Digital is now part of our DNA
Scotland has vigorously embraced the digital revolution. The past few years have seen the nation famous for whisky, bagpipes and tartan make great strides in advanced technologies such as artificial...
FinTech Scotland’s first anniversary heralds the sector’s growth across Scotland
The number of innovative fintech SMEs based in Scotland has grown by three times – to more than 80 – in the last twelve months, industry organisation FinTech Scotland has...
How to connect with your best customers through holistic content marketing
If you have a business, you may already know that trying to stand out in an increasingly crowded digital marketplace and being seen by the right people, at the right...
Brightsolid appoints new chief executive and chief technology officer
Brightsolid, the Scottish co-location and cloud company, has appointed former financial services director Elaine Maddison as chief executive and Bryan Lambe, previously a business transformation leader at Microsoft, as chief...
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...
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