Software firm PODFather relocates to new Edinburgh HQ
Edinburgh software firm, PODFather, has committed its future to west Edinburgh by opening a new HQ as it looks to expand its operation and headcount in 2019. PODFather chose to relocate from...
Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s resolution? ‘Discuss the future of technology’
Facebook chief executive and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg wants to talk about the future of technology; he said his personal challenge for 2019 is to host a series of public discussions...
RBS’s new digital bank invests in Loot
The Royal Bank of Scotland’s new digital bank Bó has paid £5m for a 25% stake in student-focused fintech startup Loot. Bó, a digital-only bank being developed by RBS’s NatWest...
Strathclyde University graduate named Apple senior vice-president
Apple announced today that John Giannandrea had been promoted to the company’s executive team as senior vice-president of machine learning and artificial intelligence strategy. Giannandrea, a graduate of Strathclyde University,...
New chief executive announced at innovation centre CENSIS
CENSIS, Scotland’s innovation centre for sensing, imaging systems, and IoT technologies, has appointed entrepreneurial technologist Paul Winstanley as its new chief executive. In a career spanning more than three decades,...
‘We really have to stop living in this untrusted world’
“Sun Microsystems got it right many years ago when they said the network is the computer, and they were spot on,” says Bill Buchanan, Scotland’s preeminent cryptographer, as he tries...
The Exascale: a billion billion reasons why the global supercomputing ‘arms race’ is heating up
Mark Parsons sounds remarkably alert for a man who is just back from an exhausting tour of some of the world’s biggest supercomputing functions and facilities. In the previous fortnight...
It’s time to embrace Brexit
The UK is leaving the European Union; that much we know. The nature of our future relationship with member countries, and the economic implications, are still being debated. For one...
Creating a team spirit
Technology start-ups and companies beginning to scale-up inScotland are increasingly competing with large corporates by offering flexible remuneration packages, some including share options. “For these younger, more entrepreneurial firms, finding...
10 Scottish businesses embracing digital innovation
eTalent With companies now either having to spend hours reading through a plethora of CVs or significant sums relying on agencies to do most of the hard work, recruitment software...
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