COSLA shortlisted
Four Scottish organisations are among those that have been shortlisted for the Digital Leaders 100.The awards recognise individuals and organisations that demonstrate a “pioneering and sustainable” approach to digital transformation…
Check if your password has been ‘pwned’
We all live in very real fear of our private data being hacked. But fear not, there is now an online resource where you can check to see if any…
The bank that likes to say: ‘Can we get more money for tech firms?’
Lots of money is flowing into the tech sector. But is it enough? The head of the Scottish Investment Bank is about to find out The Scottish Investment Bank has…
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…
