‘Orkney one of the most exciting places in tech’ as Microsoft sinks data centre in sea
Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea off Orkney to investigate whether it can boost energy efficiency. The facility, a white cylinder containing servers equivalent to several thousand...
Competition and Markets Authority urged to investigate digital advertising industry
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) should investigate the digital advertising industry “as a matter of urgency”, according to Which? ‘People-based marketing’ has become a feature of the digital advertising...
Seed Haus’ hardware startups on trade mission to Shenzhen
A delegation of hardware startups from the Edinburgh based tech accelerator, Seed Haus, is travelling to China to enhance ties with manufacturers and suppliers in the world’s electronics capital, Shenzhen....
Castlight Financial in pilot partnership to help people with debt
Castlight Financial, the Glasgow-based financial capability company, Big Issue Invest (BII) and Advice Direct Scotland (ADS) have launched a tool to empower people struggling with debt by providing them with...
Miigen, the social platform for senior life, aims to raise £500,000 in seed funding round
A Scottish start-up with global potential is embarking on a £500,000 seed round fundraising exercise today which aims to significantly widen its investor base and take it to the next stage...
Microsoft to take on Amazon with $7.5 billion GitHub deal
Microsoft has announced that it is buying privately held coding website GitHub Inc for $7.5bn in an all-stock deal to designed to strengthen its cloud computing business and challenge market...
Apple focuses on speed and parental controls in software upgrades
Apple has unveiled software upgrades that will let older iPhones run faster, help parents limit their children’s screen time, and make its Siri voice assistant work more like a rival...
Pricing software boosts carmakers’ profits by $1bn, according to court documents
Carmakers including Renault, Jaguar Land Rover, and Peugeot, have boosted revenues by over $1 billion in the past decade by using sophisticated pricing software, according to sales presentations prepared by...
Digital leaders prepare for Scotland’s flagship transformation conference
More than 300 delegates are expected to attend Digital Scotland 2018, the inaugural national conference exploring transformation of the nation’s public services and wider economy. Digital leaders from the Scottish...
Assure APM partners with ZoneFox to provide security solution
Edinburgh-based IT cyber security and performance monitoring solutions company Assure APM has today announced its partnership with award winning Scottish cyber security company ZoneFox, the Scottish company behind a unique security solution that locks down insider threats. ...
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