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Software giant aims to hire 1,000 professionals to drive mid-market growth in Apac region

Japanese technology firm SoftBank Group is to acquire Cambridge-based ARM Holdings to capitalise on the UK firm's IP in chipsets for smartphones and IoT devices

Former Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock replaces Ed Vaizey as digital economy minister in the highest-profile change among digital roles

Businesses can take several precautions to avoid being victims of ransomware, but if all else fails, they should negotiate with their attackers, according to a report by F-Secure

The French government has more hurdles to overcome than many of its European neighbours when it comes to adopting cloud computing services

Energy services provider announces the launch of its women in tech network to provide a community for female tech employees

Digital skills, tech startups and the UK’s digital economy success stories have all been put at risk by the decision to leave the EU, says a committee of MPs

Drinks firm Rémy Cointreau uses Centrify’s identity and mobile management to simplify security, improve business agility and reduce IT costs

Airlines in the Middle East are investing heavily in IT as the industry faces increasing demand for more efficient services

IBM continues to bet on strategic businesses such as cloud, which delivered 30% growth in the second quarter despite an overall revenue decline for the period of 3% compared with 2015

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee calls for operation and investment overhaul for Openreach, and claims failure to deliver on this should prompt Ofcom to order breakaway from BT

Nominet Trust and the Baring Foundation launch a fund for tech innovations designed to engage older people in creative arts

Datacentre efficiency consortium The Green Grid plans to introduce a metric to drive up the accuracy of facility performance measurements during downtime and normal operating conditions

European Court of Justice lays down the limits of data retention following legal challenge by two UK MPs, and David Davis withdraws his name from legal action after assuming a post in Theresa May’s cabinet

Distributed denial of service attacks continue to be popular with attackers, increasing in size, complexity and frequency in the first half of 2016, according to the latest global report by Arbor Networks

Helen Dixon, Ireland’s data protection commissioner, is asking the European Court of Justice to rule on the legality of EU-US data transfers, post-Safe Harbour, in a landmark legal challenge

Carbon Black is betting on next-generation antivirus technology by acquiring Confer to extend the capability and appeal of its endpoint protection offerings

Malcolm Turnbull has made key tech appointments following his narrow victory in the Australian election

The Home Office is merging its IT units to create Home Office Digital, Data and Technology and has appointed CTO Sarah Wilkinson to lead it

Telia’s offer of data freebies to customers has brought criticism from some that believe it breaches net neutrality rules

Microsoft reports quarterly profits of $3.12bn, largely driven by the success of its focus on cloud services

Williams Group seals technical partnership to protect its confidential high-value data in the competitive world of F1 racing

Telecommunications giant incurs the wrath of BT broadband users after thousands struggle to get online, following power outage at third-party datacentre provider

Insurance intermediary is moving its IT infrastructure into the cloud in a 12-month project that also sees it update its end-user computing technologies

Paul Elich, CIO at Dutch airline KLM, tells Computer Weekly about building innovation into IT departments and the ongoing de-duplication of internal systems since its merger with Air France

Second-quarter results show 3% growth in cloud revenue to reach 14% of the €5.2bn revenue total, as operating profit jumps 10%

A report based on independent data ranks the UK behind most major European countries as a safe location for storing data

Housing developer to use cloud-based service across multiple business functions following succesful implementation for IT service desk

Pokemon Go is pushing augmented reality closer to enterprise adoption. Also on Searchlight, Microsoft wins in warrant case; Google hit with new charges.

A Public Accounts Committee hearing coincided with news that the DWP is delaying the rollout of Universal Credit

Users of BBC app can shape their experience based on the content they want to consume

The latest AT&T Network on Demand service provides virtualized versions of Cisco or Juniper routers, Fortinet firewalls or Riverbed WAN optimization technology.

Kanoo Group IT director explains the company's IT transformation, including why implementing Office 365 across the business was his biggest career challenge

Intel says its transformation to focus on cloud and IoT is on track, but these key business areas fail to deliver as much growth as expected

Power supply issues at Docklands datacentre could be behind loss of internet access for more than 5,500 BT broadband users

Mobile contactless payments enable three key security controls that make them more secure than physical and e-commerce payments, according to a report by Isaca

Sales of IT as a service growth in Europe helped offset a huge fall in the total value of traditional IT and business process outsourcing contracts

Acquisition of payment systems company for £700m could increase innovation in the UK payments sector

Market watcher shines a light on how the adoption of off-premise technologies is shaking up enterprise IT spending trends

The security industry welcomes the inclusion of cyber crime statistic in official crime reports to highlight the size and nature of the threat

Eduserv study into cloud take-up inside local authorities suggests council CIOs are still over-invested in on-premise technology

The use of mobile apps to bank is growing fast and fewer people use the internet to handle their financial affairs

Facebook has completed the first test flight in a year-long programme for its UK-developed Aquila drone designed to enable internet connections in remote areas, using high-speed laser communications

Head of the National Audit Office highlights risks from a 'digital capability' gap across Whitehall

A report by dark web intelligence firm Flashpoint reveals how jihadist groups use common security and other tools to hide their digital communications from national security forces

A group of tech firms have joined forces to develop a management protocol for IoT devices that could pave the way to an open, interoperable standard to address security and privacy risks

NetApp and SolidFire, a flash storage vendor acquired earlier this year, are in the process of integrating their channel programs and partner ecosystems.