The current global energy crisis, triggered by a mix of energy supply and transmission system constraints and generator maintenance challenges, has challenged digital infrastructure operators with energy price increases, increased electricity carbon emissions factors, and reduced energy security. As external events gyrate energy markets, governments and energy suppliers are taking an “all hands-on deck” […]

After nearly 50 years of membership, on 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom formally left the European Union (EU), some four years after the Brexit referendum. This extended period of regulatory harmony leaves the UK (for now) as the EU’s the most closely aligned “third country”, including from a cyber security perspective. This common history leaves plenty of […]

The past 12 months have seen the runners and riders of the cloud market rocked by economic uncertainty, which in some cases has led to some notably downbeat financial results being reported as enterprise users looked to scale back their cloud use for money-saving reasons. At the same time, the government’s cloud strategy has […]

If customers were demanding before the pandemic, the increased need for online shopping and digital retail during lockdowns has made them even harder to handle. The past year has seen firms which have never before considered being online taking to digital in a bid to change with the times. A drop-off in some types […]

Despite ongoing initiatives to give people the digital skills they need for both the workplace and modern living, there is still a significant skills shortage in UK tech. More young people may be looking to technology as a subject they want to pursue, but for those in the tech sector, projects have been put […]

What is surveillance capitalism? Surveillance capitalism is the monetization of data captured through monitoring people’s movements and behaviors online and in the physical world. Consumer surveillance is most commonly used for targeted marketing and advertising. The term surveillance capitalism was first introduced by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney in July 2014, in Monthly […]

The UK tech sector will end the year leading Europe, retaining its position as the main challenger to the US and China. This is amidst a global backdrop of difficult economic conditions, according to figures from Dealroom for the Digital Economy Council, part of the Department for Culture, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS). During […]

Challenger bank Atom has made a four-day working week permanent after a successful trial over the past year. In November 2021, the app-based bank introduced a four-day working week for its then 430 employees, with no change on salaries. This came after flexible working, introduced during the Covid-19 lockdown, proved a success. Now, the […]

The government has disclosed the termination of the “Help to grow: Digital” scheme, which gave funding to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to buy technology. Firms now have less than two months to apply for funding under the Help to Grow: Digital scheme. A statement from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy […]

The extension of the IR35 reforms to the private sector in April 2021 came coupled with a promise that for the first 12 months the government would be taking a “light-touch” approach to enforcing the rules. For this reason, one might have been forgiven for thinking 2022 would be something of a quiet year […]