Building a city’s digital hub
Scotland’s digital technologies industry contributes around £4bn in gross value added (GVA) to the Scottish economy, with export revenues on the up, and around 80,000 people estimated to be working…
New IT jobs platform launched
InSite, a platform that could change recruitment, was launched this week with fashion footwear retailer Schuh the first to sign up. Developed and hosted by Head Resourcing, specialists in IT,…
The retention approach to executive search: how one recruiter has created talent communities for its clients
Denholm Associates is applying consumer marketing techniques to recruitment search Over the last 10 years there has been an undeniable and marked shift in recruitment. The rise of technology has…
The Netflix approach to retail marketing
The decades-old audience segmentation model for marketing is broken, says the co-founder of Big Data for Humans. Welcome to the era of the ‘networked customer’ Midway through our conversation Peter…
‘Spearphishing, smishing and whaling’ – we’re struggling to keep up, admits cyber cop
Police Scotland hope for co-operation between officers and business as it fights against a rising tide of automated and industrial hacking New and constantly evolving forms of cybercrime have left…
The future of the internet might lie in a hut in Troon with a software company whose boss is a part-time lifeboat helmsman
Stranger things have happened but could MaidSafe’s plan for an alternative internet actually float – or sink without trace?Two years ago a little-known software company from Troon rather unexpectedly announced…
If you thought the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers were scarily impressive, just wait until you meet the Edinburgh team who help bring them to the world
Cortex is pioneering a new way of hosting enterprise websites It devours data at such a rate that it has become affectionately known by those who work on it as…
Technology recruitment: Why speed is of the essence
Cathcart Associates says firms in the hunt for the best talent must be prepared to move fast Companies need to be more agile, flexible and quicker to market when looking…
A hacker’s step-by-step guide to how you can beat the hackers
The six cyber security steps to protect your business from harm: from an ‘ethical hacker’ whose Facebook password is 125-characters long How do you best protect your enterprise from cyber-attack,…
When Mad Men gave up being mad: how big data is shaking up the old order of TV ad media buying
In the fast-moving world of digital, ideas cannot be allowed to stand still otherwise they quickly fade and die. Contrast that with the old world, particularly in legacy businesses, where…
