The Central Market Agency: harnessing data for customer benefit
The move to improve data quality and ensure water customers are billed accurately has been led in Scotland by the Central Market Agency (CMA). Ten years ago, the water industry...
Apple hires Google’s head of search, Strathclyde Uni graduate John Giannandrea
Apple has hired Google’s head of search and artificial intelligence, Strathclyde University computer science graduate John Giannandrea – “a major coup in its bid to catch up to the artificial...
Apple to ditch Intel in favour of its own chips in Macs, reports Bloomberg
Apple is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers from 2020, replacing processors from Intel, according to Bloomberg. The initiative, code named Kalamata, is still in its early...
Google employees organise ‘to fight cyber bullying at work’
Around 100 Google employees in the US, concerned about cyber bullying inside the company according to a report by Reuters, have organised into a group proposing new policies for conduct...
UK information commissioner welcomes Facebook ending deals with data brokers
The UK’s Information Commissioner welcomed Facebook’s decision to end its partnerships with several large data brokers who help advertisers target people on the social network. Elizabeth Denham said in a...
Facebook unveils new user controls governing privacy and data
Facebook, embroiled in a data scandal which has cost the company more than $100bn in market value, has announced a series of privacy changes it was making to give users...
Edinburgh Business School: at the juncture of education and employment
“It was a bit like mystery shopping,” recalls Professor Heather McGregor. The journalist and author, known among other things for her 17 years as ‘Mrs Moneypenny’ in The Financial Times,...
Strathclyde Business School: opening doors to new experiences
An MBA is the go-to qualification for those who wish to upgrade their career, change sector or perhaps start a new business. It’s such a broad-based qualification – covering finance,...
Royal Bank of Scotland to buy accounting software firm FreeAgent
The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced a bid to buy the Edinburgh-based accounting software group FreeAgent for £53m. “Since the beginning of our partnership, we have been impressed by...
Apple, IBM executives call for increased data oversight in the wake of Facebook row
Executives from Apple and IBM have called for more oversight on how personal data is used following the Facebook Inc breach that saw more than 50 million users’ data misused...
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