice Department to ask Judge to force Google to sell off its Chrome browser, and also seeks rulings on…

4 months ago

Microsoft Settles Gamer Lawsuit Over Activision Purchase

Gamers who sued Microsoft to halt its purchase of Activision Blizzard have agreed to the dismissal of their lawsuit

5 months ago

Google Confronts Break-Up Threat From US DoJ

US Department of Justice mulls asking judge to force Google to sell parts of its business to eliminate online search…

6 months ago

Mike Lynch Died From Drowning, Coroner Inquest Rules

UK's tech billionaire Dr Mike Lynch died from drowning on his superyacht, but his daughter's death is under investigation

6 months ago

Microsoft Cuts Hundreds Of Gaming Staff

Post Activision - Microsoft Gaming confirms it will axe 650 employees, after thousands of job losses earlier this year

6 months ago

Mike Lynch: Captain Of Bayesian Yacht Declines To Talk

Respected captain of Bayesian yacht faces manslaughter charges, but refuses to answer questions over sinking

7 months ago

Body Of Mike Lynch’s Daughter Recovered, Amid Allegations Of Crew Mistakes

Body of Mike Lynch's 18 year old daughter, Hannah, recovered from wreck, as Italian authorities mull manslaughter charges

7 months ago

Dr Mike Lynch Confirmed Dead, As Search For Daughter Continues

Dr Mike Lynch confirmed dead after five bodies recovered from sunken yacht. Search continues for missing daughter

7 months ago

Four Bodies Found In Yacht Wreck Amid Search For Mike Lynch

Four bodies found in sunken yacht by Italian rescue divers, amid search for British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and others

7 months ago

DoJ Considers Google Breakup After Landmark Monopoly Ruling

US Department of Justice is reportedly considering the breakup of Google as one of the possible options, after monopoly ruling

7 months ago

Microsoft, CrowdStrike Hit Back At Delta’s Compensation Bid

Delta's old infrastructure blamed for its long recovery from global IT outage that resulted in over 6,000 cancelled flights

8 months ago

UK Investigates Alphabet Partnership With AI Firm Anthropic

British competition regulator, the CMA, to investigate Google parent Alphabet’s partnership with AI startup Anthropic

8 months ago

OpenAI Tests Search Engine Prototype Called ‘SearchGPT’

Google's dominance of online search is being challenged, after OpenAI unveiled a search prototype tool called SearchGPT

8 months ago

CrowdStrike CEO: 97 Percent Of Windows Sensors Back Online

One week after the world's largest IT outage, the head of CrowdStrike says nearly all impacted machines are back online

8 months ago

Microsoft Blames 2009 EU Agreement For World’s Biggest IT Outage

Redmond says EU deal gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, allowing last week's huge IT outage to happen

8 months ago

Crowdstrike CEO ‘Deeply Sorry’ For Global IT Outage

George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, apologises for the global tech failure that disrupted multiple industries on Friday

8 months ago

IT Spending Set For 7.4 Percent Growth In 2024 – Gartner

Good news for tech suppliers, after worldwide IT spending is forecasted by Gartner to grow 7.4 percent in 2024

8 months ago