3 Great Tech Roles To Apply For This Week October 10, 2022 Looking for a new job in tech? The UK is expected to add nearly 15,000 technology-related jobs this year, according to a recent report from the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), a nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce. The report also states that there are already two million tech workers across [...]
UK and US make ‘significant progress’ on data partnership as Biden pens EU wide deal October 7, 2022 The government said it has made “significant progress” in securing a new tech and data partnership with the US. It comes as Digital Secretary Michelle Donelan met with US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo earlier today to work on a new data adequacy agreement in the coming weeks. Data adequacy agreements allow personal data to [...]
London toasts Europe’s top talent at ‘Oscars of Tech’ October 7, 2022 | Sponsored Europe’s leading investors and technology entrepreneurs gathered in London’s Hilton Park Lane last night, Thursday 6 October in celebration of the 20th annual GP Bullhound Investor Allstars. Dubbed the ‘Oscars of the tech world’, Investor Allstars is one of the leading events celebrating the very best of Europe’s vibrant tech industry, shining a light on [...]
Advances in eye health October 7, 2022 | City Talk May Griffith, PhD, Marie-Claude Robert, MD, Samir Jabbour, MD, and Isabelle Brunette, MD Department of Ophthalmology, Université de Montréal The first-in-human attempt to regenerate the human cornea was a team effort led by May Griffith, who is currently a Université de Montréal (UdeM) professor of ophthalmology. Together with Isabelle Brunette and the Swedish clinical trial [...]
Uber’s former security boss found guilty of criminal obstruction over data hack October 6, 2022 Uber’s former head of security has been found guilty of criminal obstruction for failing to tell US authorities about a 2016 database hack. The breach impacted 57 million Uber records and 600,000 driving-licence numbers, and led to former top dog Joe Sullivan to be fired in 2017. The San Francisco jury convicted Sullivan this week of [...]
Big pay for Big Tech: Facebook UK staff bank £134k a year on average October 6, 2022 Despite reports that tech firms are facing job cuts and a slowdown of hiring, new filings reveal that the average salary for a Facebook employee in the UK hit £134,000 last year. Facebook’s headcount climbed 37 per cent to 5,148 in the UK, with the wage bill up to £693m in 2021. This made the [...]
Viasat and Inmarsat $7.3bn merger could choke competition in wifi market, says CMA October 6, 2022 Viasat and Inmarsat’s $7.3bn (£6.4bn) merger faces further scrutiny from the UK’s competition watchdog over concerns it will choke competition in the aviation sector’s on-board wifi market. The Competition and Markets Authority said today that with both companies having a strong presence in the aviation market, the deal would remove a significant element of competition [...]
Samsung braces for biggest profit slump in years as consumer tech demand dries up October 6, 2022 Samsung Electronics could be swallowing its biggest profit slump in nearly three years in the third quarter, as a global economic crunch weighs on demand for consumer tech. The Korean technology giant may have had its profit dwindle by 25 per cent to $8.3bn (£7.3bn) in the three months to September, according to analysis by [...]
Musk’s Twitter u-turn is the beginning rather than the end October 5, 2022 When news broke that Elon Musk would be moving ahead with his original $44bn takeover of Twitter, it felt like the beginning of a saga rather than the end of it. While the Tesla chief told his 107m followers that the purchase would be an “accelerant” towards his vision of an “everything app”, Musk’s lawyers [...]
Quantum investments buoyed by government interest despite shaky markets October 5, 2022 Investments in quantum startups have been buoyed by increasing government support worldwide, despite a worsening economic climate, the boss of the UK’s only listed quantum investor has said today. The London-listed fund, which floated at the end of 2021, has also seen a “significant” uptick in the quality and number of potential investee companies coming [...]